Have you been to Paris lately?  Maybe you sat down for a meal and been thoroughly disappointed by the mediocre fare?  What’s happening ? It is surprising in a country like France where a good meal is a subject of conversation and food a matter of pride, that restaurants have taken a bit of...

During your normal day you may run into a number of things that catch your attention.  You may see news scroll across a screen, or an article pop up in your RSS feeds.  You may even save the article to read later.  But with so many things happening, how can you delve deeper into the...

A new start I had stalled out on my to-do list.  For the past week, I was staring at the same ten items, making little progress.  I’d tried everything to motivate myself.  For example, I promised myself a tall frozen yogurt at the end of the day if I’d completed them all.  Then I’d...

There’s something quite refreshing about sitting at a table with friends, each with their mobile device, either in hand or set out next to them, and having an intense discussion.  You name the topic.  Everyone dives in.  Fact-checking runs rampant.  When one person repeats a favorite...

We can all be smarter with a second brain, and that extra brain is right there in our hands: our smartphones! You don’t need any special programming skills.  With a little savings, you can buy a smartphone and load it up with free (or at least cheap) apps.  The apps are quick and easy to...

Drawing Apps:  What to look for Your tablet or phone are perfect for sketching personal roadmaps, doodling mobo sketchnotes during a talk or simply drawing.  Drawing apps are key to the whole process.  There are a number of choose from.  Some of the important features to look for...

My book Mobo Brain: A Guide to Mobile Brainpower has just been published by Birdrock Press.  If you already have a smartphone, like the Apple iPhone, Samsung Galaxy or one of many Android phones on the market, then you are well on your way to turning this small device into a second (mobo)...

There’s nothing like fixing your yourself a tall Brain-tini. A Brain-tini is a intense shot of knowledge that you assemble on your mobo brain.  It helps you to learn specific topics in more depth and assemble them on your mobo brain to take with you.  You can mix a Brain-tini specifically...

Mobo Sketchnotes:  sketching notes on a phone or tablet After reading Mike Rohde’s “The Sketchnote Handbook,” I wanted to try drawing my own sketchnote on a mobile device.  Instead of a Moleskine notebook, I felt a mobile phone or tablet would be a perfect.  A sketchnote...

I always felt guilty doodling in class. My professors would look in my direction and I’d pretend I was scribbling longhand notes.  But in truth, I’d drifted off, drawing unusual plumbing systems that snaked around the edges of my page.  In my math class, numbers would swarm like...

 Our brains have a unique ability to use imagery as a means to remember numbers, names, facts and textbook material in long-term memory.  So, by simply visualizing something you are able to many times retain the information for a long period of time. In his book Moonwalking with Einstein,...