1. THE KNOWLEDGE MANAGER

The knowledge manager helps to collect and retrieve information in files.
The knowledge manager appears as a single window :

Window of the knowledge manager :

Sub-windows

2. THE CONTROLS COLUMN

The control column has only 2 buttons :

Button	Purpose	Before	After
GRAPHER	Switches TO the KM2 GRAPHER window To switch back : in the CONTROLS column
RESIZE	Changes the width of the NOTEPAD Hides the information window

3. THE NOTEPAD

3.1. Main drawbacks of usual editors and knowledge tools

The NOTEPAD is used to display search results, but not only.

Many drawbacks are visible when using search windows :

• the set of results cannot be easiliy copied or saved into a file.
• results need to be sorted, modified, etc
• results of search need to be presented in various ways.
• etc.

So the NOTEPAD was designed to be much more than a simple window for displaying results, or a simple text editor. It is in fact an interactive tool that keeps track of all interactions. BUT :

• the NOTEPAD contains PAGES
  • only one PAGE is displayed at any time
  • it is possible to switch through PAGES by using CTRL-WHEEL
  • each MODE has its own set of PAGES.
  • a new page is cretaed by each interaction which changes the NOTEPAD. (replace, search, reorder, walking through pages, etc).

The main idea of the NOTEPAD window are :

• It is a simple text editor, but not only.
• you can edit all intermediate

3.2. Description of the NOTEPAD

The NOTEPAD window has 2 panes :

NOTEPAD :

Sub-panes :

3.3. The TEXT pane

The basic operations is :

• Search for some information using the interactive search.
• the results are displayed in the NOTEPAD.

Selecting a file
double click left on the line with the file.
Once a file is selected, more operations are possible :
a double left-click selects the line :

• information about the file or the directory is displayed in the INFORMATION pane

• a click-right shows a sub menu :

  OPTIONS Purpose OPEN FILE, OPEN DIR Open the selected file/dir buttons >>>, >, <<< Shows / Hides the content of the selected dir one level (>) /all levels( >>>) SHOW ALL shows all results of search (only the first 50 files are shown by default). RESTAURER Used to reset links in a file global links --> local link activates the *complete* directive Very useful when building a new Block Of Knowledge. PRECISE show nodes or pages where the keywords from the serach are found. if XMIND file : display the successive branches of the tree if PPT file : displays the first page where the keywords appear NEW MEETING Used for generation of sucessive meetings. See the MEETINGS menu. NOTEPAD SYNTHESIS A physical complement to the PRECISE command : It will extract all subnodes and build an xmind file with these nodes. Very useful for synthesis purposes. FILES COMPRESS XMIND XMind files can become huge if edited multiple times, because history of changes is kept. This operation clers the history of successive editions. EXTRACT XMIND creates a dir with images, icons, texts, etc TOUCH COPY FILE NAME, DIR NAME copy to the clipboard ALL the NOTEPAD SHOW *.* all files in the current directory *.* / *.* all files in the directory and its sub-directories INSERT FILE inserts a file into the NOTEPAD

3.4. The BUTTON pane

3.4.1. General description

The button pane contains many options

Each button allows a modifictaion of the content or display of the NOTEPAD.

3.4.2. List of buttons

NUMBER OF LINES	displays the number of lines in the notepad (useful to know how many results of a search).
SEARCH	pressing the button will launch the search successively with the words presnt in the KEY+ line.
HIGHLIGHT	will highlight with different colours the words in the KEY+ line.
REPLACE a by b	a is the KEY+ input line b is in the INFO line special symbols ^p new line ^t tab
FILTER LINES	will filter lines containing / excluding the words in the KEY+ line.
BACK\\FORWARD ONE PAGE	displays previous next PAGE of the NOTEPAD.
SORTS	Sorts the NOTEPAD in ascending order. reverses the order of lines in the NOTEPAD
TREE	converts a list to tree and reciprocal allows to see more easily the structure of solutions and directories can be used also for other purposes, as long as there are separators. ⇨ ⇨
Dates	for every line where a directory or file exists, will add the date in front of it.
TREES TO EXCEL	allows to convert tables to trees and reciprocally Starting with : ⇨ ⇦ OR ⇨ ⇦ ⇨ ⇨ Starting with : The main advantage of these macros is that you can transfer data to/from excel.
COLUMNS	Keeps only first column Suppress first column Rotates columns Swaps columns 1 and 2
NUMBER LINES	⇨ ⇦
CLEARS PAGES	Clears all pages in the NOTEPAD Clears only this page
SOUND	Sound OFF/ON : KM2 can provide a simple oral feedback after some actions.
CASE SENSITIVE	Search in the NOTEPAD is case sensitive Smart : Sous-sujet 1
KEYBOARD	Displays external keyboard. Input is entered into the NOTEPAD at insertion point.

4. THE MENUS

The following indications are about what you can do with the main input line , and the file type selection buttons:


Just below is the "MODE selector" button which allows to choose a MODE :



You can get this mini help directly through the command line.

Action	result	note
type ?	opens this file in your web browser	only at the beginning of the line hit the key RETURN on the keyboard
HELP MENU	The help is available on the web also :	The on line HELP is updated on a regular basis it is opened in your browser

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4.1. THE KNOWLEDGE PROCESSOR

COMMON COMMANDS
These commands are available any time in all modes.

1. HISTORY OF COMMANDS

You can search in the past for your commands directly through the command line.

1.1. Presentation

Action	result	example	note
? a1 a2 ...	lists the history of commands that contain a1, a2, ...	?open dir ?open file km2 ?search gutenberg	may take several seconds all commands are stored and can be searched type the key RETURN on the keyboard

1.2. Example

Have you made in the past some search about Gutenberg ?

==> You searched in 3 different ways about Gutenberg

2. ABREVIATIONS

Abreviations are shortcuts for longer text

2.1. define an abreviation

NAME	syntax	result	example	note
!ab	!ab xxx yyy	defines abreviation/shortcut xxx for yyy	!ab wiken site:www.wikipedia.org
!abs	!abs	shows all abreviations		may take several seconds
!abx	!abx xxx	delete abreviation xxx	!abx wiken

2.2. use an abreviation

the principle is to type the abreviation, then the escape key :

• xxx + Escape_Key --> yyy

2.3. example

Sequence :

1. define the abreviation 'wik'
   
2. enter the text in the command line
   
3. hit the ESCAPE KEY. The command line is now :
   

KM2 INTERACTIVE