Document Center Overview
Pop’s Document Center is a unified workspace for information management and content creation, integrating document reading, knowledge organization, online notes, drawing, mind mapping, and more.
Whether you're studying, researching, creating, or organizing knowledge, the Document Center supports the complete workflow from input to output.
📌 What Can the Document Center Do?
The Document Center is designed around the full “Read → Organize → Create → Output” knowledge workflow, providing the following capabilities:
- 📄 Reading: Open PDF, Word, PPT, Excel, and other formats
- 📝 Writing: Markdown / Rich Text notes
- 🎨 Drawing: Use Canvas to create sketches and diagrams
- 🧠 Mind Mapping: Structure ideas using ReactFlow-based mind maps
- 📂 Management: Folders, favorites, search, tags
- 🤖 AI Collaboration: Summaries, explanations, note continuation, structure generation
All content is displayed within a unified interface, avoiding frequent switching between different tools.
🧭 Interface Structure of the Document Center
The Document Center typically consists of three main areas:
1) Left Panel: Content Navigation Area
- Folder tree
- Lists of documents, drawings, and mind maps
- Favorites
- Search bar
- New Document / New Drawing / New Mind Map
2) Center Panel: Main Content Area
Displays different editors depending on the content type:
| Content Type | Editor Type | Supported Features |
|---|---|---|
| PDF Reader | Highlights, annotations, snippet quotes, outline, OCR (future) | |
| Word / PPT / Excel | Document Reader | Parsing, summaries, text extraction |
| Markdown | Markdown Editor | Live preview, code blocks, tables, LaTeX |
| Rich Text | WYSIWYG Editor | Visual formatting, attachments |
| Drawing (Canvas) | Canvas | Shapes, connectors, layers, export |
| Mind Map | ReactFlow Map | Nodes, relations, layout, AI auto-generation |
3) Right Panel: Properties & Tool Sidebar
- File properties
- AI tools
- Summaries & explanations
- Snippet list
- Citation history
🔗 Pop’s Content Flow Logic
Pop enables smooth transitions between different types of content:
PDF → Summary → Notes → Mind Map → Workflow → Document Output
Examples:
- Select a paragraph in a PDF → AI summarizes → Insert into notes
- Generate a mind map from a document with AI → Convert into a drawing for presentation
- Insert precise PDF snippets into notes
- Click a mind map node to jump back to the original document segment
Pop’s goal is to allow knowledge to flow seamlessly across various content formats.
🧩 Modules Inside the Document Center
The Document Center is composed of the following submodules:
| Module | Description |
|---|---|
| Document Reader | View PDF / Office files, supports highlights & notes |
| Markdown Editor | Ideal for study notes, technical docs, summaries |
| Rich Text Editor | Word-like writing for general documents |
| Canvas Drawing Tool | Draw diagrams, sketches, flowcharts |
| Mind Map Tool | Structure knowledge with node diagrams |
| File Management System | Folders, search, categories, favorites |
| AI Assistant | Ask questions, summarize, continue writing, generate structure |
✨ Why Use Pop’s Document Center?
- One tool replaces multiple apps
- Reading, notes, drawing, and mind maps are natively interconnected
- AI multimodal capabilities greatly enhance knowledge processing efficiency
- All files are searchable, referenceable, and chunked
- Unified data structure reduces repeated work
The Document Center is the knowledge foundation of Pop.
Understanding it means understanding Pop’s most essential and powerful capabilities.