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Organizing & Synthesizing Information
  1. Getting started with Inspiration
  2. Organize Your Paper/Speech

Now that you've got ALL the facts and thoughts that you might use in your paper, use the outliner to organize them. This will make writing much easier and better!

 

Choose a View

Diagram View (better for mind-mapping) OR
Outline View (better for taking lots of notes)

Note: With Inspiration, you can switch from view to view anytime you want.

Just click on or to switch.

Make a Structure

In Diagram View, the structure will be in symbols, and the notes will come off of them.
In Outline View, the structure will be the topics of an outline, which you can re-arrange any time you want.

Use Inspiration and a Web-Browser

In Diagram View, it works best to use the task bar (PC) or Application Menu (Mac) to flip between the programs.
In Outline View, it works well to split the screen, so you can see both windows at once.

Now, you're all set up to take notes (Look, ma, no paper!!)

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Last modified: October, 2003 by Steinke, Ague, Feuerhelm, Maxwell, and Warburg