TrueThinker.com has several main tabs:
The MyTrueThinker tab is designed to be the hub of your web experience giving you quick access to everything you do on TrueThinker and elsewhere on the web. It is modular so you can customize your page to suit your preferences.
My KnowledgeBank tab allows you to import and manage your favorites and add other webpages and categories you find important. Saving webpages to this section lets you easily capture and, through the customized search engine, retrieve your information. Think of this as searching your personal internet. You can also upload documents and photos to MyKnowledgeBank so they’re available to you wherever you are.
My Communities tab is an opportunity for you to join groups of people with the same interests to share resources such as web pages, documents and photos and hold discussions, publicly or privately.
My Account tab provides access to everything you need to manage your account, whether it’s changing your password or updating your credit card.
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My TrueThinker
My TrueThinker is designed to be the hub of your web experience, giving you quick access to everything you do on TrueThinker and elsewhere on the web. You can customize My TrueThinker to include the information you want or need through RSS feeds, hotlinks to any site on the web, and quick access to all of your friends and their resources in TrueThinker. This is the first page that you will see when you log in to TrueThinker; you should consider it your personal homepage. From here you can search within your own TrueThinker categories and communities, within the TrueThinker community at large or the World Wide Web using your search engine of choice.
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Add/Restore Content
This area allows you to add sections to My TrueThinker which interest you.
Clicking the X on any of the modules closes it and pulls it into the Add/Restore Content section. If you would like a module back later, simply click on the desired module within Add/Restore Content, and it will reappear on the My TrueThinker web page
You can position any of these modules simply by dragging and dropping them wherever you want on your screen.
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Welcome to TrueThinker
This module greets new users and helps them begin to configure their account.
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My Knowledge Bank
Within My Knowledge Bank you will see a listing of your categories. You can click on the + to the left of the category title to see all of the sites and sub-categories under that category. Or you can click directly on the category name which will take you to an organization page on My Knowledge Bank tab with all the titles and links of the web sites stored under that category.
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My Communities
This is a listing of all the communities to which you belong. If you do not belong to any communities, click on the My Communities tab and find a community that shares your interests. Or create your own community!
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Invite a Friend, Earn Rewards
Do you have friends, family or colleagues you believe should be TrueThinkers? Well, this module allows you to invite your friends and earn a 50% referral ($12.50) for each new subscriber.
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TrueThinker Press Center
If you want to keep up with the latest TrueThinker news and press releases, visit this section.
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Add Link
If you would like to add a link manually, you can use the Add Link module on My TrueThinker
Add a page title, then the URL. You can choose to have TrueThinker categorize this site for you by selecting Quick Add which will automatically or autonomously categorize the web page, or you can use the drop-down menu that will show you all your existing categories and then just select the category in which the site should go. To create a new category, type its name into the Create a New Category field. You can also share this new link with a community. Finally, use the boxes to indicate whether you would like to add this to your Hot Links.
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My Messages
The Message Center is where you receive system notifications and messages about your activities within TrueThinker and its communities.
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My Hot Links
Your Hot Links list should be comprised of a few sites that you actually use every day, or so often that you’d want them to be available with one click–the equivalent of something you’d put on your desktop.
When you save a site to TrueThinker using the Add Link button, you can also just check Add to My Hot Links and then click Save information. You can also find an item in your KnowledgeBank and click Make a Hot Link next to it.
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My Recent Additions
This is an active list of the most recent sites that you have added to your category listings.
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My RSS Feeds
Here, you will find the news to which you have subscribed. You can add RSS Feeds manually or from our pre-selected list. Delete news feeds at any time by clicking on the Manage RSS Feeds link in this module.
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My Local Time
Shows the local time, as reported by your computer.
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My Recent Searches
This shows the last 10 searches you performed on TrueThinker or through the TrueThinker toolbar. It tells what you searched for and which search engine (e.g. TrueThinker, Google, etc.) you used.
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My Weather
This shows a local weather report based on the zip code you entered during the setup process. If you would like to change locations (great when you are traveling!) simply enter a new zip code.
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My Mood
TrueThinker lets you choose how you want to organize My TrueThinker and what you want it to look like. The My Mood tool allows you to change the color scheme of TrueThinker according to your mood! Change it as often as you like.
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My Trash
My Trash functions much like the recycle bin on your computer desktop . Anytime you delete something, it goes into My Trash but is retrievable later. If you would like to delete a link, simply click on it and select Delete. You will see it in My Trash. You can retrieve anything out of My Trash at any time. If you click on Empty Trash, all of the links will be removed from My Trash and will no longer be available for retrieval.
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My Photo Album
Photos saved on your computer can be uploaded and saved to your True Thinker Photo Album by clicking Upload Photo. You can view your Photo Album by clicking View Album.
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Search Field
Next to the TrueThinker logo is a search field that provides easy access to quick searches.
On the top of the search field are two choices – TrueThinker or The Web. Clicking on TrueThinker allows you to conduct a search within the TrueThinker Community and the existing favorites you’ve imported or created. Conducting this type of search results in a list of website links and descriptions within your TrueThinker site. Below the search field you will have two additional choices from which to conduct your search-–My KnowledgeBank or My Communities.
The second type of search, activated when you choose The Web, allows you to conduct external searches using Google, Yahoo or MSN search engines. When you choose The Web, notice that the choices below the search field will change and reflect the different search engines. Choose a search engine, and conduct your search.
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My Knowledge Bank
As you use TrueThinker, you are doing more than simply collecting a few bookmarks. You are saving everything that interests you, organizing it the way you will use it, and taking the first step to a more intelligent use of the web, one where the work you do isn’t lost every time you close your browser, and where the AutoGnome within TrueThinker is simultaneously learning who you are and what you like which ultimately helps you to make the most of your time online.
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Manage Folders
The My KnowledgeBank tab controls all of your categories with various functions that allow you to edit, add sub-categories, delete categories and manage links.
Add top level category – If you need a new category, just click here, fill in the new category title and add any keywords you would like to associate with the category.
Edit – allows you to change the title of the category or add or remove keywords associated with this category by clicking Edit.
Add Sub-category – Some categories with many links or multiple topics may need one or more sub-categories for organizational purposes. For example, under the Baby category, you might like to add a sub-category for baby clothes.
Manage Links –Clicking Manage Links brings you to the Category View for the category you selected. From this screen you can modify any of the links in this category. You can edit, move the link to another category, share the link with one of the communities that you are a member of, make this link a hot link or delete the link completely. You can also view the cached version of this link.
View Quickly Added Items –. Clicking on View Quickly Added Items at the top of this page will show you where TrueThinker placed any of the links it categorized for you . If you are using Quick Add from your Toolbar, make sure to review these placements and make any necessary changes so that you can help make TrueThinker more accurate for you. The AutoGnome also learns by watching where you move uncategorized or the occasional mis-categorized items. You can view the text information that TrueThinker used to categorize this link by clicking on the cached version. TrueThinker takes a snapshot of each page it examines and caches (stores) that version as a back-up. The cached version is what TrueThinker uses to judge if a page is a good match for a query.
Practically every search result includes a cached link. Clicking on that link takes you to the TrueThinker cached version of that web page instead of the current version of the page. This is useful if the original page is unavailable because of Internet congestion; an unavailable, overloaded, or slow website or the owner’s having recently removed the page from the Web. If TrueThinker returns a link to a page that appears to have little to do with your query, or if you can’t find the information you’re seeking on the current version of the page, take a look at the cached version.
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Upload Documents
Within My KnowledgeBank you’ll see an area called Upload Documents. Here, you can upload documents to store on TrueThinker for easy access from anywhere in the world. You can upload any document, including Word and pdf. docs as well as Excel spreadsheets and photographs
Use the browse button to select a document on your computer. Add a title for the document, then select an existing category or create a new category in which you want the document stored. You can also share this new link with a community or make the document available as a Hot Link.
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Category View
Inside each of your categories you will see a list
of all of the sites and documents you have saved, along with a series of
options for each of those resources.
Edit – This page allows you to move a resource from one category to another,
change the name, change the websites address, share it with one of your communities, make
it into a Hot Link, or edit how often the site is re-visited.
Cached Version – The cached version of a site is a copy of the text from that site on the day you saved it. This will be available even if the original site goes offline. This is the text TrueThinker uses when you search your KnowledgeBank. To update the searchable text, you can select how often TrueThinker revisits the site (daily, weekly, or monthly) from the edit menu.
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Quickly Added Items
From the Quickly Added Items screen you can perform all of the actions available in a
normal category including moving, sharing, deleting, making an item a Hot Link or viewing
a cached version of that page. You can see the category which each site is in, and
easily move them to another category if Quick Add did not place them where you would have. Again, the AutoGnome learns from its mistakes, so be sure to move an item into the category where you would have saved it.
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My Communities
With My Communities you can enhance your own online work and begin to collaborate with friends and partners around the world. Share sites, documents, photos or just leave messages for your friends.
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Finding a Community
TrueThinker gives you two simple ways to find a community.
You can search the names and descriptions of available communities, or
you can browse through our categories of communities.
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Starting a Community
If you wish to create new community, click on the My Communities tab at
the top of your TrueThinker. Then locate the Start your own Community link and
click there. You will be asked to select a category to help other users find
your community. Then fill out some basic information about your community, such as
title, description, whether it is public or private, and you’re done. Now start
inviting your friends!
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My Communities
This is a listing of all the communities to which you belong. If you do not currently belong to any communities, you might want to click on My Communities and find some that share your interests.
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Community View
Inside each of the communities is the group’s home page, which will help you keep track of recent activity within the community. It will also provide navigation through the wide variety of resources available within the community. These resources include Our KnowledgeBank, comprised of all of the resources the members of the community have shared; Messages (which allows you to communicate with all other members of a community); Shared Photos; and Shared Documents.
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MyAccount
This tab provides access to everything you need to manage your account,
whether it’s changing your password or updating your credit card.
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Set Up Account
You will have seen this page when you first registered for TrueThinker,
but in case you need to revisit the setup options they’re here.
Import your Bookmarks – If you want to organize and categorize your links or you want to have your favorites/bookmarks within TrueThinker, importing your favorites/bookmarks into My KnowledgeBank is an easy and convenient way to do it. It also provides an excellent way to start building your KnowledgeBank.
Download the TrueThinker Toolbar – The TrueThinker Toolbar allows you to effortlessly save any and all sites you find interesting with a single click into a category and/or a community. The toolbar is essential for quick additions that, in turn, train the AutoGnome, which is the basis of TrueThinker’s intelligent organization functionality.
Make TrueThinker your Homepage – Making TrueThinker your home page allows you to quickly access all the sites you have visited during the day. It gives you one-click access to e-mail content, news items, journal articles or any other web pages you have saved, and it saves you the trouble of remembering web addresses.
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Profile Information
This page allows you to change your name, security question, password,
or the email address associated with your account.
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Payment Information
This page allows you to control all of your payment settings, including your subscription
type and the credit card used. You can also keep track of all of your past account payments.
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Preferences
Preferences allow you to control the look of TrueThinker and whether or not you want sites
you’ve saved and search results to open new windows.
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