To get started, there is a new "Wikipedia" menu option under the Cloud icon. This brings up a text field where you can type in pretty much anything from apple to zebra. Linelo will then find the document in Wikipedia, convert it into Linelo format and display it as a normal Linelo document. As we've mentioned before, Linelo is the ideal format for showing and storing big documents on your phone because of the way it collapses all the sections within sections within sections.
Once you've got the document on your phone, you can do whatever you like with it. You can add or remove content, adjust the formatting, copy bits of it into other documents, whatever you like - you are working with your own personal copy of the document, stored only on your phone or tablet.
The best part though is the navigation. All the links are translated into Linelo as well, so you can navigate from "Einstein" to "Violin Sonata" to "Relativity" to "Physics" to ... whatever, in a matter of seconds, with all of it ready to be included in whatever activity you happen to be working on.
We've been finding it hard not to waste time just navigating around -- almost like back in those early days when the web was just getting started on desktop computers.
When we started the Wikipedia conversion we were just hoping to get a little content into Linelo so new users would have a few interesting lines to work with. Instead, we stumbled on a way to turn phones and tablets into the most powerful information tool we could have imagined, 4.3 million documents you can carry around in your pocket.
Yowsers.
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