Designed
for the more casual user of information, KnowledgeWorkshop
personal edition is idea for individuals who
are new to knowledge management and want to
begin building a personal knowledge base. It
is a simplified version of our professional
product that is easier to learn but still has
the basic tools you need to make information
and knowledge work for you. KnowledgeWorkshop
is designed to help you manage and interconnect
the information found on your PC and across
the World Wide Web. It enables you to synthesize
information into personal knowledge and understanding
in a manner that mimics the brain's own
mechanisms. Since you structure the information
based on how you think and see the world, finding
information when you need it is intuitive and
natural. It facilitates the generation of new
insights and understanding from the relationships
that you can establish among your information
sources leading to the "Aha!" experience.
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frequently asked questions
page. To see how the Personal Edition compares
with our Professional and Plus editions visit
or Edition comparison
page.
View
information in a convenient and intuitive
way
With
its fully functional embedded Internet browser
you can:
Easily
move between multiple open windows using KnowledgeWorkshop's
tabbed format for displaying Internet, intranet
and local files.
Make the information that is important to
you stand out using the permanent multicolor
highlighting that you can apply within web
content owned and maintained by others.
Put annotations, task reminders and questions
where they will mean the most right within
the highlighted web content you need to work
with.
Eliminate messy highlighters by printing web
pages with the highlighting present .
Integrate and view discussions about topics
that interest you with the fully functional
news reader built into KnowledgeWorkshop.
Structure
information in a way that makes sense to you
and enables you to work more effectively
Organize
information elements (personal files, web
sites, newsgroups, discussions) together in
a manner that replicates how you think about
the world, which means finding and retrieving
information is intuitive and straightforward.
Integrate new information and restructure
your thinking around it with KnowledgeWorkshop's
drag and drop capabilities for moving information
elements about.
Create information categories that make sense
to you and display information selectively
within each category.
Build you own navigation index based on words
and phrases you select within web content.
Efficiently maintain information in a single
location, but have the flexibility to interconnect
it anywhere in your information database by
creating associations among information elements.
Easily follow the most important relationships
between information elements using KnowledgeWorkshop
tools to describe and rate the strength of
relationships and sort information based on
this.
Build
a personal knowledge database encompassing
a lifetime of learning
Take ownership of, and customize information
from web content. You no longer have to worry
if the page is changed or deleted by the author.
Copy and paste content between information
elements and notes to establish a personalized
version of the information.
Create notes from scratch using the built-in
word processor.
Integrate
your local files of any format into your knowledgebase
by attaching them to notes with drag-and-dropping
functionality.
Whether your information sources are files
on your file-system, web sites, notes or discussions,
you can tie them together and easily navigate
from one element to any other related one.
Navigating to any member of an associated
set displays all of the other members automatically.
Retrieve
the information you want quickly Do
you sometimes feel like you are trying to
drink from a fire hydrant when you do a search
on the Internet?
Eliminate
the overwhelming and irrelevant results usually
produced by using the fully functional search
engine built into KnowledgeWorkshop
Perform a ranked content search of your information
structure, notes and newsgroups to produce
the selective and relevant results you need.
Use your personally created index of key words
and phrases to find information.
Sort information based on your understanding
or study time to quickly and easily determine
what needs further attention prior to a critical
meeting or exam.
Easily
move between multiple open windows using KnowledgeWorkshop's
tabbed format for displaying Internet, intranet
and local files.
Put annotations, task reminders and questions
where they will mean the most right within
the highlighted web content you need to work
with.
Integrate new information and restructure
your thinking around it with KnowledgeWorkshop's
drag and drop capabilities for moving information
elements about. 
Efficiently maintain information in a single
location, but have the flexibility to interconnect
it anywhere in your information database by
creating associations among information elements.
Copy and paste content between information
elements and notes to establish a personalized
version of the information.
Eliminate
the overwhelming and irrelevant results usually
produced by using the fully functional search
engine built into KnowledgeWorkshop
Use your personally created index of key words
and phrases to find information.
