Wunderwelten

Letzten Sonntag versuchte ich all das, was diesen für mich so besonderen Sommer ausmachte, zu vereinen. Es gelang, trotz einiger Hindernisse. Die Route war eine altbekannte: über die Königsschlösser, die Bleckenau zur Jägerhütte, dann runter zum Plansee, zum Boot. Heim […]

And now for something completely different

II am 61 years old – and in my (better) days (pride comes before a fall), I thought an e-mountain bike would only be relevant when I am very old, practically when I can hardly ride a bike anymore. Well, […]

Sorry for some mess

I am reorganising my site using some new plugins (and trashing others) so there are some weird things displayed – at the moment my menu is awkward, the posts seem to be ok. My main goal is to switch to […]

Martin Dougiamas: Moodle (or any Open*) as a political statement

When I first wrote this blogpost it was 2017. Revisiting I found it even more current. I did not change anything but added a summary. When I first watched the video from Martin Dougiamas keynote at Moodle moot 2017 in […]

Wikipedia to Markdown

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 […]

Scrintal Workflow

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 […]

PKM and Thomas Bayes – Tags vs Folders

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 […]

OpenCore Legacy Patcher gifted a brand new Macbook to me – and an iMac 27″. Sonoma 🥳!

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 […]

AI Fake News – Hallucinations

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 […]

Why I chose Apple Notes instead of Notion

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. […]