IndieWeb Carnival July 2024: Tools
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Tools influence what we can create, and how we think about creating. With good tools, we can focus on making something detailed and delightful – art, essays, furniture, food, and more. With bad tools, creativity is hindered; stages of the creative process may become a burden.
With that in mind, I am excited to announce the theme for the July 2024 IndieWeb Carnival: tools.
Over the next month, I invite you to write a blog post about tools and how they do, or have, influenced your creative process. You can write about tools in the context of any creative practice you have: writing, acting, drawing, painting, woodworking, cooking, coding, singing, VTubing, or whatever is applicable to you.
Here are a few prompts that may ignite your imagination:
- What is a tool that you love to use? Why do you love to use it?
- Are there any tools you use that have special meaning? Why does a particular tool have meaning for you?
- What tools do you wish existed to aid your creative process?
- Have you ever made a tool for yourself? If you have, what were the results?
- What characteristics of a tool make you feel delighted?
- When, and how, do you adopt new tools in your creative process?
This edition of the Carnival runs from July 1st to July 31st. I will curate a list of posts submitted to this month’s Carnival at the bottom of this post.
I am excited to see what you write!
If you participate, please let me know via email at readers [at] jamesg [dot] blog so that I can add a link to your post here.
Posts are listed in reverse chronological order of submission. This means that the most recently received posts are at the top of the list.
Entries
- A world run by tools by Tom
- Choosing Tools by Tantek
- Instruments for Empathy by Brad
- Tools and time by James (me!)
- Using personal weeknotes as a tool for attention by Tracy
- IndieWebbing from the couch by Claudine
- Digital Photography Tools by Khürt
- Writing Slowly by Richard
- Digital and Physical by Jamie
- like a tourist by Jess
- Not My Grandfather’s Tools by Paolo
- What is best tool? by Britt
- Wellbeing Tools or, A Long Overdue Apology by Westley
- Home-cooked, situated software by Juha-Matti
- IndieWeb Carnival: Tools by Zinzy
- Crafting My World One Tool at a Time by Marisabel
- Tool U Want by Nick
- Tools by Martín
- Everything is a Tool by Arkdae
- My Computer Talks to Me, and I’m Not Hallucinating by RDK
- Tools are not systems – interactive lectures done right by Bob
- Tools that Spark Joy by TechTea
- After a year of Helix by Vanitas
- Making Your Own Tools by Tom
- Tools by Steve
- I Marry/Adopt My Tools by Sara
- Tools, How #Obsidian Cured My Depressions, Saved my Job and Gave Me Purpose by Lou
- Get Smart by Jeremy
- Tools by Andrei
- Tools I love using by Chris