Topics, Categories, Tags & Links

By classifying information according to how you think of it, Categories and Topics can provide logical structure to your journal information. You can use Categories and Topics to directly query, search, and browse your journal information. In the background, Now & Then uses your Topic and Category lists to associate, contrast, classify, and group your journal's content.    

You build your list of Categories from concepts and aspects of your life that have broad meaning and that will persist and endure over time. Topics, on the other hand, are often ad hoc and created on the fly to designate information that has captured your current interest and attention. For example, you might assign the "more" focused Topics of "senior prom" , "emergency dancing lessons", or "my two dates to the senior prom" to the Category, "High School".

A Topic might be a current project, exercise program, travel plans, or a personal philosophy. You may assign journal information to multiple Categories and Topics. You also decide what to include in your personal Category and Topic lists.

Now & Then can:

• "Ask" if you want to assign entries to a Topic, Category, or Collection,
• automatically assign a passage or entire entry, or
• "suggest" an assignment.

Collections
You can also use Collections to group and classify information. Examples of Collections include:

As you browse and query your journal, Categories, Topics, and Collections enable you to better focus on information that is contextually relevant to your current interest.

                                                       Continued: Assignments & Auto Assign

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