Simulating Index Card "Stacks" with Personal Knowbase

While using Personal Knowbase, at times you may want to keep track of an arbitrary set of working articles. For example, you may want to save the results of a Find or Build Query operation that you want to use as a starting point for some other work. Or perhaps they're a group of articles that you've imported that require further processing. These articles may not already share any keywords, but you want to do more work with them.

If you view your Personal Knowbase articles as index cards, the idea is to sort out a "stack" of index cards that you want to continue to work with.

PK Tip: Finding Articles Related to an Entire Keyword Group

Taken literally, keyword groups contain keywords, not articles. However, you can easily locate all articles which are associated with any keywords which are members of an entire keyword group.

PK Tip: Finding Articles Which Have No Keywords

Sometimes, in the rush of creating and saving articles, you may forget to assign keywords to every article. Or, you may delete a keyword, leaving an article with no keywords, if that was the article's only keyword.

However it happens, over time, you may discover that you have articles in your Personal Knowbase data file which do not have keywords assigned to them.

You can easily locate any articles with no keywords:

PK Tip: When the Titles Column Is "Outdated"

In Personal Knowbase, you may sometimes notice that the header of the Titles column in the Index Window includes the word "Outdated" in square brackets.