Enhancing creativity through reorganising mental space concealed in a research notes stack

In this article, we propose a method and its implementation to aid the proc ess of creative thinking. The objective of this research is to enhance huma n scientific creativity with computers. In order to aid the process of crea tive thinking, we have implemented a system named En Passant 2, which store s the user's research notes and gives the triggers to recall his/her memori es in current context. En Passant 2 has a function to deal with indices and a time attribute of the user's thought explicitly, and shows the user's no tepads related to his/her awareness of the issues. (C) 1998 Elsevier Scienc e B.V. All rights reserved.