I fell into another rabbit hole this morning. Here’s how it started:
I opened up my Gmail and scanned the latest list of Amazon Kindle ebooks on sale. There was a book “Attention Span” by psychologist Gloria Mark on how to improve your focus. Hmm, interesting.
Try before I buy: I borrowed the ebook from the National Library (SG) and read the section on the “Zeigarnik Effect”. This should make a nice infographic, I thought.
I screengrabbed the text and gave it to NotebookLM, and asked it to make an infographic. Gah, the visual was quite generic, so I asked Gemini to improve it with 3D-ness and it produced the image that you see on the left.
I didn’t like the way the text was laid out in the infographic, so I imported it into Canva (where I’m using a trial paid account) where I have learned how to edit Google’s infographics. I used Canva’s different AI tools to blend the background lines and colors together, remove and rework the text with real fonts, and adjust the layout of the 3D icons.
Then I wrote this post to share my learnings.
Boomz, two hours have passed since I opened up that email.
Oh well, at least I was focused.