A recent tip explained how to export a Personal Knowbase article as an HTML code snippet. What if you want to go in the other direction and import a snippet of HTML code from an HTML file to save in PK for future use as HTML code?
If you import the file as an HTML file, PK removes the HTML code and converts the formatting to its internal rich-text formatting. You end up with just the text without the HTML code.
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Teachers, are you ready for the new school season? For ideas about organizing your notes and records, see our previous post on how Personal Knowbase can help educators stay organized.
But Personal Knowbase can also help you share information with your students. Using the Personal Knowbase Reader software provides a handy way to distribute materials. Whether you’re in the classroom or teaching online from a virtual classroom, you need creative and secure ways to disseminate materials to your students.
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If you find yourself spending too much time on the phone, these tips can help streamline your phone time.
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One common use for Personal Knowbase is to store code snippets, specifically in this case HTML code snippets.
However, if you try to export an article containing HTML using the export file type HTML Files, you end up with garbage. For example, let’s say you have an article containing this text:
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Previously, we talked about setting up an effective backup routine to help prevent data loss in case of disaster. Backups are particularly important in times of uncertainty and rapid change, when your circumstances — even your hardware setup — need to be flexible.
Here are 4 more tips for keeping backups:
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In these days of large, cheap hard drives, most of us don’t feel any need to compact a database file to save disk space.
But Personal Knowbase’s Compact command does more than reduce your data file to its minimum size. Here are three additional tasks Compact can help you with:
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Whether you’re starting a home-based business, are temporarily working from home, or are teleworking, you need a functional home office that helps rather than hinders your work.
You need an office workspace that helps you work efficiently. You need effective time management. And you need to stay organized. Here are some ideas for dealing with the challenges of working at home.
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PK Tip: Copying Articles from One Knowbase File to Another
Sometimes you may find it useful to copy (or move) articles from one Knowbase data file to another. You may want to break a data file into two smaller files, or to create a new file containing only a small subset of the articles in a larger file (for example, to share those articles with a friend or colleague). Or you may want to move old, obsolete articles to an “archive” data file.
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Many of us are finding unstructured time on our hands while on lockdown, quarantine, or shelter in place. Our last post outlined general productivity tips to help cope during “Shelter in Place”.
If you decide to use your self-isolation time to start a project (or make progress on a previously languishing project), create a Personal Knowbase data file for it and collect all its notes in one place. Personal Knowbase’s freeform note management system can help with organizing the related notes, research, and records. Use it to keep track of related website accounts and online resources. Attach related files to the corresponding PK articles.
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Many of us are currently self-isolating, under orders to shelter in place, or under quarantine. Even if you’re still working from home, you probably have time on your hands when you would have been commuting, socializing, or running errands. Those not used to having a lot of unstructured time, trapped with only immediate family members, or even completely alone, can rapidly succumb to cabin fever.
You might feel like you’ve lost control of your life. Constant stress and loss of focus can lead to ennui.
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