KnowledgeLink Pro 4.1

Organize your documents with KnowledgeLink Pro 4.1

Bind all your "documents" into one knowledge file.

In our software development shop, we pass requirements documents, quick notes, screenshots, and Tablet PC ink sketches between our in-house architects and project coordinators and our offshore developers continuously, and the tool we use to bind them all together is an inexpensive program from MindSystems in Australia called "KnowledgeLink Pro"

Ever try binding together all the information you need to do a typical project in one document? Maybe you use zip files, or try inserting everything into Word docs?

Link a ton of related information together in one document and you have, a "knowledge doc".

KnowledgeLink "knowledge docs" are a format that can store a ton of information - text, graphics, images, etc... organizing it into "Topics" that you can navigate as easily as a table of contents.

A topic is one chunk of information - a chapter in a book, or a portion of a design, or simply a note.

Notice the word "link" in the name of the product? Every single "topic" can contain (i.e. "link") one or all of the following:

An editable document similar to a Microsoft Word doc
An ink/drawing page that we like to use to show screenshots and design drawings (flowcharts and block diagrams)
One or more file attachments of any size that becomes part of the document
A hyperlink to a web site
A priority flag to indicate it it's Urgent, or can wait
A checkbox with a range of 0-100% that can indicate completion of the topic or acceptance by reviewers

This topic concept "chunk-ifies' information into an easy-to-read outline format that looks to the casual user like the table of contents in a book.

You can drag and drop an Excel spreadsheet, Powerpoint presentation or any OLE-compatible document directly into each topic...and view it in place.

There's an attachment feature to include ANY FILE on your PC into the document so you can send and file ONE document, not 15.

Hint: You can use it to embed JCVGantt Pro 2 Gantt charts and Mindmaps inside your Knowledge eBook!

We've found that the "chunks" of information allow whoever is reading your document to focus on one idea at a time, and just about everyone seems to have attention deficit disorder these days, so it helps improve comprehension and understanding of what's written. In our business that saves time and and time is money.

It's better for documentation than Microsoft Word because it stores information in an outline format that makes it easier to juggle information around.

For technical and legal writing in particular, the auto-numbering of topics makes the creation of a final Legal document in Microsoft word, easy. Lawyers can use the template feature to store boilerplates.

We've used it for bug-lists, issue-tracking, and whiteboard presentations.

It's a Swiss-army knife type of tool that you really must try to fully appreciate.

Keystrokes are almost identical to MindManager and it actually synchronizes with MindManager in real-time so you can run the two together as complementary products.

Affordable by everyone on your team.

At $129, every engineer, lawyer, manual writer, programmer, scientist and quality assurance can afford to own a copy.

Contact sales@iaresearch.com for volume licensing information.

Read more about the organization theory behind it:

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Use it to write, organize and communicate:

Notes

Tech Specs

Business plans

Legal documents

Requirements docs

ISO Quality manuals

or... simply as the best note-taker application you've ever used

Organize yourself first, then think... or.. was that think and then organize?

Humans can concentrate on a very few things at the same time. You might be able to juggle maybe 5 ideas at the same time, without some type of cyber-assistance.

When trying to do any type of analytic work that may require hundreds or thousands of ideas to be considered... whether it be writing a business plan, a project plan, an essay, a research paper, or even a novel... it's impossible to organize it all before you begin.

Knowledge Link lets you work both ways.

Built-in templates can help you think through problem solving issues, or you can design your own information structures as easily as creating the Table of Contents in a book.
Or... you can simply enter information free form, and then drag/drop the branches around to organize it later

Knowledge Link uses the concept of "Topics" to divide ideas into meaningful segments.

A topic can contain many things - paragraphs of text, an ink note, a drawing, project task information, photographs, any file attachment, even a Microsoft office document like a Powerpoint slide show.

Creating the sections is similar to authoring the Table of Contents of a book, then diving in to each section and filling it in....but you're permitted to go back and juggle the information until the order in which it's presented makes sense.

Support for MindManager users

One of our other products MindManager Pro 6 is an excellent tool for Visual brainstorming of ideas and Visual representation of information.

Knowledge Link excels at banking information in a format ideally suited for generating reports, manuals and sharing that information with colleagues.

For MindManager users - you can use Knowledge Links's DynaSync capability to interact directly with Mindmaps...in fact it's multimap mode will allow you to open MANY mindmaps at the same time, in the same Knowledge document.

This product is inexpensive enough that companies can easily afford a copy on everyone's desk.