Welcome to Protolyst! Your knowledge management workspace
Protolyst is an all in one solution for you to bring all of your knowledge, docs and resources for any project together. You can build it however you like and use it as an individual or invite team members to join you.
Watch our 60s get started video. There’s also some further written quick start guides in these Docs pages to help get you up and running but do let us know if there’s anything we can help you with!
Quick Start Writing on Protolyst in 5 Steps #
On Protolyst you collect Atoms which you can use as “building blocks” in your projects. This knowledge-first or bottom up approach means that you organise the individual ideas and interesting points you come across in your sources not just the files that contain them.
This 5 step guide shows how you can Capture Atoms from different sources, organise them in your workspace and use them to create written pieces.
1 Add your Sources into Protolyst
Upload files from your computer, import web pages by URL or copy paste notes into a New Page in your Workspace.
2 Capture Atoms
By highlighting text, you can capture Atoms from sources added into your workspace. Atoms extract a highlight and lift it out of the source page so that you can use and apply it anywhere in your workspace for your projects.
3 Add Tags to your Atoms
You can add Tags to your Atoms to connect them to other Pages in your workspace, and start collecting them around different Topics. Tags allow you to collect or group together Atoms from different sources.
4 View your Atoms
Quickly access your knowledge on a particular topic with lists of your Atoms. Atoms will display in the list for all the Pages they have been Tagged to.
5 Use your Atoms
You can add Atoms into Text Editor pages to start assembling your Atoms together into written pieces.
Quick Start Analysis on Protolyst in 5 Steps #
You can also make use of Tables on Protolyst to organise your Atoms into information matrices to get an overview of your data to identify patterns and trends.
1 Add your Sources into Protolyst
Add all your Sources into a Table – Upload files from your computer, import web pages by URL or copy paste notes.
2 Capture Atoms
By highlighting text, you can capture Atoms from sources added into your workspace. Atoms extract a highlight and lift it out of the source page so that you can use and apply it anywhere in your workspace for your projects.
3 Add Tags to your Atoms
You can add Tags to your Atoms to connect them to other Pages in your workspace, and start collecting them around different Topics. Tags allow you to collect or group together Atoms from different sources.
4 View your Atoms
Quickly access your knowledge on a particular topic with lists of your Atoms. Atoms will display in all the Pages they have been Tagged to.
5 Create a Matrix Overview of your Atoms
Tables can be set up to display Atoms with particular Tags so that you can view information on a selection of Topics from a collection of Sources in one place.
