You should not be on your own when learning something new, but your notes should be your own. 6things allows people to build their personal understandings "off the shoulders of giants."
- Pull items from other notebooks into your own notebook.
- Receive updates when pulled items are modified by their authors
- Follow other notebooks for the latest information and inspiration
Current methods of collaboration allow members to override the contributions of others. With 6things, you are the sole author of your own item, and notebooks can consist of the items of multiple collaborators.
- Comment on other collaborators' items
- Items are very small segments of information, ensuring close collaboration
- Each notebook can have any number of items
- Notebooks privacy options: public, private, access list, or organization
- 6 types of items: text, images, videos, web pages, lists and tables
- Text items are limited to 250 words each
- Image/video/web page/list/table items are limited to 1 image/video/etc. each
- Each item can have up to 10 tags
- #image, #text, #video #webpage #table #list are all standard tags.
- Filter all the items in a notebook by tag or author
- If an item is pulled from another notebook, filter is based on original author
- Each item has the following features: edit, delete, add next item, comment, and pull to my notebook
- Items can be dragged and dropped to change the order of items in a notebook
- There is a tab called reference updates, which will list all the updates made to the reference documents
- Users can either ignore the updates or pull the updates
- Users can also add notebooks to their library, which is meant for users that would not like to create their own notebook, but are instead interested in the information contained in another author's notebook
- This is different than following a notebook, which is meant to show updates to the users in a stream format, which can be pulled into their own notebooks