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We Cannot Have Too Much Information

Tuesday, April 20th, 2010
 
We are used to looking at information in a linear way. Typically when we read web pages and documents we are like hunters trying to spot the most valuable information that is hidden in the text.
 
Our mind directs us to filter information until we find the relevant pearls of wisdom we are searching for. The sifting through vast reams of content is not efficient and mostly tedious.
 
So the question is: what if we had an ability to quickly access the content according to our wishes? This could mean that  we could directly ask a retrieval system what we need and the system would give us relevant choices.
 
For example, if we were interested in a specific topic, the search would provide a rich selection of relevant summaries – not links only – directly pertaining to our interests.
 
So instead of getting a long list of links to documents containing our search term we would get a handy list of the most important excerpts! And all this without the need to analyze each link.
 
This way of using content makes a huge difference. Instead of being crushed by too much information to analyze, we have direct access only to information that is of immediate interest to us. No more we need to spend time on fruitless sifting and sorting. Instead we get the relevant information directly.
 
How this is possible? By organizing and indexing information according to the summaries. Very much similar to the way we used to access information using the back-of-the-book index. Only now we can build a web-based back-of-the-book index that serves as an intelligent shortcut to getting desired information quickly and accurately.

 

 * This mind map was produced using Comapping online collaborative mapping software with Context Organizer automatic summarization.

 
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Because the Internet is made of content…

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010
 
There is lots of content on the Internet. The Internet is made of publishers.
 
And everybody knows how to publish: blogs, portals, newspapers, books, magazines, on line conversations… 
 
So here is a practical question: is content strategy about publishing or about consuming information? It seems that they are like hand-and-glove pairing. But is there a fit?
 
We are all familiar with the concept of information overload. There is not enough time and bandwith to be able to absorb all the information that is chasing us.
 
My work on text mining and summarization suggests that great value can be dervided from intelligently compressing large text into a much smaller text. And if the smaller text tells us through the keywords and the key sentences what the large text contains in all its rich details, than we have the best of both worlds.
 
The summaries are those well versed guides. They expertly inform us what we should pay attention to. They provide us with context to make us conversant with the topics. And all of this is done quickly and without overloading our cognitive capacities.
 
I firmly believe that content should always come with a companion summary.  This is the reason that I advocate the use of summarization as a friendly service for both the publishers and the readers.

 

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A summary is worth a thousand of words

Thursday, August 28th, 2008
 
A summary is a shortened version of the original. The main purpose of such a simplification is to highlight the major points from the genuine (much longer) subject, e.g. a text, a film or an event. The aim is to help the audience get the gist in a short period of time. (Wikipedia)
 
The way we learn, remember and quickly recall has a strong relationship to the way we are able to process information without overloading our senses.
 
If our goal in understanding information is to quickly extract and convey meaning, then the use of summaries is essential. Summaries can be the key to understanding and reducing complex information to indispensable facts.
 
We can say that summaries are the bare models of thoughts and that summarized information represents the authorКјs best goals and intentions.

The act of instantly summarizing a web page can be an accelerator to quick understanding. By seeing the keywords in context, we, the readers, can quickly understand, connect and retain new information.

 
Summarization is relevant to all information workers, irrespective of their expertise.
 
When we read, we always have to parse the text. We read and re-read to extract the main statements. We underline important ideas and arguments according to the main statement. We work hard to assemble all the pertinent facts in logical order. And once all of this is done we then check if the summary reflects the original conclusions.
 
All of these hard and time consuming tasks can be greatly facilitated with the use of Context Organizer. With the click of a button, the essential keywords, sentences and context are revealed and highlighted. The keywords serve as a back-of-the-book index to the key statements and facts.
  
You may think about the Context Organizer summaries as an instant help in making sense by focusing on the key facts and conclusions only.
 
Context Organizer summaries allow busy professionals to save time.  It helps them to daily sift through copious amounts of information and rapidly review, compare and analyze information.
 
 
You can download and try out Context Organizer for free.
 
See the demos:
  • Instant Keywords and Summaries of Google Search resulst with 1 click:

Context Organizer Google Search Summarization Demo

  • Instant Keywords and Summaries of Web pages and documents with 1 click:

Context Organizer Web Pages demo  Demo

  • Turn web pages into MindManager maps with 1 click: 

Context Organizer for MindManager Demo

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Increase personal productivity with Context Organizer

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
 
Individuals using Context Organizer software have found a way to dramatically reduce information overload by summarizing the web pages, emails, and documents they are reading. 
 
The time wasted on searching, retrieving and analyzing information adds an often unexpected effort and price to our work.

From experience, we know that the costs of not finding information can be significant affecting collaboration, timely task completion, and decision-making.
 
Individuals using Context Organizer software have found a way to dramatically reduce information overload by summarizing the web pages, emails, and documents they are reading. 

The Context Organizer dashboard allows you to quickly summarize information from anywhere, organize it in thematic collections, and easily share it with others.

The time savings occur on many levels. First, you get an instant summary of what you are reading with emphasis on the most relevant keywords and context of use. Also, your Google and Live Search searches are automatically summarized so your web search review is hugely accelerated.

You are always in control deciding how much information and what kind of information is displayed at any time by using smart filters. This helps you with focusing only on the information that matters most to you. The summaries are clearly presented in a compelling visual format for ease and speed of understanding

You can easily share with your colleagues what’s important in documents and spare their time and effort from ploughing through unnecessary content.
 
Summarizing with Context Organizer can offer a unique solution that not only allows you to gain exceptional control of information, it also improves the clarity of your thoughts.
 
 
You can download and try out Context Organizer for free.
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The Context Organizer Method

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
Context Organizer’s power to visualize critical information is akin to creating on the spot maps to help you effortlessly navigate through web pages.  In an instant, large amounts of information are simplified and reduced to the most essential storyline, which is easy to understand and learn.
 
Context Organizer summaries simplify complex text into an organized, easy-to-understand visual format.
 
At a glance,you see the essential keywords and summaries. You do not need to read the full text of  web pages, emails and documents in order to know what they contain.
 
Context Organizer summaries facilitate the rapid discovery of ideas, simplify complex content, inspire creativity, and save enormous amounts of time and effort. With a simple visual presentation, users can immediately focus on the critical information and make decisions.
 
Context Organizer’s powerful filters enable easy exposure of desired information. The Short Summary instantly spotlights the most important conclusions saving you time and effort by discovering critical findings and eliminating information overload.
 
Convenient note taking allows you to effortlessly text mine to rapidly create your own documents and notes. It is a handy tool for learning and studying.
 
Summarized Google search results save you time in reviewing and discovering the essential fragments hidden in web pages.  With Context Organizer’s review and summarization of Google search results is very fast and effortless.
 
Speed reading with Context Organizer is as simple as clicking on a button. Summaries and keywords ranked by relevance are instantly discovered and presented to you for review and note taking.
 
MindManager mind mapping is completely automated with Context Organizer. With the simple click of a button, you can instantly create a MindManager map.
 
In conclusion, Context Organizer’s power to visualize critical information is akin to creating on the spot maps to help you effortlessly navigate through web pages.  In an instant, large amounts of information are simplified and reduced to the most essential storyline, which is easy to understand and learn.
 
You can download and try out Context Organizer for free.

 

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How can Context Organizer help you with MindManager mind mapping?

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

With the click of a button Context Organizer quickly helps you understand the key concepts and discover the hidden patterns.  Context Organizer reads documents, presents you with the key ideas, summaries and a MindManager map.

 

Answer: by simply clicking a button, MindjetКјs MindManager maps are automatically generated by Context Organizer.

See a demo of Context OrganizerКјs ability to generate Mindjet’s MindManager maps. 
 Context Organizer spotlights the most essential points by finding keywords and associated phrases. In an instant you have the list of Topics suitable for MindManager mind mapping. The Topics are linked to related summaries and presented in a typical MindManager map allowing you to instantly visualize and use the critical content of web pages, documents and emails.
 Thanks to Context Organizer’s integration with MindManager, users can easily manipulate the results using all of MindManager’s capabilities.
 Advantages
With Context Organizer, text visualization is easy and instantaneous. The keywords serve as powerful guides through the most important concepts. The related summaries provide the details and context in which the keywords are used.
 The result is a quick and easy way of understanding key concepts and saving time even when examining lengthy web pages and documents. With the integration with Mindjet MindManager, mind maps are generated automatically saving users time and effort from manually drawing MindManager maps.
Instantly produce MindManager maps with Context Organizer
 
With the click of a button Context Organizer quickly helps you understand the key concepts and discover the hidden patterns.  Context Organizer reads documents, presents you with the key ideas, summaries and a MindManager map.
This approach saves you precious time that would have been spent on reading and mind mapping every day. With Context Organizer  you are able to quickly understand and map key concepts in a fraction of the time it takes by working using conventional methods.
See a demo of Context OrganizerКјs ability to generate Mindjet’s MindManager maps. 
You can explore the power of Context Organizer by trying it out for free.
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How can Context Organizer help you with note taking?

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
Context Organizer note taking capability performs like smart yellow sticky notes: you can instantly mine web pages and documents for ideas and then use the note taking feature to organize your favourite summaries and keywords to fit your studying, researching, and writing needs.
 
How would you like to have an application that not only discovers the essential summaries of whatever you are reading on the Web, but also allows you to take notes at the click of a button?
 
Welcome to Context Organizer’s effortless note taking capability.
 
A bit of a background: Context Organizer note taking format is based on the widely used notetaking system devised in the 1950s by Walter Pauk, an education professor at Cornell University. Onedistinctive characteristic of the Cornell note-taking system is the layout of the page on which you take your notes. The left margin is used to label each idea with a keyword or a "cue." The right margin is used to provide the corresponding most significant description of the idea.
Advantages
The Cornell note taking system provides a clear and systematic format for recording and reviewing notes. The format is visually helpful for easy recalling of major concepts and ideas. It is a simple, visual, and efficient learning tool.
 
How do you automatically create your Cornell Notes with Context Organizer?
Answer: by simply clicking a button. Context Organizer automatically populates the left margin with keywords and the right margin with corresponding, crucial summaries. The keywords are ranked by relevance so at a glance, you know whatthe most important ideas in the text you are reading are.
 
The keywords serve as the cues, which are essential to recalling main facts.
 
Taken together, the keywords and corresponding summaries provide you with an instant and comprehensive overview of the key facts and the supporting details. All with just the click of a button. But it does not stop here. You can now select any keywords and summaries and send them to your editor and email them along with the references that are automatically included.
 
You can always check the context of use of any particular keyword and summary. Again, with the click of a button, Context Organizer will highlight the selected sentences in your browser so you can see the broader perspective – in another words you can quickly see in what context the writer is framing his or her thoughts.
 
Context Organizer note taking capability performs like smart yellow sticky notes: you can instantly mine web pages and documents for ideas and then use the note taking feature to organize your favourite summaries and keywords to fit your studying, researching, and writing needs.
 
With Context Organizer, you can rapidly organize your reading and study material into thematic collections by main ideas and free your time to study, reflect, and creatively think about what you have learned.
 
There are many other Context Organizer features that leverage your ability to learn, speed read, summarize Google search results, and automatically create mind maps with MindManager.
 
You can explore the power of Context Organizer by trying it out for free.
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How Context Organizer turns you into a speed reader?

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
 
With Context Organizer everybody, without exception, can become an instant speed reader. With just the click of a button, Context Organizer extracts the most relevant keywords and sentences!
Answer: by simply clicking a button, the essential summaries will jump off the page.
See a demo of Context Organizer’s speed reading power.
 
Students, bloggers, and journalists must read and understand tremendous amounts of material within short timeframes. Being able to read quickly is a vital skill that makes work and research easier.
 
Most speed-reading methods are based on skim reading first and in reading groups of words. It takes tremendous discipline, effort, practice, and a special aptitude to become a speed reader.
 
However, with Context Organizer everybody, without exception, can become an instant speed reader.
 
Reading speed is essential
It is certainly more satisfying to be able to read rapidly, instead of spending what seems like forever ploughing through the words, not knowing if what you read is useful or a waste of time.
Besides the enjoyment factor, you need to get through a lot of reading material in as little time as possible.
Efficient reading skills tremendously help with schoolwork and help improve grades.
 
Knowledge workers constantly read reports, countless web pages, and research material necessary for their jobs. If you can read faster, with greater comprehension, your chances for success are greatly increased. If you look around, you may notice that a lot of successful people are rapid readers.
 
Become an instant speed reader with Context Organizer
 
With just the click of a button, Context Organizer will extract the most relevant keywords and sentences!
 
You will instantly be able to know what the web page is about. The key points are highlighted. This brings your view into focus. You can view any part of the text that contains your favourite keywords. You can rapidly take notes with references. All of this is achieved with just a click of a button.
 
You get more done in less time. You don’t have to struggle with the text or train to become champion speed reader.
 
And you don’t have to struggle with information overload.
 
See a demo of Context Organizer speed reading power.
 
Here is an example of Context Organizer instant summary of this post:
 
 
 
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