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The cabinet is a tree structure that uses NEs and tiles. There are four advantages to using the cabinet over using the traditional folder/file structure:
| • | You can easily organize all your knowledge in the same structure, from files on your computer to bookmarked web pages to subdocuments within larger documents. |
| • | You can view your tree at up to twelve branches at the same time in a single window. Simply drag any combination of NEs into any combination of panels in the cabinet to have access to all these NEs, and their tiles, at the same time. |
| • | The cabinet remembers which NEs are in which panels, so you only have to configure your cabinet once and the information you need will remain at your fingertips until you do not need it any more. |
| • | You can save multiple cabinet configurations. Lay out access to different knowledge for each of your different tasks, save a configuration for each, and you can keep all of your knowledge handy and compartmentalized exactly as you want it. Simply drag any combination of up to twelve different NEs into any combination of up to twelve panels, and save that combination as a cabinet configuration, and you will have one-click access to all twelve NEs at the same time, saving you the effort of clicking up and down your tree every time you want a file. |
The cabinet is composed of four parts:
About the four areas:
| 1. | The top level cabinet tabs or buttons line one perimeter of the cabinet (in the example they are along the top, but you can select any side via the Settings menu), and are used to select which directory will be presented as the tree. You can divide the cabinet structure into as many directories or top level cabinets as you want. |
| 2. | The tree, in the leftmost column, displays all the NEs in a particular top level cabinet (the cabinet selected on the cabinet tab or button). The look and feel of the cabinet tree is like the standard navigator. |
| 3. | The panels, the twelve boxes that make up the largest part of the cabinet, each display a branch of the tree, from whichever NE was dragged into it. Any NE can be dragged into any panel from anywhere: in the tree; another panel; the bench. By dragging different NEs into different panels you have access to a wide variety of information at one time, without spending time clicking through your tree structure. Tiles can be accessed from any panel, and you can navigate down through your tree inside any panel. |
| 4. | The tile list, in the right column, will display the tiles in any NE. Just click an NE in a panel or in the tree, and all the tiles in that NE appear in the tile list. Tiles can be opened by doubleclicking them. |
 If you use both the DNE Desktop and the DNE, you will have the same cabinets and cabinet configurations in each application, and updating the cabinet in either application automatically will update the cabinet in both applications. Both the DNE and the DNE Desktop use the same database.
 DNE users note that NEs that an NE must exist in the cabinet in order to be used in the DNE Desktop. If an NE exists in the DNE but does not occupy a cabinet (if its only links are by association or affinity to other NEs), then it is not accessible in the Desktop (although it is fully functional in the DNE).
 Click here to find out how to use the cabinet.
Click here to see an animated introduction to the cabinet.
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