… ; *Hypertext; Knowledge Acquisition This paper discusses "Notes," a hypertext application
program … investigate the effects of computers on the writing process generally, and in particular …

… We ask participants to use the Notes program to take notes and write their essays. In both
training and work sessions, WC ask participants to thinkaloud as they work and we record …

… Figure 1 depicts a screen from a note-taking program we have already implemented called
Notes [Neuw87].2 The program allows writers to take notes on source texts, either hard copy …

… A hypertext system extends text along several dimensions. … technologies support the writer
in creating the “notes on cards… material from other sources, such as text files, into frames. …

… to expect structure in text, our conception of text as an orderly … from a set of source texts
and even the texts in any one given … Tompa note that, because converting a text into hypertext …

… between the text fragments in the hypertext. Having selected an … Like note-cards, hypertext
nodes may be accessed in any … represent a single text or hypermedia source of information. …

… note cards were linked to each page using HyperCard buttons (see Figure 1). Goal-statement
note cards provided an edit field to list one's writing … Students could highlight the text they …

… from the writer’s memory or from external sources, identifying … He or she must also note
parallel relations among similar … the system will support additional text editors as well as editors …

… the idea of nonsequentially read and written text. Today, … of hypertext, link sources are
individual text items or icons and … text, which could even be from a file external to Guide • note links …

… from texts into bibliographic databases, personal notes, and so … hypertext system, supported
some aspects of the OHCO text … text fles, many sources of data corruption can be avoided. …