Thinking tools
Researchers need tools. To organise, structure, remember, annotate, compare, trace, explore and document ideas. Particularly when the researcher in question (me) cannot rely on memory as much as when she was much much younger. This blog documents my attempts to improve my workflow by outsourcing the boring bits to software.
Over the years, I have constructed several WordPress websites, slowly getting better at it. I am not a website builder and do not speak any …
In Philosophia, virtually all data are stored in texts. Not in data sets, images, graphs, video or audio, although audio books and vlogs on philosophy …
I love graphics. Always have. Back in the days when we did not think so much about digital rights and things, I used to collect …
This is the last of my posts on templates to use with Media Wiki. With every template I import, some others get included, so …
There are several ways you can work with fonts on Media Wiki. There is a default font set associated with the Wiki installation (to …
Wikimedia uses templates. These are bits of preprogrammed HTML which can be referred to by name. Very useful for replacing long editing instructions, for instance …
Basic mark-up format
This requires some very simple HTML-like coding. It is not difficult. To make a word have colour, use: <span style=”color:hex triplet or colour name”>text</span>
<span …
Creating articles in Wikimedia means using the very, very basic ‘wysiwyg’ editor. Or write the HTML-style markup yourself. I do a bit of both.
Headings
MarkupDescription==Text==Level …
Wikipedia runs on MediaWiki. My wiki does too.
Installing mediawiki
I use a third party installer which is packaged with my website hosting …
I cannot remember when I first discovered mind mapping. The technique is similar to functional decomposition, which I was introduced to during the 80s, when …
This is the first post for the tools category. The idea is to collect useful tools, insights, books, procedures – whatever helps when …
