by ileonardo and 1 contributor (kirk), 12 pages, 0 comment. Modified on .

Welcome!

Since the time of Leonardo da Vinci, every generation has compared and redefined their genius to that of Leonardo's -- the genius in the age of genius. During the Renaissance in the 15th century Florence, the Medici Family traveled Europe and North Africa to buy books hidden in monasteries and castles in the Dark Ages. They created the first free library since the Romans torched the library of Alexandria. Artists and intellectuals throughout Europe flocked to Florence to consume this information -- and of course, the Chianti.

Leonardo studied these books and filled his Notebooks with knowledge. At the end of his life, Leonardo's Notebooks were considered the most valuable bodies of knowledge in the world.

Today, iLeonardo.com allows everyone to collect and search the world's information online and turn it into knowledge by creating their own notebooks. When these notebooks are made public, their knowledge will be accessible by friends and others. iLeonardo.com allows anyone to become the genius of the digital age.

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1. First notebook
2. What's in a notebook?
3. Similar notebooks
4. Creating pages in notebook manually
5. Easily saving web pages into a notebook
6. Searching for information in one place
7. Saving search results into notebook
8. Keeping up with knowlegeable people
9. Collaborating with other people
10. Posting your notebook anywhere on the Web
11. FAQ
12. We want to hear from you!
13. Comments

1. First notebook

   When you first sign up, your library is empty. The easiest way to start a library is to save a notebook made by others.
   
   You can do so by clicking on the "save" button located on the blue banner where this notebook's title also appears. Afterwards this notebook you are reading will be in your library.

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2. What's in a notebook?

   A notebook consists of a number of pages.
   
   You can provide a notebook summary. By including an image URL in notebook summary, you give the notebook a cover image.
   
   You can view each page in full by clicking on "more". Clicking on "expand all" to the right of the notebook title will expand all pages.
   
   You can modify the title, description, and URL of a page.
   
   You can add multiple images by entering the image URLs into the page description.
   
   You can rearrange the pages within a notebook by dragging the page body and dropping it wherever you want it to be.
   
   Under the "tools" drop-down menu, you'll find a few other actions you can perform on a page.
   
   

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3. Similar notebooks

   When you are viewing a notebook, iLeonardo automatically offers recommendations based on the current notebook you are looking at. They appear as "Similar Notebooks" beneath the mini-library and to the right of the current notebook.
   
   Similar notebooks may be from other users on the same subjects. They are start points for you to explore different aspects of a subject as well as different users' libraries.
   

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4. Creating pages in notebook manually

   You can manually fill in title, summary, and URL in a page and add it to a notebook.
   
   For example, open the notebook, (1) click on "+ new page" button, and (2) enter information in the popup.
   
   

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5. Easily saving web pages into a notebook

   The easiest way to save web pages that are interesting or important to you is to use the bookmarklet.
   
   Bookmarklet is a button on your browser's toolbar or an entry in your browser's Favorites menu.
   
   Here is an example of how it is used when the bookmarklet is installed:
   
   
   
   (1) go to nps.gov, highlight some interesting text as the page summary, (2) click on the "Save to iLeonardo" bookmarklet button, and (3) the title, summary, and URL of the Yosemite Web page appear in the popup. Click on "next >" button to choose a notebook to save it into.
   
   Bookmarklet takes less than a minute to install. Follow this page's title link to do this.

   http://www.ileonardo.com/splash/addons.php?ileo

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6. Searching for information in one place

   You can search for information from "universes" of various specificity: (1) searching your or another's library, (2) searching notebooks within your Brains, (3) searching all notebooks, or (4) searching the web, all conveniently inside iLeonardo.
   
   Select a scope using the pull down menu, and enter your query in the box next to the iLeonardo logo. You will get a list of notebooks/pages matching your query.
   
   In the web results, if any web page in the search results has already been saved in someone's notebooks, the most popular notebook is attached to the search result.

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7. Saving search results into notebook

   Search the Web or existing notebooks, and add search results into your notebook.
   
   For example, (1) search for "Yosemite", (2) click on the "save" button, and (3) in the popup select a notebook to save the result into (or create a new notebook).
   
   

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8. Keeping up with knowlegeable people

   If you like another person's notebook and save it in your library, you can follow their other actions in your feed. Or you click on the "follow" button when you visit another person's profile. Every time you come to iLeonardo, you are automatically notified of the latest work by that person.
   
   For example:
   
   (1) Visit josh's profile by clicking on his username. If his notebooks seem particular interesting, click on the "follow" button beneath his bio.
   
   
   (2) Josh becomes part of your Brains. You can see him under "My Brains" by going back to your own profile.
   
   
   (3) When josh modified his notebooks or added new pages, you get notifications in your Feed.
   

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9. Collaborating with other people

   You can invite other people to jointly contribute to a notebook. Do so by opening the notebook, and click on the "Collaborate" button on the notebook's blue title banner.
   
   When the invitees have accepted your invite, you all can edit the notebook.
   
   You can create a private notebook and invite a private group of people to work on it without revealing any of your activities to the community at large.
   

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10. Posting your notebook anywhere on the Web

    Each notebook in iLeonardo has a permalink that you can use to post to blogs or other web pages.
    
    You can find it by opening the notebook and scrolling to after the last page. Click on the box containing the URL, copy and then paste to wherever you want that link to be.
    
    As an example, the following link is the permalink for this notebook you are viewing: http://www.ileonardo.com/notebook/1_/Guide+to+iLeonardo

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11. FAQ

    We have a FAQ that may have answers to your questions.
    
    Follow this page's title link to read it.

    http://www.ileonardo.com/splash/faq.php?ileo

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12. We want to hear from you!

    Please let us know if you run into bugs, have comments, or need a feature. Follow this page's title link to the feedback.

    http://www.ileonardo.com/splash/feedback.php?ileo

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