About Spill 
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About Spill |
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Spill makes it easy to access and organize your information.
Most information managers organize your information automatically - alphabetically, by date or size, etc. However, they do not let you personalize the order of your files. You cannot, for instance, put the most important files first and the least important files last, because judgements like that cannot be automated. In DNE Desktop, you control the order of your tiles, and this is done in Spill.
In Spill you can "spill" the contents of up to five kNowledge Elements (NEs) at the same time and rearrange your tiles in any order you want, either within one NE or between several NEs, all by drag'n'drop. Like playing cards spilled across a card table, you can shuffle your information into a new order and when you pick them up they will be in that new order. When you spill an NE, the tiles are lined up graphically with space between each one and the ones around it. Simply drag any tile between any other two tiles, or to either end of the line, and it is moved to the new position.
Because you can have five lines open at once, spill is a very efficient way to organize information. Tiles can be very quickly divided into topics. Here, photographs of DC landmarks, originally in one NE...
,,, are divided between NEs for each landmark:
The photographs of the Washington Monument, the Lincoln Memorial and the White House are now organized and easy to find. Note that all the relevant NEs can be viewed at the same time, without any difficulty.
Similarly, tiles on a single line can be gathered into an order that makes sense to you:
becomes:
when the Lincoln Memorial photographs are organized statue first, building second, with the longer distance pictures last. And the spill does not just reorganize pictures, but any piece of information - files on your computer or company intranet, subdocuments within files, web pages or Outlook emails - that your computer can access.
As with the cabinet, spill can be configured and these configurations can be saved. A saved spill configuration is up to five spill lines that you like to have accessible at the same time. Spill configurations can be useful for organizing, accessing and presenting information from several places at once. You can save any number of spill configurations. Just drag any combination of up to five NEs onto any combination of up to five spill lines, save that combination as a spill configuration, and you will have one-click access to all five NEs, including all your graphic thumbnails, saving you the effort of clicking up and down your tree every time you want a file.
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