Recently, I’ve been blogging mostly about my cognitive productivity R&D and Discontinuities: Love, Art, Mind. However, I’m also actively doing R&D on sleep onset, insomnolence and perturbance (“emotion”). My colleagues and I will present three posters at the World Sleep Congress which will be held in Vancouver in September. Continue reading We Will Present Three Research Posters at the World Sleep Congress in Vancouver, September 2019
Track Your Knowledge Work Quickly and Precisely with Timing App and Hook
A few years ago, I published the mySelfQuantifier time tracking system. This system is distinctive in that it is based on cognitive science. It involves a free spreadsheet and documentation. It is meant to be used in combination with time tracking software like Daniel Alm’s Timing app.
Now that we at CogSci Apps have published the Hook productivity app for macOS, it is possible for you to quickly reference and access specific documents on which you’ve been working.
Continue reading Track Your Knowledge Work Quickly and Precisely with Timing App and Hook
Brief Response to Massimo Pigliucci’s Question about Over-ascription of “Consciousness”
My tweets often end up being mini blog posts, so I thought I’d answer here instead. But only briefly. This is not a complete answer — just a few thoughts.
Hook Mac App Hit “Golden Master”—About Hook’s Past, Present and Future
Earlier this month, the latest CogSci Apps invention, Hook productivity app for macOS, exited “public beta” and became an official release. It is now at version 1.1.1. You can read the announcement on the Hook productivity blog.
The response to Hook has been quite favorable. Early adopters recognize it as a very original and useful Mac app which has a simple but powerful user interface. For example, Cult of Mac wrote: Continue reading Hook Mac App Hit “Golden Master”—About Hook’s Past, Present and Future
Francophone Sleep Lovers! Don’t Sleep in on Saturday: Tune into Radio-Canada Interview About Sleep
CBC Radio host, Mireille Langlois, will interview me and a clinical psychologist live on Radio-Canada (CBC Radio French) about the quality of sleep. We will focus particularly on seasonal (summer) challenges and issues.
The interview will be broadcast live throughout Western Canada on Saturday morning at 8:25 AM Pacific. But if you do sleep in, you can catch a podcast of the interview later or listen from Radio-Canada’s website.
Drawing Diagrams in the Head and with Technology: Benefits, Cognitive Mechanisms, Artificial Intelligence, Apps, and Sleep Onset Dreaming
When they think about note-taking, most people think about textual notes. But it’s also often important to take graphical notes. It’s tricky to develop cognitively productive workflows for note-taking in general, and graphical note taking in particular. An example of the latter point is the following topic on the Mac Power Users forum:
Adding diagrams to Zettelkastens: (Luhmann) Note-taking App that can form a Quick Access Knowledge Base.
This blog post sheds some light on the importance of diagramming from a cognitive science perspective. It discusses problems in understanding mental representations underlying the interpretation and production of diagrams. It explains why people don’t take as many graphical notes as they should, and what they can do about it. And then it goes (or you go) to sleep.
That’s a lot of ground to cover in a brief blog post. However, the post contains links to some extremely interesting articles. If you read the source materials, I’m sure you will find they stretch your imagination.
Continue reading Drawing Diagrams in the Head and with Technology: Benefits, Cognitive Mechanisms, Artificial Intelligence, Apps, and Sleep Onset Dreaming
A Musical Celebration of Spring and Love Chez Nous
Our friends, Huguette Lacourse and Michèle Desponts, blessed us at home on Saturday with their wonderful performance of wonderful (mostly French) music.
Edith Piaf’s La vie en rose
Here Huguette sings Edith Piaf’s, “La vie en rose”, accompanied by Michèle:
Continue reading A Musical Celebration of Spring and Love Chez Nous
Why Most People Don’t Take as Many Notes as They Should, and What They Can Do About It
I claim that people don’t take as many notes as they should, and that this interferes with their cognitive productivity. This article elaborates on the claim, and points to a CogSci Apps® invention my colleagues and I developed to address these issues. Continue reading Why Most People Don’t Take as Many Notes as They Should, and What They Can Do About It
Un samedi printanier musical: Oeuvres de Piaf et autres (chez nous); de Mozart, Morlock et autres (à l’annexe)
Samedi le 18 mai, nous célébrerons le printemps (cette verdeur qui nous entoure!) et l’art, dans toutes ses formes. Le jour, nous serons imprésario (ou au moins hôtes) d’un événement musical français. Le soir, on ira à un spectacle musical du Vancouver Symphony Orchestra: Mozart, Morlock et autres.
Entre temps, CogSci Apps et CogZest s’apprêtent à lancer de nouveaux produits.
Front Matter Podcast Interview about Cognitive Productivity with macOS and Hook
I was interviewed by Len Epp on the Leanpub Front Matter Podcast. Leanpub is the main bookstore on which my first two Cognitive Productivity books were published. Continue reading Front Matter Podcast Interview about Cognitive Productivity with macOS and Hook