# Knots Knots is a creative visualization that represents terms in a single document as a series of twisted lines. Each occurrence of a term is represented by a bend in the line, so the more twisted a line, the more a term repeats and straight stretches represent no occurrences. By default Knots represents the most common terms in the first document of a corpus.
Knots with the Works of Jane Austen. You can also use Knots with your own corpus.
## Adding Terms Terms can be added though the [Search](#!/guide/search) box (type a term and hit enter). If a term doesn't appear in the document. ## Removing & Hiding Terms You can click on the terms at the top (the legend) to select terms to hide or remove. ## Selecting a Document Currently Knots can only represent terms in a single document. You can select a document from the _Documents_ button in the bottom toolbar. ## Options There are three sliders that help fine-tune the visualization. The sliders remain visible so that you can play with the settings (click elsewhere to dismiss the options). * **speed**: how fast the knots are composed, from a half-second delay per step (lowest value) to no delay per step (highest value) * **start angle**: each line will originate from this angle (0° is to the right, 90° toward the bottom, etc. up to 360°) * **turn angle**: the angle to turn for each occurrence encountered, from 0° to 90° You can also select the [stopwords](#!/guide/stopwords) (words to ignore) from the top options menu. ## See Also - [Getting Started](#!/guide/start) - [Stopwords](#!/guide/stopwords) - [Default Skin](#!/guide/skins-section-default-skin) - [List of Tools](#!/guide/tools)