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Welcome to Knotebooks Beta !

Expansion

That's right, we said beta, and as you can see, we're only just beginning to collect content, develop new technologies and test our platform.

But as the accompanying diagram plainly shows, we are currently undergoing rapid expansion, feverishly gathering feedback and planning new features and tools. Stick with us, watch the site evolve, and be in on the ground floor of the next step in online education.

In the meantime...

Browse some knotebooks and check out how we do things around here. The idea is simple: online education should reflect the way we learn in the Internet Age. No one wants to spend hours trolling through Wikipedia or Google search results. Information should be succinct, accessible and (gasp!) customizable.

Read more about our company and our mission here.

With our current functionality, you can view a knotebook, swap out the knotes you don't want with better material and save your hand-crafted version to your favorites! Or... create a knotebook from scratch. Pull in the best multimedia content from all over the Web and mix it with your own work to start contributing.

Create an account for free , fill out your profile page and poke around a little!


Currently in the Works

We have big ideas for this platform and we hope you find in it a truly useful and encouraging source for online education. We believe that the only way to do this is with powerful, student-focused tools, so here are some of the features we'll be rolling out very soon:

  • A simple LaTeX equation editor to more easily generate beautifully rendered math in your knotebooks;
  • Content import which allows a user to pull in an entire document, insert line breaks and publish a new knotebook in minutes;
  • A dynamic request system where users can suggest specific content from the Knotebooks community;
  • Audio and application knotes, enabling users to add high quality sound files and interactive elements to their knotebooks;
  • and a flagging system for miscategorized or objectionable material.

Stay tuned for these additions and more...


Knotebooks 1.0

We hope the inherent scalability of Knotebooks to any area of study is apparent. But in addition to expanding the subject matter beyond physics and math, we have some other very big ideas for the next iteration of the site:

  • Premium accounts for academic institutions, which include privacy and ad controls, content branding and student analytics;
  • Class pages organized by instructors, group memberships for closer user collaboration and user-moderated discussion forums;
  • Full integration with other social media tools such as Facebook, Twitter and more;
  • and Internationalization of both the platform and material, to make the community truly global.

If you have suggestions for features you think might be useful, feel free to contact us with your feedback!