Automatic & User Assignment

Journal information may be assigned to multiple Categories, Topics, and Collections using from drop-down lists, or by dragging. It can also be assigned automatically―according to your rules.

You can build rules to define associations, links, and relationships and assign journal information to one or many Categories, Topics, and Collections. For example, if a journal entry contains the words "walked" and "miles", you may want to automatically assign it to your "Exercise" Category. All Rules, Categories, Topics, and Collections are fully customizable. You can Add, Delete, Modify, and Rename any of them as their relevance to your interests, focus, and life changes.

Your worldview is described in Now & Then by your rules, KnowledgeMaps, journal content, and meta data. Its description constantly changes as you add to and modify this "source" information. In the background, Now & Then uses its understanding of your worldview to assign and group information. It monitors your journal entries and can alert you to topics and associated memoirs that might relate to your current focus. You can set alerts based on themes and threshold levels or you can let Now & Then make "good guesses" regarding the things about which you wish to be alerted.

Tools for focus
Now & Then has a number of tools to speed navigation and provide subject matter structure, context, and focus.

Tags
Tagged journal information may be assigned, moved, highlighted, copied and gathered, or deleted―immediately, or when you've finished your search and review. Tags are generally temporary and used during a search or a research project.

Bookmarks
Bookmarks are more long-lived than Tags and are used to provide focus and for navigation.

Marking
Marked journal information can also be Tagged, Highlighted, or Linked to other journal (or online) information.

Highlighting
You can Highlight passages for later action or to emphasize and guide your train of thought.

Links
Journal information can be Linked to other journal memoirs or to "external " information on your computer, a network, or the Internet. You can create Links manually, on-the-fly , or construct rules to automatically link journal information based on terms, phrases, concepts, and associations.

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