LucCogZest

One can use AI as an adjunct to therapy (not a replacement for a human) for many reasons, including that it is expert in many different approaches (e.g., emotion-focused therapy, metacognitive therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, cognitive-behavioral therapy, etc.) So (depending on your level of knowledge) you can ask it to take whatever approach you want. Then you can use `Hook to New` to create a bidirectionally linked ('hooked') note in the app of your choice. For me it's #omnioutliner, #nvUltra and @bbedit@mastodon.social; for many people it's #obsidian or #Agenda.

Is anyone really here. I post and radio silence. I'm spending more and more of my time on Substack. Deep knowledge-intense posts. Nice interactions. No offence but...

I disagree with Cal Newport : Email can be deep work. I do some of my most important thinking writing deep messages to colleagues. I plan to write about that later.

Yesterday, Mark Bernstein ( @eastgate@c.im ) —the developer of #Tinderbox and editor of #Winterfest https://www.artisanalsoftwarefestival.com/—posted [on X](https://x.com/eastgate/status/2003239136812237221) posted about his new article, [Is the golden age of Indie software over? ](https://successfulsoftware.net/2025/12/22/is-the-golden-age-of-indie-software-over/) [which I highly recommend].

This led to an exchange on bookmarking, which I also captured on our Blog:

https://hookproductivity.com/blog/2025/12/a-small-x-exchange-that-explains-a-big-idea-behind-hookmark/

In 2010 I told Steve Jobs Apple needed system-wide linking — Quick Note fell short, but Hookmark delivers the vision: https://hookproductivity.com/blog/2025/09/quick-note-on-macos-still-limited-in-2025/

I will submit a paper contextual information retrieval systems backed by #AI @HUMAN 2025 @ACM . Think Hookmark with AI (coming soon). @clausatz@hci.social

@OmniGroup Your newsletter comes at just the right frequency, packed with helpful info. This year is my 20-year anniversary of using The Omni Group software (started with OmniGraffle and OmniOutliner, which I still use regularly). Hookmark's annotated screenshots are done with OmniGraffle. When I'm facing a creative task, I do Hook to New > OmniOutliner doc.

On reasoning with diagrams and other analogical representations https://luccogzest.substack.com/p/on-reasoning-with-diagrams-and-other

What is Grief and What Causes It to Endure? Part 3: using stories and music to understand and heal grief.

https://luccogzest.substack.com/p/what-is-grief-and-what-causes-it-820

NPR interview of me on the cognitive shuffle airing today! You can listen live here at 12.40pm ET - https://www.wbur.org/

Here's a cool example of the use of @hookmarkapp . I hooked a PDF to a youtube video the PDF describes
PDF: https://cogaffarchive.org/sloman.diagbook.pdf , youtube video (of Mr Bean putting on a bathing suite without exposing himself) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWCSQm86UB4

why on Earth does Kindle Mac app not allow you to search your notes!

Has Kindle not progressed since I wrote this in 2013? http://cogzest.com/2013/11/whats-wrong-with-the-kindle-app-a-knowledge-delvers-perspective/

You are deeply affected by The Meta-Access Problem in the Age of Al Here's what it is and how to solve it:
Answer is On My Substack; https://luccogzest.substack.com/p/contextual-information-retrieval

and on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/meta-access-problem-age-al-luc-p-beaudoin-ep30c/

Is anyone out there interested in time tracking and the free [mySelfQuantifier](https://cogzest.com/projects/mySelfQuantifier/) spreadsheet?

Why You Can't Say AI Is—or Is Not—Intelligent https://luccogzest.substack.com/p/why-you-cant-say-ai-isor-is-notintelligent This article draws on 3 decades of my research, and heavily on others.

I’m a big admirer of Ron Burnett, former president of Emily Carr University of Art and Design. So when I saw that he had written a biography of learning, I bought it and delved it. Read my book review of A Biography of Learning by Ron Burnett on Substack: https://luccogzest.substack.com/p/review-of-a-biography-of-learning

What is grief and what causes it to endure? Part 1: Love: https://luccogzest.substack.com/p/what-is-grief-and-what-causes-it

May I ask, what are your plans for presenting at conferences on diagrammatic reasoning in next year?

Missing my mellifluous voice 😉? Here is the link to NPR interview of me, just a few minutes long, on the cognitive shuffle sleep technique and research

https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2026/04/29/cognitive-shuffling-sleep

"#CognitiveScience meets #Meditation: Why I developed a new approach to help improve #Attention and #Emotional Regulation and Executive Control" https://sharpbrains.com/blog/2026/04/29/cognitive-science-meets-meditation-why-i-developed-a-new-approach-to-help-improve-attention-and-emotional-regulation-and-executive-control/

@MilekPl@sciences.social what are your thoughts on Sloman's Diagrams in the Mind article? https://cogaffarchive.org/sloman.diagbook.pdf I've started a project on diagrammatic reasoning (analogically reasoning to be more precise). I will include that in productive practice work such as [my learning from Fictopoiesis article in progress for bibliotherapy of all things](https://luccogzest.substack.com/p/productive-practice-driven-fictopoeisis)

I will be interviewed today by NPR about the cognitive shuffle for their mid-day show. The cognitive shuffle is a technique I invented, based on my sleep onset and insomnolence theory, to faciliate sleep

→ https://mysleepbutton.com/support/the-cognitive-science/
-> CUP chapter on the subject: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/390502925

@drdrang And there are things Apple hasn't promised that it should have, such as providing an API for linking across all its data-rich apps: Apple’s macOS Apps Are the Weak Link

My new book is now 93% complete: Discontinuities: Love, Art, Mind https://leanpub.com/discontinuities/

This is a deep dive into understanding ourselves through science and art in its many forms (song, music, film, literature, etc.)