Bottom Dock 🛠

Description: The Bottom Dock Widget is your ultimate companion, offering an extensive set of tools to enhance your experience on the ThoughtJumper platform. The Bottom Dock Widget is a powerful and versatile tool that serves as a sticky footer, offering a wide range of readily available tools. This dock provides a seamless and efficient user experience, putting essential tools right at your fingertips. One of the standout features of the Bottom Dock Widget is its speech recognition capability, allowing you to explore any topic or concept using voice commands. By simply toggling the speech recognition tool, you can engage in hands-free exploration, enabling a more intuitive and convenient browsing experience. The dock also includes tools for saving quests and thought maps, enabling you to capture and revisit your journey through the platform. Replaying all your thoughts is made effortless with one of the widget's tools. By activating this feature, you can review and reflect on your past ideas and insights, aiding in consolidation and deeper understanding. For enhanced customization, the Bottom Dock Widget offers tools that allow you to edit the layout according to your preferences. By dragging and dropping different panels, you can personalize the arrangement of elements, optimizing your workspace for maximum productivity. Need more space for additional content? No problem. The widget provides a tool that enables you to add another column of panels, giving you more flexibility in organizing and managing your information. By default, the Bottom Dock Widget activates the quest mode, however, you can easily turn off the quest mode using one of the available tools. Similarly, the thought map feature is enabled by default, allowing you to visualize the connections and relationships between different thoughts. If you prefer a more streamlined view, you can toggle off the thought map using one of the widget's tools. In addition, the Bottom Dock Widget offers screen recording functionality, allowing you to capture and share your on-screen activities. Furthermore, you can enable the camera feature to record your face while simultaneously recording the screen, enhancing the visual impact and personalization of your recordings.

Usage Instructions 📚

| Toggle Speech Recognition

One of the standout features of the Bottom Dock Widget is its speech recognition capability, allowing you to explore any topic or concept using voice commands. By simply toggling the speech recognition tool, you can engage in hands-free exploration, enabling a more intuitive and convenient browsing experience.

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  | Quest Save As

| Quest Save to Current

If a Quest is open and you performed other explorations that you would like to part of the opened quest, simply click on this icon.

| Quest Load from Current (overwrite)

If a Quest was open and you performed other explorations that you do not want to part of the opened quest, simply click on this icon.

| Replay all thoughts

If you want to replay all the active explorations, simply click on this icon. Please note that if Quest Mode Navigation is off, then widgets will not change and the information related to the active thought will be displayed in the already open widgets. By activating this feature, you can review and reflect on your past ideas and insights, aiding in consolidation and deeper understanding.

| Save Current Thought to Quest

If you want to save all the active explorations as a new quest, simply click on this icon. Saving quests and thought maps enables you to capture and revisit your journey through the platform.

| Automatic / Manual Thought Map

By default, ThoughtJumper generates the ThoughtMap of all your explorations. If you want to omit some of your explorations, simply turn it off.

| Edit Layout

To move and re-position your panels, simply click on this icon and the dashboard will become editable. By dragging and dropping different panels, you can personalise the arrangement of widgets, optimising your workspace for maximum productivity.

| Resize Layout

If you want to re-size the panels, simply click on this icon and the height & width of all the panels can be adjusted as per your preferences.

| Add new Panel

Need more space for additional content? No problem. Simply click on this icon and it will enable you to add another column of panels, giving you more flexibility in organising and managing your information.

| Quest Mode Navigation

By default, Quest Mode Navigation is disabled. To turn it on, simply click on this icon. If Quest Mode Navigation is off and you use Replay all thoughts tool or ThoughtMap Navigator, then widgets do not change with the active thought and the information is displayed in the already open widgets. In case Quest Mode Navigation is on and you use Replay all thoughts tool or ThoughtMap Navigator, then widgets change with the selected thought and the information is displayed in widgets that were open while exploring the selected thought initially.

| Quest Mode

By default, Quest Mode is disabled. To turn it on, simply click on this icon. In the default state, Ongoing Quest Widget can be considered a graphical representation of Snippet Widget. If the Quest Mode is turned on, ThoughtJumper generates the content, of your prompted topic or concept, in the form of a e-learning course that has topics and sub-topics. This update also reflects in the Detail widget, which not only shows textual information of the selected nodes now but also lists the related articles, related videos, and some questions that could be used to assess your understanding of the selected node.

This tool also gets enabled if you simply visit the Ongoing Quest Widget.

| Camera

Clicking on this icon will enable your device's camera and show the footage in a floating window that can be placed anywhere in your browser window by dragging.

| Screen Recording

Clicking on this icon will start the screen recording, allowing you to capture and share your on-screen activities. All the screen recordings are saved as a note in the Notes Library.

Tips 💡

Familiarise yourself with the tools: Take the time to explore and understand the various tools available in the Bottom Dock Widget. Understanding each tool's purpose and functionality will help you utilise them effectively.

Replay thoughts for reflection: Activate the tool that replays all your thoughts. This feature enables you to review and reflect on your past ideas, fostering a deeper understanding and encouraging new connections and insights.

Enable camera for face recording: When recording your screen, consider using the tool that enables the camera feature. Recording your face adds a personal touch and enhances the visual impact of your screen recordings.

Use the quest and thought map toggles strategically: The quest mode and thought map features can be toggled on or off using the tools in the Bottom Dock Widget. Evaluate your current needs and the stage of your exploration to decide when to enable or disable these features for a more focused or open-ended experience.

Utilise speech recognition: Take advantage of the speech recognition tool to enable/disable some of the available tools like: Camera, Screen Recording, Edit Layout, Resize Layout, etc. Here is the list of all voice commands you can use.

Widgets that work well with this widget 🤝

The tools in the Bottom Deck widget, all combined, works in tandem with almost all of the widgets.