Category Archives: Personal Productivity

See also: PIM, Cognitive Styles, Visualization

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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Inspiring or distracting?

Posted on December 11, 2019 by x28

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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Im-/Export from/to other think tools

Posted on May 26, 2016 by x28

Comparing two other think tools with my own tool one can say that they are rather suited as the big long-term storage “cupboard” while my own tool is more like the “table” where things are put for a temporary large overview.
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Physical overhead of Mindmapping

Posted on March 4, 2016 by x28

While I have often argued for Cmapping and against simple hierarchical mindmapping, there are benefits that mitigate the inherent problem of such
nested hierarchies, They may help capturing the structure of a talk while listening.
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