tool – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

Using an SD Card Drive of a Notebook as an Escape Pod Backup Drive

2025-02-03

If your notebook has an SD card drive, how about turning it into a separate micro-storage drive?
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ChatGPT as Coach

2025-01-04

Judging by some really helpful conversations with ChatGPT, yes, it can be used as a coach, within reason.

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Just Press Record and Whisper Transcription for Local Voice Notes Transcriptions

2025-01-04

Using local tools to capture ideas as audio notes and transcribe them.
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Calisca – A witty, incisive editor improving blog posts with forceful precision

2024-12-10

With ChatGPT (or similar Generative AI tools), you're no longer just the lone writer grappling with drafts—you can have your own digital co-author, editor, or «re-writer.»
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Downloading mp3s from an Online Course

2024-12-10

Sometimes things can be remarkably simple.
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Free RSS Reader for Mac

2024-11-24

RSS readers are a great way to stay up-to-date with academic journals, blogs, YouTube videos, and much more.
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Subway Card Integration Done Right

2024-08-18

As someone who normally hates subways, I was really impressed by the Japanese subway system — and their IC cards.
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Google Translate in Travel

2024-08-17

Just a short shout-out to using Google Translate when you travel.
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Click-Bind Travel Notepad

2024-08-17

Having an alternative to travel information stored on a phone — a click-bind travel notepad.
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ChatGPT — From Hot or Not to Attractiveness Analyzer

2024-06-05

Given the impressive image recognition capabilities of Chat GPT 4o, you can ask it for honest feedback on photos and other images — and how to improve. And if you create a dedicated ChatGPT instance, it can even be nice to a meth addict.
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This is a private blog showing my opinions. If you have an issue with what I write here, either don’t read it or talk to me directly. Don’t waste your time — or mine — dragging my employer into matters where they hold no authority.

The institution I work for, or rather the people officially representing it, have already distanced themselves from this blog. I find this unnecessary, as I’ve clearly stated in the «About this Blog» section that this is a personal blog.

Frankly, I have nothing but contempt for those who lack the backbone to address their concerns directly and instead resort to passive-aggressive tattling to others. Such behavior strikes me as not only cowardly, but also spineless, gutless, and wholly unprincipled. Moreover, these efforts are as pathetic as they are futile.

That said, I might listen if you present compelling arguments and evidence, as constructive feedback is always welcome. Who knows? We might even both gain something valuable from the interaction.

A comment for those seeking to use this site for personal gain: Given the increase in requests, let me be clear. I write on this blog because I want to. It’s my hobby, my playground. Sometimes people point me to interesting products/services and I write about them. But any request regarding ads or sponsored placements ends up the trash without a reply. And if you think something would be of interest, differentiate yourself from the spammers by referring to a posting — in an intelligent way. (I get enough auto-generated mails to identify them immediately.)

BTW, posts can get updated after I published them if I spot spelling errors (not a native speaker) or think a different wording might improve precision and clarity.

This blog is not focused on a single topic, or method. As long as it is relevant to improving creativity (or allowing it in the first place), it's fair game.
Some postings on this blog deal with freedom, as I think that we need freedom of thought, of speech, of association, etc. pp. to solve mankind's problems. Thus, some postings may seem a bit remote when it comes to organizing creativity. Freedom is, however, the bedrock of creativity.
The heterogeneity of the postings can make reading this blog a bit cumbersome, at least if you are only interested in one topic. You can either use the search function (above), or use the categories or the tags to narrow down the postings you see.