Imagine a virtual space within your computer - a richly detailed space containing wood shelves
filled with lots of books.
Imagine each book containing a myriad of information: dozens or hundreds of documents organized by topics and subtopics.
Imagine adding your own books, placing them in 3-D space.
Imagine dragging and dropping content - web pages, emails, files - onto books.
Knowledge Room is software that enables you to navigate, gather, organize, and remember information on your MS-Windows PC.
Using a rich 3-D graphical user interface, Knowledge Room places you inside of a large room with high beamed ceilings, an upper loft, brick walls
and a number of oak and mahogany bookshelves....
Clicking on an area of the loft opens a closeup environment view.
The closeup environment view gives you more detail of that area of the room. The bookshelves are filled with books of various sizes, colors, and textures.
Double click on a book and a table of contents view appears, containing an outline of all content in the book.
In Knowledge Room, a book can contain many things:
Web page bookmarks, saved web page content, notes, documents,
email messages, or references to pictures, music, spreadsheets - anything you can double click to launch on your PC.
Open a note, document, email message or web page - or launch the application - by double clicking an entry in the table of contents.
Each table of contents is really an outline. You may create subtopics as you see fit.
Knowledge Room is dynamic. You build your own body of knowledge by adding new books to your environment. From a floating palette
you choose a book of a particular color, height and thickenss and drag it to the shelf you want.
You can move books around, too. Move a book from one shelf to another in the same bookcase, to a different bookcase in the same view, or clear across
the room.
Getting information into Knowledge Room is easy.
Probably the most common way of gathering information is by using Knowledge Room's integrated web browser.
Instead of using old-fashioned browser bookmarks, you can save any web address to any Knowledge Room book or table of contents.
You can also save actual web page content as well. This is especially useful when
viewing things like search results or news articles - anything that is "here today, gone tomorrow".
You can drag/drop email messages directly from MS-Outlook onto books or table of contents outlines.
You can drag/drop text files from Windows explorer onto books or table of contents outlines.
You can add new notes and documents to books or at specific places in table of contents outlines.
Text from word processing software or any other application can be copied to new or existing Knowledge Room notes and documents.
With a feature called auto-clip, you can automatically send all text you copy to a designated Knowledge Room book.
You can drag/drop any file onto a book or outline. Opening it from Knowledge Room will launch the application associated with the file.
You can drag/drop a Knowledge Room book that someone else has sent you onto any shelf in your own Knowledge Room environment.
Other Knowledge Room Features
Knowledge Room allows you to "publish" any book to a file. It's a great way to share your knowledge with a colleague or a friend.
You can apply keyword phrases to any item in a Knowledge Room book. Months or years later, recalling the web page, document or audio-clip is a snap, using the "type-ahead" keyword
list view.
Knowledge Room is a full "mutliple document interface" application. You may have as many environment, table-of-contents, and document views
displayed at one time as you wish. You may even have many web browsers displayed at the same time.
Knowledge Room "sessions" allow you you save all environments, table-of-contents views and documents you have open at any given time.
You can restore any session you've saved at any future date.
