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In my daily practice I have been observing differences in end-user preferences for IT tools since a long time, and the underlying "cognitive styles" have intrigued me ever since. Verbal and analytic are again a little more substitutable (superior?) than wholistic and imagery (p. 58).
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And I use applications other than the default application for a given file name extension, and therefore I still need to drag file icons onto application icons - which seems to be rather out of fashion after the document centric hiding of tools has become prevalent.
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With the Wacko wiki I adopted, indivual tiny pages can be assembled using "include" statements (I can even achieve a rudimentary two-dimensional newspaper-like effect by indenting some of them), and I can set anchors to jump to these included units within their aggregated context.
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Writing such small notes must be extremely fast, or more precisely: extremely little distracting, because one must leave the task at hand for a moment and must scribble something down that needs to be understood many weeks later when there is time enough to look at these notes.
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Modern cognitive tools should offer several modes of operation, one for each major cognitive style, rather than to try and optimize for the imaginative average user ( #105 ).
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But the most valuable gems I found were from search engine queries I simply copied from my referer log.
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And the associated kind of understanding which will be fostered and developped by these new tools, could be more compatible to Egan's somatic, mythic, and romantic kinds of understanding and would better allow the necessary coalescence with its predecessors?
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Of course, if they use the name every day as if it were a proper name of their proprietor, they get professionally blinkered and forget that the acronym once had a meaning, which was mostly derived from common appellative nouns.
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