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/

@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.

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

@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)

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.)

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/

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

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

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

"#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/

@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

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

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/

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 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

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

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

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

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

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