As you work on tasks throughout the day, how long does it take to find the relevant information needed to complete them?
A McKinsey report found that people working at computers, spend an average of 23% of their time searching for files and information.
CORA is a radically simplified approach to managing digital information. Information lives in pages, and each page belongs in one of just four connected locations.
The result is a drastic reduction in the time it takes to know where to store and where to find anything.
This cuts away the decision fatigue.
When the information is structured in this way, it allows you to focus on what's in front of you, trusting the system to surface the important and relevant information in a timely fashion.
When the body is at rest our human brain goes to work, building connections between existing information and what was encountered through the waking hours.
The CORA framework mimics this important function in a digital second brain.
Innovation comes when we make new connections between disparate ideas.
<aside> <img src="https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/secure.notion-static.com/5a2c9f9e-e87f-43b9-9bbe-9a8f377ca78e/double-quote.png" alt="https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/secure.notion-static.com/5a2c9f9e-e87f-43b9-9bbe-9a8f377ca78e/double-quote.png" width="40px" /> Leonardo da Vinci defined innovation as connecting the unconnected.
His expertise in anatomy helped him to create better portraits and sculptures, and helped him make sense of mechanics and engineering.
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”Always Be Connecting the Dots. It's not about creating newness, but making sense of what you have, and shaping it in new and interesting ways.”
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