Active Notebook: A Personal and Group Productivity Tool for Managing Information
Mark Torrance · 1995
This paper describes Active Notebook, a collection of software tools which work together to allow individuals to label document-based information with conceptual classifications, and organize these documents into a semantic taxonomy for later browsing and retrieval. Tools are also provided to support sharing documents and references with peers. Novel techniques for taxonomy sharing avoid the need for a single, global taxonomy to which everyone adheres. Ongoing work on active reminding is described. 1 Introduction More and more, we find ourselves in the information management business. This is especially true for people working on research, but it is apparent from reading popular press in other fields that the problem is pervasive. The number of commercial software tools for organizing and retrieving information is growing at a rapid pace. We introduce Active Notebook, another tool in this category, which takes as its goal to make it easy for users to gain high level semantic control ...