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Summarization is an effective form of text mapping

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
 

With the Context Organizer for MindManager a text summary is instantly converted into a MindManager map without any loss of relevant text content.

The automatic map generation frees the user from tedious map charting while providing more opportunity to focus on shaping the visually mapped information.

 

Summaries lead the mind to focus on essential content. This enables faster evaluation and comprehension.  While summarising, the reader effectively engages in efficient contextual comprehension by gaining both the big picture and the detail expressions.

 
Summarization reveals text structures, while contextual associations are clearly revealed through highlighted keywords.
 
The Context Organizer provides the reader with the most relevant keywords as a guide to the most significant statements within the body of text.  The keywords work as quick filters enabling users to focus on the most relevant sentences of interest.
 
Further, the use of keywords navigates the reader through summarized content providing a superior visual format which is a more practical manager to rapid comprehension of content in context.
 
The advantage of using summarization for text mapping is that summarization provides the most accurate and direct text representation in the form of the most relevant keywords and sentences.
 
This direct approach by Context Organizer is superior to other graphical techniques which are abstract representations of text and always require further explanation.  Information mapping is a record of the reader’s comprehension, or lack of it. It’s not uncommon for graphical mapping to have little to do with the text, and the formats often used make it difficult to interpret, leaving too much for the reader to extrapolate and/or reconstruct.
 
Graphic organizers indeed have their place, I do however believe that summarization as a text mapping technique, effectively complements graphic organizers, by bridging the gap between texts and corresponding abstracted diagramming.
 
A summary as a text map provides superior expression for creating accurate and complete visual maps. This is one of the reasons that Context Organizer integrates seamlessly with Mindjet MindManager.
 
With the Context Organizer for MindManager a text summary is instantly converted into a MindManager map without any loss of relevant text content. The automatic map generation frees the user from tedious map charting while providing more opportunity to focus on shaping the visually mapped information. This is a unique and valuable addition that significantly enhances MindManager’s effectiveness.
 
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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 authorʼs 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.
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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 Knowledge Discovery Challenge

Friday, August 22nd, 2008

Context Organizer summaries instantly show you the "big picture" enabling you to quickly and visually understand large amounts of information, organized by relevancy so you instantly get clear view of the essential content. 

One of the challenges is that we always have far too much to read and research, and not enough time to do it. Whether we are studying, writing blogs, doing product research, competitive analysis, or searching the web, we always run out of time to tackle our enormous reading stacks. 

Given the ever-increasing amounts of information we face today, it is necessary to find more effective methods for mining and discovering hidden knowledge. 
  
The major obstacle we face is that too much content hides the relevant message; there is also a lack of context. Often, the content lacks clear structure, which makes reading and understanding more difficult.
 
Work Smarter with Context Organizer
Context Organizer summaries instantly show you the "big picture" enabling you to quickly and visually understand large amounts of information, organized by relevancy so you instantly get clear view of the essential content. 
 
With Context Organizerʼs summaries you are making informed decisions in less time. And that is only the beginning.  The summaries are also blueprints for action, enabling you to speed read, rapidly take notes, summarize Google search results, instantly generate MindManager mind maps, and filter information according to your interests.
 
Focus on results not the tool - Think Creatively
With its intuitive, highly interactive interface, Context Organizer summaries are created in a snap. The creation of summaries promotes quick understanding by focusing on the essential content only, while superfluous information is filtered out.
 
Context Organizer summaries increase your ability to text mine documents’ key ideas and facts; you achieve it quickly and effortlessly, leaving you more time for strategic and creative thinking.
 
Save Time
Context Organizer integrates with and complements existing desktop tools so you can immediately realize productivity gains without interruption or ramp up time. Using Context Organizer enhances the quality and speed of strategic thinking, accelerates research, learning, project and process planning, and increases personal and team productivity.
 
For ease of use, Context Organizer is seamlessly integrated with Internet Explorer, Firefox, Windows Explorer, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Word, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft PowerPoint, and Mindjet MindManager.
 
In essence, whenever you read web pages, emails, and documents, you can simply just click a button to instantly spotlight the key ideas and facts; no more information overload.
  
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, Mindjetʼs MindManager maps are automatically generated by Context Organizer.

See a demo of Context Organizerʼs 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 Organizerʼs 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 can Context Organizer help you with Google searches?

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

 

Answer: by simply clicking a button, Google search results are summarized by Context Organizer and displayed in tabs for easy review. 
See a demo of Context Organizer’s ability to summarize Google search results.
See a sample screen of Summarized Google Search Results.
Almost everyone searches Google to find information, and Google quickly rewards them by displaying a huge number of links for review. Certainly Google finds the information we are seeking, but the challenge is to find only the relevant pages  in the multitude of links quickly.

 

The challenge of web searches
Web navigation is driven by text. Keywords act as general directions for our searching needs. What we do not know before the search results are revealed is in what context these keywords are used in the documents found by Google.
In short, we need context to help us evaluate usefulness of search results.
Google, as any other search engine, is unaware of context. Google provides pages with keywords in the text regardless of the context of their uses.
By nature, web queries are very short and it is doubtful that a one, or two, or three-word query can clearly express users’ informational objectives.
This is where Context Organizer comes in to your help with Google searches.
With Context Organizer, your Google search results are automatically summarized! You always see the most relevant keywords in context! 
At a glance, you are able to recognize how useful any of your Google search results are. And to top this, you do not have to click on any of the Google links. With a simple click of the Search+ button, Context Organizer will keep summarizing Google search results and display the summaries in separate tabs for ease of review.
You do not have to click on the links, wait for the connection, and then read the page – this is all instantly accomplished by Context Organizer.
Say you summarize 20 top Google search results, you can theneasily review the key sentences, assess the relevancy of the keywords, and quickly form a comprehensive idea ofwhich of the search results are useful to you, in context with your objectives. Practically, compactly, and quickly, Context Organizer presents you with the most relevant content and keywords from Google search results.
See a demo of Context Organizer’s ability to summarize Google search results.
See a sample screen of Summarized Google Search Results.
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Context Organizer also summarizes Microsoft Live Search results. The user has a choice of either using Google or Live Search engines with Context Organizer.
 
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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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Scanning and Skimming instead of Reading

Monday, August 11th, 2008
 
Literally, at a click of the button in the web browser, Context Organizer instantly identifies the keywords and key sentences by relevance.
 
There are different methods of reading for different purposes.
 
The technique we choose depends on the reason for reading; for example, we can read for pleasure, for information, or to complete an assignment.
 
If we are appraising or reviewing, we may just skim a document. If we are searching for specific facts, we may scan for particular keywords. To get detailed information, we need to dig deeper into the text.
 
In effect, we adjust our reading speed and our focus depending on our purposes.
 
Some consider skimming and scanning search techniques rather than reading strategies. However, when reading large volumes of information, skimming and scanningmay be more practical than deep reading.
 
Usually scanning is the first thing that we do when we select a source for review. It helps answer such questions as:
·   Is source relevant to helping me find what I’m looking for?
·   Will this give me the answers I’m looking for?
·      Is there anything in this related to my interest?
In fact when we are scanning, we are zipping through the whole source, homing in on the important chunks. Scanning gives us a feel for the whole item; it works like a powerful filter and saves us time.
 
In practice, scanning is a particularly useful technique for reading web pages. For example, we scan Google search results rapidly checking for relevant keywords. We glance at the titles and summaries searching for phrases or keywords that relate to our search.
 
There is also a deeper rationale for scanning; when we scan, our minds are instantly matching the keywords with the purpose of our query. This instant contextualization is the main reason why scanning is a very effective filter for identifying the relevancy of information.
 
In my work on developing Context Organizer, we built-in automatic scanning and skimming filters. Literally, at a click of the button in the web browser, Context Organizer instantly identifies the keywords and key sentences by relevance. That means that the users instantly know if the web page is important to them and what the focal points are.
 
Jacob Nielsen provided a revealing study on How Users Read on the Web:
“People rarely read Web pages word by word; instead, they scan the page, picking out individual words and sentences.”
 
You can try out Context Organizer and I would be very glad to hear from you on how it helps you with rapid scanning and reading.

  

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