Excogito

organize your library

Escape directories full of files with names that you no longer recognize or know what project they belong to.

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Directories

Give your directories human readable names. Use the title of the article to find it, not some obscure file name. 1

topics

Create topics that group articles that are relevent to each of your projects.

Don't worry about trying to keep all of the articles for one topic in the same directory, just create a topic and attach articles to it.

keywords

Create your own ontology, use keywords that are relevant to your work. 2

Bibliographic information

Add in the bibliographic information that helps you find the article or reference you are looking for.

The first page of the article is displayed, so there is no need to flip between windows while adding the article to your library.

Read and add information

Use the built-in pdf reader that focuses on ease of navigation and annotation. The reader is designed for both a quick skim of the article as well as in-depth critical reading.

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navigation

>Page based and paragraph based navigation. Go directly to pages by entering page number, clicking on page icon, or using bookmarks. Go directly to a paragraph by clicking on an annotation. 1

annotations

Make structured notes. RWR's unique simple sentence annotation methodolgy makes for insightful notes and easy retrieval. See Annotation for more detail.

Highlight the sentence your annotation references, then you can jump directly too that location when needed. 2

keywords

Add keywords as you read, not just when you added the article to the library. 3

bookmarks

Use bookmarks as a way to navigate within a document. Set bookmarks for major headings or figures, then quickly move about the document. 4

bibliographic information

Update bibliographic information as needed, not just when you added the article to the library.

Annotation

RWR uses an annotation system based on a Structured Simple Sentence (SSS) with an extended description. RWR is based on the principle that you have to read and understand in order to extract meaning from a passage of text. See "How to Read a Book" for further insights into reading for a purpose. You will find that a SSS annotation will give you the ability to target meaning to a specific paragraph. Much more powerful than keywords which refer to the document in its entirety.

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Structured Annotation

Using a structured simple sentence requires you to distill the essence of a passage of text into searchable notes. 1

discussion

While the SSS annotation captures the claim of a text passage, the description allows you to elaborate with your comments and interpretation. 2

tags

Tags are simply a way of identifying a passage of text that the annotation refers to. 3

Navigation by Annotation

Use Annotations to navigate within an article, and also when in Retrieve mode. 4

Retrieve the notes, find the reference

RWR provides the tools to now find that notes and references that you have read, but you don't know where it is in that directory of files.

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Filters

Start typing into one of the filter boxes and the list will dynamically show only those articles that match. 1

Selection

When you select a directory, keyword or annotation, the article list is then sorted based on that selection. The reverse also works, select an article and the directory, keywords, and annotations for that article are highlighted. 2

Live reference

If you want to go directly to the passage of text an annotation refers to, select the annotation, then select the article, and the Read tab will open with the annotation tag highlighted. 3