Cognitive Productivity with macOS

Cognitive Productivity with macOS

Luc P. Beaudoin
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Table of Contents

FRONT MATTER›

  • About the Screencasts and Extras Available Via This Book
  • Why Read This Book?
  • About the Author
  • About CogZest Books

Part 1: Self-Governance›

  • Introduction
  • Principle 1: Lead Yourself with Knowledge
    • Consider Covey’s Three Habits of Independence
    • You Are an Information Processor
    • Types of Information you Process
    • Information-processing Concepts and Vocabulary
    • You Are a Value Maker
    • Invaluable Wake Up Calls
    • A Mission Statement that Reflects the End of Your Life
    • Let Your Dreams Influence You
    • Leading Values
    • Values are Motivators
    • Free Resources for Exploring your Values
    • Your Information-Processing Should Serve You Well
  • Principle 2: Manage Your Cognitive Life Mindfully
    • Manage Your Projects
    • Using Project Folder Templates in Finder
    • Using Outliners to Create: OmniOutliner
    • Planning in OmniOutliner
    • Developing a Resource Specification in OmniOutliner
    • Outlining in OmniOutliner
    • Managing Personal Projects with OmniFocus
    • Manage Shared Projects with Merlin Project
    • Manage Your Knowledge Sources
    • Source-Management Problems and Questions
    • Important Things to Keep in Mind about Archiving
    • Naming and Tagging Files for Later Use
    • Managing Web Content: Overview
    • Archiving Your PDF Files
    • EagleFiler
    • Using Bibliography Managers Designed for macOS
    • Using Information Management Databases
    • Evernote
    • DEVONthink
    • Quickly Accessing Local Sources
    • Accessing Files with Spotlight
    • Accessing PDFs with Papers
    • Accessing Resources with Launchers
    • Accessing Linked Items with Hookmark
    • Manage your Attention (Your Information-Processing Time)
    • Timing App
    • mySelfQuantifier
    • Reviewing Time Spent in Deep Work
    • Reviewing Time Spent on Each of Your Projects
    • Reviewing Time Spent per Activity

Part 2: Productive Information Processing›

  • Principle 3: Assess Analytically
    • About this Chapter
    • Helpfulness: A Pragmatic Concept to Drive Assessment
    • CUPA: Caliber, Utility, Potency and Appeal
    • The Caliber of the Resource
    • Basic CRAAP Test
    • Assessing Arguments
    • Common problems in argumentation
    • Alarm Bell Clappers
    • General Epistemic Criteria
    • Tips for Expert Critical Reading
    • Productive Discussions about Knowledge Resources
    • Screencasts about Assessing and Recording Caliber
    • The Utility of a Knowledge Resource
    • Screencasts about Assessing and Recording Utility
    • The Potency of a Knowledge Resource
    • Example: The Computer Revolution in Philosophy by Aaron Sloman
    • The Aims of Science
    • Conceptual Analysis
    • Imagination
    • The Mind as a Structured Control System
    • Monitors and motive generators
    • The Potency of Software
    • Screencasts about Assessing and Recording Potency
    • The Appeal of a Knowledge Resource
    • CUP’A: Caliber, Utility, Potency and Appeal: Values
  • Principle 4: Surf Strategically
    • Surfing a document
    • Speed Reading Software
    • Tips for Browsing the Web with Safari
    • Accessing Web Pages with a Text Expansion Utility like TextExpander
    • Surfing with RSS Feeds
    • Reeder: A Great RSS Feed Reeder
    • An RSS Feed Reader Is Not a Silver Bullet
    • Bookmarking Web Services
    • Pinboard
    • Using Spillo, a Pinboard Bookmarked Page Reader
    • A Possible Ironic Benefit of Using Bookmarking Tools
    • Using Readkit, a Powerful News and Bookmarked Page Reader
    • Why do I Classify Using RSS and Bookmarking Software as Surfing Rather than Delving?
    • Creating a PDF from a Web Page
    • Creating a Navigable Table of Contents in a PDF Document
    • Converting Images of Documents into PDFs with Selectable Text
  • Principle 5: Delve Deeply
    • About Delving
    • Delving with Preview
    • Basic Highlighting in Preview
    • Quickly Highlighting Text
    • Systematically Using Highlight Colors in Preview
    • Highlight Inspector in Preview
    • Limitations of Highlighting in Preview
    • Tagging Text with Highlights in Preview
    • Text Notes in Preview
    • Expandable Notes
    • Delving PDFs with Skim
    • Basics of Multi-Color Highlighting with Notes
    • Basics of Systematically Highlighting with Skim
    • Tagging in Skim
    • Delving Books with iBooks
    • Note-Taking
    • Note-taking in the app of your choice with Hookmark
    • Linking your notes (in a nutshell)

Part 3: Mastery›

  • Principle 6: Practice Productively
    • Mastering-Lists: Lists of Knowledge Gems to Master
    • What Productive Practice App Do You Use?
    • Overview of Anki
    • Smarter Terminology for Practicing with Instillers (“Flashcards”)
    • Importing the Cognitive Productivity for macOS Sample Anki Deck
    • Instill Anything: The Q/A Template
    • Instilling Concepts: Concept Template
    • Instilling Skills: The Procedure Template
    • Instilling Names: The Name Template
    • Rescheduling Challenges (“Cards”)
    • Suspending Challenges (“Cards”)
    • Reviewing your Practice: Anki’s Statistics
    • Practicing on iOS with Anki Mobile
    • Synchronizing Anki Between Mac and iPhone
    • Overview of Anki Mobile (Anki for iOS)
    • How to Export Anki Content (Instillers) from your Mac to your iPhone via iTunes
    • How to Import Anki Content from Your iPhone to Your Mac via iTunes
  • Principle 7: Apply Knowledge
    • On Assessing the Utility of Thinking through a Problem with Knowledge
    • The Challenges of Applying Knowledge
    • Transfer of learning: The problems of inert knowledge
    • Preparation for Future Learning and Transfer In
    • Learning from Examples
    • The Case of Michael Stone
    • The March of Folly
    • Sexual Selection and Other Under-Appreciated Beauties
    • Strategies for Applying Knowledge
    • Mental Models
    • Reviews
    • Stoic Evening Retrospective Meditation Adapted for Applying Knowledge
    • Stoic Morning Meditation Adapted for Applying Knowledge
    • Why Does Reviewing Work?
    • Cognitive Task Lists for Creative Off-line Problem-Solving
    • Software for Writing and Accessing Cognitive Tasks
    • Nurture Your Fondness and Admiration of Powerful Structuring Ideas
    • Powerful Structuring Ideas for the Development and Marketing of Potent Cognitive Productivity Apps
    • John Gruber’s Advice on Marketing New Apps
    • Riding the Technology Adoption Life Cycle
    • Other Strategies
    • Learning from Stories and Other Forms of Art

End Matter›

  • Acknowledgements
  • Extras Available on Leanpub’s Website
  • Legal

Notes›

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