Posts Tagged ‘Learning’

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.
 
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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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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Context Organizer: Read Less, Learn More

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

 Summarization tools are one of the most effective ways to efficiently filter information and reduce information overload. Context Organizer is an intelligent content finder which provides the most relevant summaries. 

 
Summarization tools are one of the most effective ways to efficiently filter information and reduce information overload.
 
The reason that summarization tools are of value is that the amount of information available on the web is overwhelming. There is far more information that we can hope to process; this phenomenon is commonly called “information overload”.
 

Context Organizer is an efficiency tool, which makes reading a breeze.
Users click on the Context Organizer icon to get an instant “glance” of the most important keywords and content they are reading on the Web.
 

 

In essence, Context Organizer is an intelligent content finder which provides the most relevant summaries.  Summarization makes sense because we do not have time to read anymore. Instead, we are skimming and scanning, quickly trying to spot what is of interest to us.
 
You could try Context Organizer and see for yourself just how summarization will make your reading more effective and focused and only on the subjects of your interest.
 
 
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