Category Archives: Personal Productivity

See also: PIM, Cognitive Styles, Visualization

Pruning for Output

Posted on July 13, 2022 by x28

The key of my workflow from ‘Zettelkasten’ notes to an output is probably to see which items need to be pruned. Continue reading →

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The Extended Mind

Posted on July 8, 2021 by x28

Offload the material and see it anew — great advice for using the “Extended Mind”.
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Automagical links?

Posted on January 17, 2020 by x28

Which kind of tools work for me and which do not, part 3. Think tools should not consume my attention with their autonomous creations, but help me sorting things out for myself.
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Some tools come with plenty of pre-selected ‘sand moulds’ for our thought contents. Maybe for some users, such offers may function as an idea generator or a creative muse. For others (like me) they do not work.
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Top ten tools

Posted on August 30, 2019 by x28

My top 10 tools: 1. Notepad, 2. QuiteRSS, 3. Twitter, 4. Condensr.de, 5. Wordpress, 6. Evernote, 7. gRSShopper, 8. FedWiki, 9. Diigo, 10. Slack
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What is Digital Literacy?

Posted on January 8, 2019 by x28

Responding to this: “What is Digital Literacy? — What impact does digital literacy have on your personal, professional, and spiritual* life? (*However you interpret this.) — Who are you? (context matters) — Licenses”
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More gRSShopper

Posted on October 12, 2018 by x28

I have played quite a lot with gRSShopper because I like it.
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Exploring gRSShopper

Posted on September 7, 2018 by x28

I knew that gRSShopper is able to harvest RSS feeds, but it is much more powerful than that.
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Seven habits of…

Posted on June 14, 2017 by x28

Seven habits make my workflow satisfying. In particular: pull over push, optimized for browse rather than search, and careless capturing but cultivating later. Continue reading →

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Tangible Associations

Posted on June 1, 2016 by x28

I understand now better how the “magic” of my tool works: it makes associations tangible. It turns elusive mental relationships into “hands on” experience, and it compensates for the abstractness of some thought links, with a drawn line “at our fingertips”.
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