Learning How To Use IdeaMason

Posted by Gary Carson
May 22, 2008 at 07:48 PM

Thanks. Actually that’s very helpful. I had no idea if I was supposed to create a portfolio or whatever first, the way you have to create notebooks in OneNote before you can start adding sections and individual pages.

All I’ve done so far is create a portfolio for my project. I’m assuming that the portfolio is the top-level container. And I created one source just to see how it worked, a dictionary definition with a web link. The embedded browser is a nice feature.

If I understand this correctly, it looks like I can start almost anywhere and then organize everything later, linking sources to text, assigning categories, whatever. I haven’t tried the composition editor yet, but I guess I could just start writing drafts for chapters and sections and put them into order later. Does that sound right?

I’m just trying to get a feel for the procedures involved here. Learning all the features will take time, but that’s no problem once I get the big picture. So far, it sounds like I can just start adding information at random without organizing it into a larger structure. Is the library the main repository for “loose” material? Should I be working mostly in the library at this stage?

Thanks again for your help.