Fighting information overload with TreePad

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Fighting information overload with TreePad

• Chris Dillon
• Faculty Information Support Officer
• for Arts Humanities and Laws

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Overview

• Information overload
• What is TreePad?
• Application of TreePad
• Add a note (node)

• Expand/Collapsea node
• Edit a node
• Move a node
• Further information

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Information overload

• Where does your important information live?
• Scattered across e-mails, Word files etc.?
• Can you find it quickly / at all?
• Wouldnt it be wonderful if you could bring
  ittogether in one place!

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What is TreePad?

• With TreePad you can
• TreePad is note-taking software
• Creates a hierarchy of notes
• Easy to copy data into and out of TreePad

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Applications

• Ordering ideas for writing
• Notes on research
• Notes on meetings
• To do lists
• Notes on software
• And many, many more

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Starting TreePad

• On WTS, go to Start Software Programs S-Z
  TreePad Treepad
• On a stand-alone PC, you can download afree
  version of TreePad fromwww.treepad.com

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To add a node

• Press the Insert key in the node above whichyou
  wish to add the new node.

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To expand or collapse a node

• You can click the little "" to expand the
  node(in the left part of the screen).
• You can click the little "-" to collapse a node.

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To edit a node

• To edit the contents of a node, just click in
  itsright pane and edit as you would in Word etc.
• To rename a node, click it, wait and click it
  againNow you can edit the name.Press Enter when
  youve finished.
• If you want to delete a node, Click the node and
  press Delete.

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To move a node under another node

• Click the node you want to move.
• While holding the mouse button, drag the node to
  the destination node and release the mouse button.

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To move a node

• Hold the Shift key down.
• Click the node you want to move.
• Drag the node onto the node after which you want
  it to appear.
• The difference with the previous command is that
  the node will appear just after (NOT below) the
  destination node.

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Consider the following nodes
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I dragged Three onto Four
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I Shift-dragged Three onto Two
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Saving

• Press Ctrl-S every 5 mins to save your data.

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Links

• You can put links to
• Other TreePad nodes
• Files on your system
• URLs

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Printing

• To print a single TreePad article, go to File
  Print Article i.e. node.
• To print part of a tree, select the top-most node
  of what you want to print and go to File Print
  Nodes and articles.

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Searching TreePad

• Highlight any node in the left pane.
• Press Ctrl-F.
• It is usually best to have Subtree, Nodes and
  Articles selected under What to search.
• Type a search term in the Search text box.

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Notes

• This simple program may changethe way you work.
• It makes you more systematic.

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Further information

• See
• the manuals on WTS at Start Software Programs
  S-Z TreePad
• www.ucl.ac.uk/is/documents
• www.treepad.com.
• Apple Mac versionhttp//jreepad.sourceforge.net/