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This issue of Creativerly is sponsored by Popt, a fresh take on mobile note-taking: private, fast, fun, yet packing more smarts than meets the eye.

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Back in August, I published a post called "Seeding for creativity" on my personal blog, in which I wrote about Sublime, and app I have been trying out for the past couple of weeks. It has been a while since I looked into a new app, especially in the realm of Sublime, which is a bit of note-taking, bookmarking, synthesizing, as well as building up a community knowledge base, as you create a profile and can follow others, and what they are sharing on the platform. I used the free but limited version of Sublime for most of the time while testing it, but invested in a yearly subscription two weeks ago, in order to experience it fully. And so far, I really like the experience.

To get started quickly, I imported all the highlights I captured with Readwise, as Sublime offers a Readwise integration. Now, I can act on those highlights, since when I click on one in Sublime, it immediately shows me similar thoughts, ideas, notes, bits, and pieces, captured by other Sublime users, which means if a single highlight I had captured sparked an idea to write a new post, I can immediately dive into the topic by exploring similar bits of information. So, all of a sudden my Readwise highlights that have been sitting there for months, waiting to be processed, became a living library of connected ideas.

And this got me excited.

I still need to spend some more time with Sublime, and actually leverage it while working on new posts and projects, but I am already taking notes for a potential post about Sublime, and I keep track of them in, you guessed it right, Sublime.

I keep you posted about my experience.

And now, enjoy this week's newsletter!

Tiny macOS utility apps I love – Part 6

This is part 5 of my Tiny macOS utility apps I love series. Here you can find: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, and Part 5.

It has been some time. Therefore, I am beyond excited to bring the sixth part of one of Creativerly's favorite content series', Tiny macOS utility apps I love. In the previous part, I wrote about Squash, Kompressor, and PhotoBulk, three handy and simple apps for quick, easy, and powerful image editing, helping you to convert, resize, compress, rename, and even apply filters to a batch of images. So, while the previous post of this series had a dedicated focus across the three apps I featured, I picked the three apps of this post randomly.

One of them feels like a swiss army knife, packed with loads and loads of features to enhance your macOS experience, another one helps you find important documents, correspondence, photos, image files, and more super fast, and the third one gives you a one-click camera check before you enter your next call, right from your menu bar.

Let us get into it!

Read the whole post here:

Tiny macOS utility apps I love – Part 6
The sixth part of Tiny macOS utility apps I love focuses on apps to enhancing your macOS experience, helping you finding files fast, and quickly checking your camera before your next call.
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Fresh Updates & News

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With the newest Vivaldi update, you get the possibility to take full control of the look and feel of the tab bar, so you can pick the tools you want, and decide where to place them. The result of this customization options is a tab bar that looks and works exactly the way you need it. Additionally, Vivaldi lets you tune the entire interface, as you can edit the address bar and the status bar, place the side bar on the left or right, build themes with your colors, assign keyboard shortcuts, and more.

Besides that, this update introduces the tab button, which is a single, unified plae to find, switch, and recover tabs without hunting through different menus. The menu which opens up after clicking on the tab buttons presents you with a search, so you can simply start typing and filter across your open tabs, synced tabs, and your recently closed ones.

In case you want to read through all the changes, updates, and improvement Vivaldi has shipped with this update, check out the linked post above.

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Framer introduced Design Pages →

Last week, Framer shipped one of its biggest updates ever. Until now, loads of designers defaulted to the workflow of designing the website first in design tools like Figma or Sketch, and then rebuilding that design within Framer. But as Framer became increasingly more advanced, I saw myself skipping the design phase, and directly building the website in Framer. Since Framer was not built to be a design tool, that experience sometimes felt a bit clunky. With the newest update, this is a thing of the past though, thanks to the introduction of Design Pages.

With Design Pages, users get access to a new way to design and iterate directly in Framer, which means Framer turns from being a web builder into a true design tool. Design Pages offer vector editing, P3 colors, image exporting, advanced masking, and a lot more. This gives you the freedom to experiment and play without having to thing about responsiveness. But still, you can turn any iteration into a web page with a single click.

Mental Wealth

❯ Ideas Arise Through Action – “A common question I get from readers is how I generate my ideas. Do they usually come from books? From articles? From conversations? From good ole contemplation?”

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❯ Do we really need breathwork gurus to tell us how to breathe? – “Not so long ago, breathing teachers weren’t easy to find. Locating an instructor required venturing into niche, New Age spaces where gurus would lead people through ‘holotropic breathwork’ or advanced yoga techniques. Now, professional breathers seem to be everywhere, especially on social media. Appearing in bamboo forests or near freezing rivers, these ‘breathfluencers’ make big promises, claiming that intentional breathing grants access to the ‘control panel’ of the body and mind, which modulates the immune system, releases tension, improves focus, balances emotions, heals trauma and awakens our inner vitality. According to Wim Hof, one of the world’s best-known breathing teachers, learning to intentionally inhale and exhale can allow us to ‘control the life force’ and make us ‘the alchemist of life itself’. But what do such claims really mean, and is there any truth to them?”

❯ Does AI actually boost productivity? The evidence is murky – “There’s been much talk recently – especially among politicians – about productivity. And for good reason: Australia’s labour productivity growth sits at a 60-year low.”

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Appendix

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❯ Quick Bits

Thank you to the sponsor of this issue, Popt, a fresh take on mobile note-taking: private, fast, fun, yet packing more smarts than meets the eye.

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