Welcome to Creativityist — a website devoted to finetuning your Mac, your workflow, and your soul to develop your creativity. I hope you’ll consider subscribing to the free RSS feed. Or, follow on Twitter: @creativityist.This is part of a short series on Creative Tools. Other posts in the series (so far) include: Creative Tools: Hardware.
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“It’s not the writing part that’s hard. What’s hard is sitting down to write.” – Steven Pressfield in The War of Art
Sometimes ideas are pressing on my finger tips, demanding that I allow them to burst out into written words.
Usually not.
Most of the time, ideas form inside, where I guard them until I think they [...]
Maybe I need to temper my recent ravings about Slife. Why you ask? Because according to Slife, I can type at about 1326 words per minute. I’m a decent typer…but not that decent.
This morning I was working on a project in Scrivener. I wrote 7 paragraphs, and according to Scrivener, 420 words. Later in [...]
My use of Scrivener has been increasing of late. I’ve had a few different projects that require the ongoing collection and shaping of ideas. Yojimbo is my general idea bucket, but when I am focusing in on a specific project, Scrivener works much better for collecting, arranging and developing ideas and research in one place.
My [...]
This is part of an ongoing series called Blinders where I explore some of the ways I streamline my computer workflows to minimize distractions.
I’ve always had a soft spot in my heart for the old 12″ G4 PowerBook. (That’s a guilt-free way of saying that I coveted one every time I saw one in the [...]
I’m deeply committed to Yojimbo, but I’ve been flirting with Evernote for about three months now. Last week, Evernote rolled out a beautiful new iPhone app with the launch of the app store. Here are a few early impressions of the iPhone app:
It looks fantastic. It is fun to look at, and easy to understand.
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I’m an avid reader. I set a goal each year to read an average of a book a week. I enjoy reading, but it is also a discipline of creative work. Ideas rarely initiate out of nowhere. Some of my most creative thoughts cascade out of other ideas, and reading provides me with a torrent [...]
Yesterday, Lifehacker linked to a post on MacApper highlighting a few Quicksilver interfaces. Now, before I rave about my new Quicksilver interface, let me give a little love to MacApper — I’m now a subscriber.
Now, on to SilverFlow. This is a lovely plugin that is modeled after, well, CoverFlow. The icons whiz past as [...]
I’ve been evaluating Evernote for the last few weeks. I like it. A lot. So much that I’m tempted to change over from Yojimbo.
But not yet.
Here’s what I like:
Without a doubt, my favorite feature is Evernote’s ability to recognize text in an image and make it searchable. I can snap a picture with my [...]
This is part six of a five(!) part series on capturing everything. Previous entries:
capture everything: buckets
capture everything: tasks
capture everything: ideas
capture everything: out and about
capture everything: the incubator
Jott is a handy little service that lets you call a toll-free number and speak a message. Jott will transcribe and deliver that message to someone else via [...]
