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Ideation Notebook

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1. Context	Note-taking is crucial when one comes across complex knowledge and emerging ideas. The SOTA notebooks empirically increase functions to satisfy the needs of knowledge developing, but still lack of a comprehensive framework The human-computer interaction in Integration Development Environment (IDE) has greatly empowered software development but the mode has not been utilized in knowledge development environment (notebook).
2. Goal	Enable users describe data and execute knowledge management functions efficiently. Enhance the cognition of users by interaction based on the semantics of data. The parameters of interaction can be configured efficiently to satisfy a wide range of knowledge development scene.
3. Success Criteria	The users can express richer content, and develop more knowledge in less time. The users gain insights, learn, and innovate during the interaction with Ideation Notebook.
4. Outputs	5. Process	6. Inputs
A note-taking environment Documents providing guidelines for different types of users.	Standing in multiple streams of information, individuals observe, note, and organize information with Ideation Language in Ideation Notebook.	Configuration of the notebook's interaction. Knowledge development context. Streams of both mental and physical information.
7. Boundary Conditions	Users have enough proficiency to use natural language and formal language. Users have motivation to develop knowledge, rather than simply writing down information.

Note-taking is crucial when one comes across complex knowledge and emerging ideas. Facing multiple streams of data, a note-taker takes a perspective, observe and focus at the data, and come out with writable information. The information are written down along with the mindstream of the note-taker, and are then organized by note-taker with the aid of the notebook environment.

The digital notebook environment allows faster note-taking speed but limited expressibility of concept relations. A natural way of note-taking is to draw down concepts and relate them, which is flexable for quick organization and comprehension of fractions of knowledge. However, the process is inferior to typing when concepts are easily expressed by language. The dilemma give rise to mindmap tools, which enable note-takers to express concepts and the relations among them. Nonetheless, this kind of tools lacks expressibility for more general structure of knowledge, and even inhibits the thinking process.

The process of note-taking shares similar factors with coding. Coders need to transform ideas into codes and relate and organize concepts, while the IDEs really understand the semantics and provide corresponding interactions, increasing the efficiency of the development process. It expose the lack of semantic assistance of the note-taking environment.

This issue motivates us to propose a framework of a note-taking environment, Ideaiton Notebook, which enable users describe data and execute knowledge management functions efficiently. The notebook enhances the cognition of users by providing interactions, which can be further configured efficiently to satisfy a wide range of knowledge development scene.

The value of the notebook to a user depends on user context, which offers motivation of knowledge development. It also depends on the user's understanding and proficiency to utilize the hybrid of natural language and formal language. Finally, the user's surrounding of data streams needs to be rich and fluid, which leads to another proposal of Ideation Channels.