Aspect |
Information has aspects. E.g. a table has the following
aspects: height, width, depth, material, color etc. An item in a project
plan might have the aspects: Who, When, Where, Priority, Status. |
Column view |
A special type of view (window in i2Brain) which is divided
into columns to increase the user's understanding of the information. |
Context menu |
The menu that appears when you press the right mouse-key. |
Description |
The long text which can be entered in the bottom panel of a
view to describe the currently selected item. |
Dimension |
Synonymous with "Aspect". |
Filter |
A filter allows you to hide items which are unimportant at
the moment, or simply aren't relevant to the current view. |
Hide |
This function makes items invisible according to their
links. |
Item |
The basic unit of information in i2Brain. |
Link |
Items can be linked. Links are displayed as arrows. See also
"Part". |
Menu item |
A line in a menu. |
Mouse |
A small hairy rodent. |
Name of an item |
The main (first and top) text in an item. The text shown when no aspects are
shown. |
"Part" |
One item can be related to another in that the second is a
"part" of the first. This relationship is shown using a red
arrow. |
Select |
One or more items can be selected. They can then be dragged
to another position or deleted. |
URL |
"Universal Resource Locator". An
"address" of a file, usually associated with web sites, but can
also be any file "file:/anyfile.txt" |
View |
Any window in i2Brain which isn't the main window. See also
"Column view". |