![]() ![]() ![]() If you can’t recall their name later on, you can ask Evernote to instead show you the faces of all the people you met at that conference last month in Indianapolis. “The brain does not remember people alphabetically based on their name.” His solution: Evernote Hello, an app that stores photos of people’s faces and records of where and when you met them along with their contact information. Price: Freemium. Plain and simple save anything, read anywhere. “Whoever designed the address book totally didn’t think through the cognitive science of how remembering people works,” says Phil Libin, Evernote’s CEO. Instapaper is pretty famous, and also one of the simplest apps in the list. But those technologies were deeply flawed. Notepads, calendars, and Rolodexes were once the preferred tools to fill those gaps. But they’re prone to bungle abstract details like the title of a book we wanted to read or the errand we were supposed to run on the way home from work. Our own brains are brilliant at storing and retrieving information that’s viscerally important to us, like the smile of someone we love or the smell of a food that made us sick, explains Maureen Ritchey, a postdoctoral researcher at U.C.–Davis who specializes in the neuroscience of memory. Arena has completely changed my mind about Magic: The Gathering If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Yet tools like Google, Facebook, and Evernote hold at least as much potential to make us not only more knowledgeable and more productive but literally smarter than we’ve ever been before. A growing chorus of critics warns that the Internet is making us lazy, stupid, lonely, or crazy. Memory, communication, data analysis-Internet-connected devices can give us superhuman powers in all of these realms. But functionally, the distinctions between encyclopedic knowledge and reliable mobile Internet access are less significant than you might think. And Dustin Hoffman rattled off those bits of trivia a few seconds faster in the movie than you could with the aid of Google. True, the Web isn’t actually part of your brain. The other is that you’re using the most powerful brain-enhancement technology of the 21 st century so far: Internet search. If you answered “46.1519,” “8,000,” and “Qantas,” there are two possibilities. For thinkers and doers who could use an extension of their mind. Quick, what’s the square root of 2,130? How many Roadmaster convertibles did Buick build in 1949? What airline has never lost a jet plane in a crash? For those who move too fast to be bothered with folders, labels and systems. ![]()
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