Oblique Strategies App

Quick Links: You can view the oblique strategies app/site at http://obliquestrategies.ca or http://obstrat.net.

What are Oblique Strategies?

Oblique is an app that helps you get out of creativity blocks. About Oblique is an interpretation of Oblique Strategies for makers, designers and developers who are creating products for the world.

From Wikipedia:

Oblique Strategies (subtitled Over One Hundred Worthwhile Dilemmas) is a deck of 7×9 cm printed cards in a black container box, created by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt and first published in 1975. Each card offers an aphorism intended to help artists (particularly musicians) break creative blocks.

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The Idea

I came across oblique strategies a few years ago, and have always loved the idea. I didn’t actually purchase a deck, because it was quite expensive. Also, I like digital things. I created a simple WordPress plugin a while ago, but wanted an app I could use on my smartphone.

The Site

Oblique Strategies Pdf

This is a mobile web app, so try visiting it from your mobile device. It will also work on any desktop browser.

You can view app at http://obliquestrategies.ca or http://obstrat.net.

Tech Notes

  • HTML5 Mobile Boilerplate saves you a ton of work by gathering all the different meta tags, icons for your web apps, CSS reset/defaults all in one place.
  • Random fonts from Google Web Fonts.
  • Faves stored using HTML5 localStorage
  • Uses HTML5 application cache to allow the app to work offline

You can view the source code for this site on GitHub: https://github.com/nomatteus/oblique-strategies

Oblique Strategies Ios App

View this project in my “work” section: http://ruten.ca/projects/oblique-strategies/