tool – Page 23 – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

I’m a digital squirrel — what are you?

2013-07-05

My animal totem is a crazed squirrel that went digital, and I love it. Seriously, an information infrastructure that not only works but works very well.
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Warning: Do not store Circus Ponies Notebook files in DEVONthink

2013-06-19

A terrible bug that makes CPN files unusable. Occurs rarely and I suspect it occurs due to a saving error. (Update: Nope, also occurred outside of DEVONthink.)
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Dealing with Secondary Sources

2013-06-17

How do deal with articles citing other articles in an content outline -- which one do you add with which source information, and why?
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Workshop: Scientific Work — Writing #3 Re-Writing

2013-06-14

Third part of the writing series, here about perfection in texts, the importance of re-writing, how to do revisions and keeping older versions (which Scrivener makes effortless). Also: Recommended Literature.
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Workshop: Scientific Work — Ideas

2013-06-03

Scientific work needs ideas, but you cannot force them. Instead, prepare for them. Some suggestions, including when you have an idea but it does not fit.
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Low-Level Awareness Tool for Organizational Improvements

2013-05-29

A nice tool to collect ideas in an organization. Allows for planning and prioritization all in the same view. Simple but highly useful.
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How to start using DEVONthink

2013-05-22

DEVONthink is very powerful, but not exactly intuitive to use. Here are some suggestions that might get you going.
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Using Technology: Some Golden Rules

2013-05-01

Technology is simple. If follows a few basic rules. Here are the most important ones.
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Elance — Freelancer Site

2013-04-26

If you need to outsource some tasks of your creative project, this site might be very useful ... crucial even.
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Mobile Technology Upgrades — Having an iPod touch on your wrist and looking forward to the future

2013-04-10

Smart watches seem to be coming, well there's already a way to wear an iPod nano on your wrist. You image where this might go.
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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.