Hermann. Notes on my working life.
When I begin researching a topic I often start by reading WikiPedia. Unfortunately there is no direct download in Markdown format which is used in many programs I use. On MacOS some simple commands can be used to achieve this […]
As some of you may have noticed I transitioned from Obsidian to Scrintal for my personal knowledge management. As a first draw I want to share this video from Bianca Pereira explaining a workflow which is very similar to my […]
I am/was struggling with a well known problem: how to organize my knowledge? There are numerous recipes available, lately supported by computer software. I tried many of them – Notion, Obsidian, Logseq, Heptabase, Rem, Capacities, Kosmik, Muse, Scrintal. I tried […]
10 years ago (almost exactly) I invested a very significant amount of money (more than 3000 €, then!) to buy a MacBook Pro, the almost the best one available (quad core I7, 16 GB RAM, 1 TB SSD, Nvidia Geforce […]
Only lately I was in the mood for joking and sent a picture of my breakfast — a Müsli topped with the rest of the milk remaining from preparing my cappuccino to my daughter naming it “Cappucciüsli”. Being in a […]
This article could have been named “Notion vs Apple Notes vs Onenote vs Redmine” but it is no thorough comparison: this are very capable applications, each of them living in a different ecosystem, each with impressive strengths and some weaknesses. […]
For the ones in a hurry: YES, this worked for me, the stains on my MacBook Pro (Late 2013) display are gone completely. NO, you will not be bamboozled, fools day was two days ago. YES, do try this at […]
Spoiler alert: I am writing these lines with a pencil on my iPad, scribbling and/or typing on the onscreen keyboard. When I use a german word it is translated on the fly not leaving my editor or installing something. I […]
Lately I used the Forum Activity in Moodle to create a couple of activities centered about our “Safer Internet” initiative. Mainly I wanted the students to think about their own experience, their priorities using some service usually being of high […]
Using Elasticsearch for Mahara was a very fine experience. After reviving my Owncloud installation (it somehow went away after dist-upgrading to Ubuntu 18.04) I stumbled across this subject. Knowing myself and knowing how useful such an option would be I […]
