| Feature |
Personal
Edition |
Plus
Edition |
Professional
Edition |
| Organize
and structure information |
| Maximum
combined number of topics, notes,
tasks and discussion groups |
500 |
2000 |
Not limited by KW |
| Organize
files and web pages within a knowledgebase which you can navigate with a tree structure (akin to Windows File Explorer) |
✔ |
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| Display
files and web pages in multiple browser windows using a tabbed format. |
✔ |
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| View
author, description and assigned categories of information items before you download or display them. |
✔ |
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| Create
and manage notes using the built-in word processor. Easily copy information from the web browser
into notes. |
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| Spell
check notes |
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| Attach
files to notes |
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| Display
your notes alongside your reference topics as you work |
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| Use
the fully functional built-in newsgroup reader to view and connect discussions
with your other information. |
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| Crawl
a web site and add its web-page structure to your knowledgebase. |
✔ |
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| Import
favorites from Internet Explorer |
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| Import
files and folders from your file system into the topics tree |
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| Connect,
personalize and enhance information |
| Create
associations between information items so you know when and why they are related. Use the associations
to follow a chain of related information items. |
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| Apply
permanent multi-color highlighting to HTML web pages. |
✔ |
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| Add
post-it-type notes (annotations) to highlighted areas of web pages. |
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| Assign
one or more categories to an information element, and use to focus subsequent
search actions. |
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| Define your own custom attributes
and use these to hold data about your information items. For example, if you are researching
cars, you can store values for price, power, features, efficiency, emissions etc. |
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| Custom attribute report:
See how different items/options compare in terms of your custom attributes; view them
all in a convenient table format. |
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| Find
Information |
| Search for items containing
specific words in their title or description |
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| Search
for items containing specific words in their body, that is, in the content of
web-pages, MS Office documents, spreadsheets, presentations, e-mails, notes, tasks, discussion postings etc. |
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| Retrieve items
matching specified criteria for category and custom attributes. |
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| Easily
build a keyword index of your information resources (files, web pages, notes, e-mails,
tasks). Quickly retrieve all information by keyword. |
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| Display
lists of highlighted web content and sort/filter by highlight style
and other properties. |
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| Self rate your understanding of file/web-page items |
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| Share
Information and Knowledge |
| Share information with others who may not have KnowledgeWorkshop:
Publish parts of you knowledgebase to a directory or web-server so that others may view them |
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| Share information with other KnowledgeWorkshop users:
Create a single XML file containing your selected files, web-pages (including highlighting),
newsgroups, notes, e-mails, tasks, associations which other KW users can then import into their own knowledgebase. |
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| Build a shared knowledgebase with
your workgroup or colleagues. This requires the use of the Respository Service, which is a separate product.
|
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|
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| Utilities |
| Create
tasks and store them with the notes/web-pages you have to work on, or store them elsewhere and bind them using associations.
Add popup reminders to tasks to alert you when they are due for attention. |
✔ |
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| Master
pop-up blocker, with per-item override where needed |
✔ |
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| Store
username and password for Internet sites and have them delivered automatically
when needed. |
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| Identify
web pages to be made available when offline |
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| License
Management |
| Use
the License Management Service to share license-seats among multiple users. |
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| Application Connectivity |
| Drag & drop or Cut & Paste e-mails
from Microsoft Outlook, Windows Mail or Outlook Express into your knowledgebase to be right next to
the files/resources they pertain to. |
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| Internet Explorer Add-in: When using Internet Explorer to
view web-pages and you see something you want to keep, save its URL in KnowledgeWorkshop, even if KW is not running at the time. |
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| Microsoft Outlook Add-in: When using Outlook, use the add-in to
save e-mail content or references to e-mails (and Outlook notes & contacts) in KnowledgeWorkshop
even if KW is not running at the time. |
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