Before I wrap for the evening and watch King James go ballistic on the Hornets, I thought I’d blog the piece of software I’m most excited about this year.
I’ve always enjoyed reading. And I’ve always felt an elephant was standing on my head when I would walk into a Barnes & Noble and realize there’s all of this information and no way I could ever read it all. As time went by, I understood that you don’t have to read everything to get the jist: Just get broad enough you sound competent around yuppies and know the hell out of your chosen field.
Sounds easy, right? Well, I could still probably spend the rest of my life covering visual mapping and all of the topics influential to it. Another ‘screw it, the hell with visual mapping, let’s play video games’ moment brought to you by our sponsor, ‘feeling of overwhelm’.
Never one to back down from a bucket of fried chicken challenge, I’ve done everything I can to learn about speed-reading and faster ways of consuming information. But still, it takes time to summarize a book into those beautiful little chicken nuggets of value. Can you tell I haven’t eaten dinner yet?
That’s why I’m so damn excited about Context Organizer, which I just started playing with tonight. Now, we all know that I’m lazy when it comes to giving product description, so I defer to Brian Friedlander’s excellent post. According to Brian:
“Context Organizer you are able to quickly get the context of attached documents as well as web sites right within MindManager 8, that are visually displayed as topics and subtopics.”
I’ll add that it also works with MindManager 7 because that’s what I’m using on this computer (Don’t get your knickers in a twist Mindjet, I’m using MM8 on my other computer. You know I’ve got love for ya! Holla.). Further, it’ll summarize a document you are hyperlinked to from within MindManager.
I summarized a website and 2 PDFs… and found that I can get immense topical value out looking through the output. In fact, I think the output from Context Organizer is very similar to what speed-reading programs are trying to get you to pick up on.
A perfect reason to do absolutely no more work tonight.
Good Night and God Bless.
You can get a free 21 day trial of the software at Context Discovery.
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