Inside View

Building a Second Brain #BASB

 

I'm listening to Daniel Schimpke while trying to reduce my tool stack for my Personal Knowledge Management setup. The goal is to make it simple and create value for my own content creation. Here are some things I'm reviewing while planning to build a second brain.

• Using @readwiseio while reading anything on paper a paper book so I can digitise at source instead of adding to my stash. Readwise will give me quotes on a daily basis, helping me remember things that have real value.
• Capture. Organise. Distill. Express.
• PARA: Projects. Areas. Resources. Archives.

• I must tame my downloads folder. It is the primary source of information bloatage.
• Groom notes so they make sense to my daughter in 20 years time.
• Prefix the notes you add to a page with a full stop because that triggers @Readwiseio to inject a tag to the note.
• Visit my archives because when they are dusted off in regular intervals, they uncover truly actionable messages.

• Share part of your flow with members of a small group. I call my special group 4C.
• In the morning, I ask myself what was the top takeaway of the previous day. I'm restarting this process as part of my Topgold Audio Clips.

Listen to "The Rigor Of Transmedia Production E534 #digped" on Spreaker.

Editor's Note: I've been working at this second brain initiative for more than 1m page views of my blog.

 

[Bernie Goldbach teaches creative media for business on the Clonmel Digital Campus.]

That's @otter_ai hooking directly into @roamresearch h/t @dvargas92495

You're reading a blog post that I made by using the Otter.AI speech-to-text service. Others have done that before--this time I've got a second brain working to create this post, thanks to David Vargas (above).

A Parent's View of the Virtual #ictedu Conference

I HAD A PARENT'S VIEW ON SATURDAY, May 15, 2021, watching the virtual ICT in Education Conference unfold. I spotted three things as a parent, an educator, and an organiser.

Journaling with Speech Bubbles and Keyboard Entries

I TEACH JOURNALING to Media Writing students and for the next three years I plan to enhance that creative process with a few specific tips. One is to require a double spread page of speech bubbles and another task is to show a page that emerges from text input on a keyboard. I believe the Media Writing Journals I will review will have greater creative content at the end of the semester.

The Pandemic Fought the Infodemic #WeAreKinzen

PROPS TO THE KINZEN team for showing me how to fight an infodemic during the pandemic. Throughout my lockdown days, I've been a regular reader of curated content from Kinzen. I've avoided disinformation campaigns and learned to recognise dangerous content well before my online friends.

Enjoying e-mail Exports from @readwise.io

I'VE LEARNED A LOT from reviewing content I keep inside Readwise. I occasionally share items from my Readwise as Twitter Fleets. Today I'm starting to review items I've highlighted that Readwise exported to me as a short summary. I think these are some of my Readwise Favorites. I'm trying to see whether these items also appear in content I swipe and review in the Readwise app.

Collaborating with Content Creators Using @airtable

I HAVE AN OBSERVER (pictured) who watches most of what I create during our emergency remote teaching sessions on our kitchen table. And I have collaborators online who use Airtable while iterating their content into distinct channels. This blog post is my first attempt to see if it's possible to use mobile phones to dynamically track media texts as they evolve from PowerPoint decks to Spotify segments to embedded content on LinkedIn and short videos on Twitter. Along the way the recorded content will percolate up onto YouTube and WordPress for review by a leading author and for reuse by younger students following similar academic programmes.

This is a skunkworks project and content won't be in place until June 3, 2021.

Offsetting Screen Time During #CESICON

ALONG WITH PAM O'BRIEN, I got sucked into a day of inspirational ideas during the annual CESI Conference in Ireland. And I have a confession--I wasn't watching the Zoom Screen all the time. Instead, I rested my eyes on our Axolotls while listening to conference presentations.

This is an important skill--toggling between screens--because knowing how to do this staves off Zoom Fatigue. It's an important concept flagged by Dermot Casey in his LinkedIn feed.

Learned about uplifting vlogger h/t @ArcticKnave

IT WASN'T UNTIL the eagle-eyed Peter Curran presented his findings on The Inevitable topic of interacting that I was aware of how Barbie Vlogs could brighten our sitting room through its mantra of "positive attitude changes everything". Although I will admit that nobody in our home is the target audience of this virtual host.