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Design Summary of the ) NoteTaker-2 Personal Information System --- collected by Alan Kay, as of April 19, 1976 The NoteTaker is a research prototype of a personal information system which may be used anywhere by children and adults to collect, organize, simulate, and view comprehensive models defined by themselves and others with whom they work and play. Though it will be self-contained and portable, it will also serve as a portal to a shared Information Library through which a NoteTaker owner will communicate with other people, with an associative information system, and with facilities for media conversion. .. The central research qll:estion is! How can a real tool for comprehensive information manipulation be built so that it is far more useful than _ _ ______ ... ...l___ _ __ 1 .. _4 __ 1_ ... 1_L__ __~