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Tutorial There are six commands on the reference card indented one level under NEW: UP, DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT, PARAGRAPH, and MODE. They correspond to six of the options on ThinkTank’s NEW Com— mand menu and they allow you to specify what kind of new material to add and where. Press N (the command key for NEW) to display this menu, which is shown in Figure 3—5. There is a seventh option on the NEW Command Menu —— ESCAPE —— that’s not listed under NEW on your reference card. That’s because ThinkT
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Living Videotext, Inc. ThinkTank Manual Program by: David Winer with assistance from: Jonathan Liewellyn Manual by: John Unger Zussman with assistance from: David Greene
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Software: Copyright Cc) 1983 Living Videotext. Inc. All rights reserved Copyright (c) 1981 Apple Computer, Inc. Parts of this software are copyrighted by The Regents of the University of California, 1979 Manual: Copyright (c) 1983 Living Videotext, Inc. All rights reserved Living Videotext, Inc.; Apple Computer, Inc.; and the Regents of the University of California make no warranties, either ex- press or implied, regarding the enclosed computer software package, its merchantability or its
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Table of Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS PART I: LEARNING ABOUT THINKTANK 1 Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION TO THINKTANK 1 Box 1—1: Sample Uses of ThinkTank 2 The Outline Approach 3 Overview of the ThinkTank Manual 5 Support 6 Copy Protection and Software Piracy 7 Chapter 2: THINKTANK ON APPLE PERSONAL COMPUTERS 9 System Requirements 9 Tour of the Apple Keyboards 11 Starting Up ThinkTank 14 Don’t Write—Protect Your Working Disks 25 Exiting From ThinkTank 25 Speci
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ThinkTank Manual Reorganizing an Outline 63 Printing an Outline 66 Creating a New Outline 66 Concluding Note 68 Box 4-1: Printing with 'Uppercase Computers 69 Chapter 5: USING THINKTANK: NOTES AND SUGGESTIONS 71 General Advice 71 Getting Started 72 Getting A
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Table of Contents LIST OF FIGUKES AND TABLES Figure 1—1: Product Plan Outline 4 Figure 1—2: ThinkTank Product Plan Outline 6 Figure 2—1: Apple II Keyboard Figure 2—2: 11 Figure 2—2: Apple IIe Keyboard 12 Figure 2—3: Apple III Keyboard 13 Figure 2—4: ThinkTank Date Display 16 Figure 2—5: Setting the Date 17 Figure 2—6: ThinkTank Sample Outline 19 Figure 2—7: FILES Command Menu 20 Figure 2—8: EXISTING FILE Menu 21 Figure 2—9: Exit Screen 26 Figure 3—1: ThinkTank Screen
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PART I LEARNING ABOUT THINKTANK Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION TO THINKTANK ThinkTank (tm) is a visual tool for working with ideas and information on your personal computer. The ThinkTank program uses the familiar format of an outline to help you generate, organize, store, and retrieve ideas with remarkable ease and efficiency. It is the first idea processor. ThinkTank is flexible; you can apply it in many ways. It can serve as your: * notebook * address book * appointment calendar * card file * fil
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ThinkTank Manual ------------------------------------------------------------------ Box 1—1 Sample Uses of ThinkTank The applications of ThinkTank are as unlimited as your imagination. Here are a few of its many uses: Business and Professional Scientific and Technical * Action lists * Bibliographies * Appointment calendars * Computer programs * Business plans * Curriculum vitae * Catalogues * Grant proposals * Checklists * Journal articles * Client records * Monographs * Corpo
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Introduction THE OUTLINE APPROACH The key to the power and flexibility of ThinkTank is its outline approach to organizing information. The outline ap- proach mirrors our natural way of processing information. Sup- pose this morning when you came to work you learned that: There is snow on the ground Your car needs gas The price of gas is up again The stack market is down It is cold The consumer price index is up Your boss is absent When you think about this information, you don’t think of it as
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ThinkTank Manual Product type: alcoholic beverage Primary market: young adults Taste: sweet and fruity Position: high Status and sophisticated But random thoughts do not make a product plan; they must be arranged into a coherent, persuasive document. So you might organize your thoughts into an outline as shown in Figure 1—1. With an outline it is easy to find information. For example, if you want to examine your ideas on product positioning, you can go straight to the section on marketing
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Introduction colleague, you may have to decipher your handwriting or (worse) have it typed. Outlines on paper can be major hassles. Figure 1—2 shows the same outline as ThinkTank might display it on your computer screen. (This is actually an ex- cerpt from a larger outline included with the ThinkTank program and used as an example in this manual.) Unlike a paper outline, a ThinkTank outline is easy to work with because it is freeform, flexible, and controllable. You can readily: * examine
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ThinkTank Manual Figure 1—2: ThinkTank Product Plan Outline The first part is called Learning About ThinkTank. Fol- lowing this introduction, Chapter 2 describes how to start up and begin to operate ThinkTank on your computer. Chapter 3 gives you a brief tour of ThinkTank and contains essential in- formation about using it. Chapter 4 is a tutorial which shows you how to learn about ThinkTank and introduces you to its most important commands. Once you have learned the basics, Chapt
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Introduction If you have questions or problems that the manual does not resolve, check with your dealer. ThinkTank dealers are trained to configure the program to your computer system, provide guidance and information, solve problems, and help you get the most out of ThinkTank. Living Videotext, Inc., is committed to supporting Think— Tank. If you have a question that your dealer can’t resolve, or if you purchased your copy of ThinkTank directly from Living Videotext, please feel free to c
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ThinkTank Manual Some software companies have chosen to combat piracy by making their programs impossible to copy. We decided against such copy protection because it could prevent you from getting the full benefit of ThinkTank. There are legitimate reasons for you to make copies.of ThinkTank —— to back up your program disk in case it becomes damaged, for example. Copy protection also increases the cost of a program. We believe strongly in this open policy, but it’s risky. We will reevalua
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Apple Versions Chapter 2 THINKTANK ON APPLE PERSONAL COMPUTERS ThinkTank comes in three different versions for Apple com- puters: one for the Apple II and II Plus; one for the Apple IIe; and one for the Apple III. This chapter contains inform- ation and instructions for each version. It covers: * system requirements * the Apple keyboards * starting up ThinkTank * exiting from ThinkTank * special considerations for Apple computers Make sure you have the right version of ThinkTank for your com- p
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ThinkTank Manual * a video monitor (preferable) or television set (and adapter) * a printer (recommended but not required) On the Apple II, ThinkTank uses the simple 40—column, uppercase—only display. If you have an 80—column card, Think— Tank will automatically switch it off or ask you to do so. The Apple II version of ThinkTank will also run on an Ap- ple IIe computer -in 40—column, uppercase mode. However, if you have an Apple 80—Column Text Card in your Apple IIe, you should obtain the
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Apple Versions * the video monitor supplied with the Apple III * the System Utilities Disk supplied with the Apple III * a printer (recommended but not required) TOUR OF THE APPLE KEYBOARDS The keyboards of the Apple II, Apple IIe, and Apple III computers are illustrated in Figures 2—1, 2—2, and 2—3. They are very much like a typewriter —— with some important excep- tions. Apple computers have several keys. that are not found on a standard typewriter, and ThinkTank uses some standard keys in
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ThinkTank Manual “Reproduced by permission of Apple Computer, Inc. 1983” Figure 2—2: Apple IIe keyboard itself, but it is often used with other keys to give ThinkTank commands. For example, you give the com- mand CTRL—D, which is used to delete text in Think— Tank’s text editor, by holding down the CTRL key and pressing D. You must press the CTRL key first and must not release it before pressing D. The CTRL key is sometimes abbreviated by the caret ("^“) symbol, as in ^D. * SHIFT: As
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Apple Versions “Reproduced by permission of Apple Computer, Inc. 1983” Figure 2—3: Apple III Keyboard * CAPS LOCK or ALPHA LOCK: [Apple IIe and III only] A shift lock key. Once you press it, all letters are capitalized until you press it again. * OPEN—APPLE: [Apple IIe and III only] Not used in ThinkTank. * SOLID—APPLE: [Apple IIe and III only] On the Apple III, accelerates the repeating effect of holding down a key. Not used in ThinkTank on the Apple IIe. * SPACE BAR: The space bar is used
