Building a Second (Music Teacher) Brain, with Dr. Cory Meals

Dr. Cory Meals joins the show to talk about building a second brain, personal knowledge management apps, and how to keep it all together!

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Show Notes:

• Slide deck from Cory's Building a Second (Music Teacher) Brain Session at TMEA

• A Second (Music Teacher Brain) - Resources from the "Building a Second (Music Teacher) Brain" Session | TMEA 2022

• Book: Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential

• Evernote
• Notion
• Readwise
• Airr - Podcast App
• Craft
• Roam Research
• Obsidian
• Athens
• Drafts
• DEVONthink
• Craft for Music Educators - podcast episode with Dr. David MacDonald
• Get Organized Digitally! - podcast episode with Dr. Frank Buck
• Pass the Baton - podcast episode featuring Theresa Hoover
• Apps for Research and Remembering - podcast episode with Dr. David MacDonald
• Designing Curriculum and Assessing Students With Filemaker - podcast episode with Ben Denne
• Communication and Collaboration Apps for Music Teams - podcast episode with Ben Denne
• Articles from MacStories.net to help get set up with Obsidian:
  • My Obsidian Setup, Part 1: Sync, Core Plugins, Workspaces, and Other Settings
  • Obsidian In Depth: Core Plugins (Part 2)
  • MacStories Starter Pack: Introducing Obsidian Shortcut Launcher, A Free Plugin to Trigger Shortcuts from Obsidian
• Overcast - Free, simple, award-winning podcast player for iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch.
• Eliminating Canvas Stress by Writing Content in Markdown - my blog post that explains Markdown
• Deckset - app that designs your slides, so you can focus on your ideas
• Obsidian - Discord community and forum
• Taking Notes with Drafts - podcast episode featuring developer Greg Pierce
  • Institute for Composer Diversity
• Steinberg Summer Sale
• Poolsuite.fm
• Playdate

Other Recommendations from Cory, not mentioned in the episode:

• Work Clean: The life-changing power of mise-en-place to organize your life, work, and mind
• Tiago Forte Interviews Dan Charnas

App of the Week:

• Robby - OnTheWay
• Cory - Carrot Weather

Music of the Week:

• Robby - Poolsuite Mix Tapes | Poolside - Low Season
• Cory - MUETE - Slow Loris | Ak Dan Chil (ADG7) - Yeong Jeong Geo Ri (Live on KEXP)

Where to Find Us:

• Robby Burns - Twitter | Blog | Book
• Dr. Cory Meals - Twitter) | Website | University Link

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#47 - Craft for Music Educators, with Dr. David MacDonald

David rejoins the show to talk about how we use Craft, an extremely versatile, elegant, and powerful app for the web, iOS, and macOS devices.

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Show Notes:

• Example of listener submission, Mr. Ehler's, Resource for All Band Students (created entirely in Craft)
• Audacity 3.1 is out now!
• Fender acquires PreSonus
• Dorico 4, planned for early 2022, will be first Steinberg product to use new licensing system
• Craft
• OmniFocus
• Bear
• Markdown Blog Post
• iA Writer
• Obsidian
• Todoist
• Trello
• Rome Research
• Notion

App of the Week

Robby - Documents

David - GoodReader

Music of the Week

Robby - NPR Top 50 of 2021

David - Silk Sonic

Tech Tip of the Week

Better Touch Tool

Where to Find Us:

Robby - Twitter | Blog | Book

David - Twitter | Website | Blog

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