Business Canvas Inc. is a promising start-up that provides writers and knowledge workers the disruptive innovation of documentation, through an easy-to-use digital workspace— Typed. Taking the role of one’s second brain, it is a simple-to-use and quick-to-learn document-centric knowledge management system.
Typed has a vision of becoming proactive software that makes writing documents easier by predicting and recommending all the information that users want to refer to. Therefore, the name Typed represents the evolution of creating a document.
Typed is a document-driven knowledge management system that redefines the document workflow. The cloud-based platform provides users a seamless research and writing experience through its network of individual documents and resources stored in the cloud.
Disruptive feature of split view interface of Typed
Typed provides a solution that enables the user to fully focus on the synthesis of knowledge through writing a document with its split view interface. The use of resources is crucial for document workflow, but nothing is more important than the document being written.
Typed workspace with a split viewer interface is a simple, but effective approach that allows the knowledge worker to transition through numerous resources while staying fully focused on the current document’s context.
While writing a document, all resources collected within Typed can be viewed through its built-in Split Viewer interface simultaneously without having to use a separate viewer application. Currently, Typed’s Split Viewer interface supports PDF, doc, PPT, and excel formats, as well as web URLs, and will be expanded to support more formats including image files. Typed’s Split Viewer interface enables the user to make seamless transitions between various collected resources by filter, and ultimately utilize the resources to produce high-quality writing without having to leave the main workspace.
This is possible because Typed understands the difference between “current document” and “reference material” from the user’s perspective. In most note-taking tools, when a reference material, file or URL is attached and opened, a separate viewer is opened or the main page is converted to the resource page. The act of converting the page adds the inconvenience of the user being distracted and reducing the work concentration of document workflow.
Typed learns the needs and behavior of the writer to ultimately make accurate recommendations of information. Typed enables quick research and data collection by web extension, and Typed allows users to write and view documents at the same time without an additional viewer program. Typed brings together consciously chosen pieces of knowledge based on goal-directed relevance and importance, encouraging users to establish networked thought. In light of such great features, Typed can take the role of the second brain in the document workflow.
