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.
Home is where the website lives
Over the years, I have constructed several WordPress websites, slowly getting better at it. I…
Books and references
In Philosophia, virtually all data are stored in texts. Not in data sets, images, graphs,…
Pretty pictures
I love graphics. Always have. Back in the days when we did not think so…
Wicked boxes
This is the last of my posts on templates to use with Media Wiki. With…
Wicked fonts
There are several ways you can work with fonts on Media Wiki. There is a…
Wiki templates
Wikimedia uses templates. These are bits of preprogrammed HTML which can be referred to by…
Wicked colours
Basic mark-up format This requires some very simple HTML-like coding. It is not difficult. To…
Pretty Wiki
Creating articles in Wikimedia means using the very, very basic ‘wysiwyg’ editor. Or write the…
DIY Wikipedia
Wikipedia runs on MediaWiki. My wiki does too. Installing mediawiki I use a third party…
Mindmapping
I cannot remember when I first discovered mind mapping. The technique is similar to functional…
Better tools tomorrow
This is the first post for the tools category. The idea is to collect useful…
