How I wrote five books in two languages in four months

Writing books with Affinity and BoD

...and why this is not a miracle, but the result of a clear strategy

For a long time, writing books was seen as something tedious - a lonely project that drags on for months or even years. But what if you let go of this image? What if you rethink writing - with a clear focus, well thought-out processes and targeted use of AI?

In my new book "Writing books 2.0 - a practical guide for authors in the age of AI" I describe exactly this path. A path that has enabled me to write five books in just four months, publish them in two languages - and not accept any loss of quality compared to traditional publishing.

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Writing books 2.0 - practical guide for authors in the age of AI

Cover: Writing books 2.0 - a practical guide for authors in the age of AI

This book does not provide speculative visions of the future, but a well-founded, practical answer from the everyday life of an author who writes with AI himself - and deliberately focuses not on automation, but on autonomy. "Writing books 2.0" is aimed at anyone who is thinking about writing their own book - or is already in the process of doing so - and is wondering how modern tools such as ChatGPT, AI image generators or translation aids can be put to good use. The focus is not on "finished AI products", but on a holistic approach: AI as a tool, humans as authors.

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Ollama meets Qdrant: A local memory for your AI on the Mac

Memory for local AI with Ollama and Qdrant

Local AI with memory - without cloud, without subscription, without detour

In a previous articles I explained how to configure Ollama on the Mac install. If you have already completed this step, you now have a powerful local language model - such as Mistral, LLaMA3 or another compatible model that can be addressed via REST API.

However, the model only "knows" what is in the current prompt on its own. It does not remember previous conversations. What is missing is a memory.

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Local AI on the Mac: How to install a language model with Ollama

Local AI on the Mac has long been practical - especially on Apple-Silicon computers (M series). With Ollama you get a lean runtime environment for many open source language models (e.g. Llama 3.1/3.2, Mistral, Gemma, Qwen). The current Ollama version now also comes with a user-friendly app that allows you to set up a local language model on your Mac at the click of a mouse. In this article you will find a pragmatic guide from installation to the first prompt - with practical tips on where things traditionally go wrong.

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Health tips (not only) for FileMaker users

Health tips

The development of the gFM-Business ERP software has been a little slower than usual over the last year and a half because, as the developer of the software, I had to deal with some strange symptoms of illness where it was not so easy to find the cause. Even though conventional medicine was no real help in my case, with the active support of a few alternative practitioners and a holistic dentist, I was able to find the causes and eliminate my problems. Because the results of this research are so interesting, I have decided to write a short article about it here so that you as a reader can also benefit from it. Below you will find my top favorites as pure tips, I do not earn anything from the referral and do not use any ref links.

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Sending e-mails fails with T-Online and Speedport W 724V

The things you experience when you simply want to send an e-mail with Mac OS X 10.10 "Yosemite" in a foreign WLAN! For example, that it doesn't work with any of the SMTP servers set up, even though sending emails on the home network is completely problem-free. Even more puzzling was that another MacBook Pro under Mac ... Read more

SEO: Why a blog is always an asset.

Wordpress guide: How to set up a new blogI am often asked by entrepreneurs: "Do we need a blog?". People also often ask me: "Do I need a blog?". My answer is almost always: "Of course!" - I am happy to explain why I think so at this point. But first there is the banal question: What is a blog anyway and what functions does it perform? To a large extent, this question already contains the answer to the first question. This is because a blog usually performs several functions and is much more than just a platform on which articles can be written. From the perspective of an SEO (search engine optimizer), a blog is a valuable tool for making content available and bundling it from several channels. So what does a blog have to do with search engine optimization? I would like to explain this in more detail in this article.

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Social networks - Twitter, Facebook and co. - important in the marketing mix?

Social media marketing - Twitter, Facebook, VZ networks.Having been in the computer business for around 20 years now, I am familiar with the often hesitant way in which many companies deal with new technologies. However, this article is not really about brand new technologies, but about social networks such as Facebook and Twitter. These have been showing a steady (strong) increase in user numbers for several years now - according to its own figures, the platform had almost 14 million users in Germany in February 2011. Twitter has significantly lower user numbers, but is also growing steadily. This means that the most widely used social networks have an enormous reach - for comparison, the BILD newspaper, for example, has a circulation of around 3 million copies per day. Reason enough to take a closer look at social networks.

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