Relations between slips and relations between keywords are
established via information scents:
- Slip scents: There exists an information
scent a from one slip to another another one if the two slips share at least
one keyword. The more keywords are shared by the slips the stronger the scent.
- Keyword scents: There exists an information
scent between two keywords if there is at least one slip on which they occur
together. The more slips the keywords co-occur on the stronger the scent.
Scents can be used for the associative searches in
the box. They guide the exploration of the box in two
ways:
- They lead from the current slip to a related one,
eg by the slip scents table in the slip view.
- They lead from one keyword to new keywords, eg by the keyword
scent view browser.
Aside: The relations shown in the alternating
scent view are not, strictly speaking, scents, because they show the
relations between slip IDs and keywords. This view is just a convenience.