Hi Ted,
The plugin works by finding all the keywords out of your sentence and then searches through all the tables that have been created by previous sentences with each keyword. If it finds a match it stores the information in that table and ignores any keywords that might follow. If a HAL can't find a matching table it creates one with the first keyword that was found.
The way to use version 1.1 is when making HAL remember a new topic is to make the topic the first keyword: example:
Do you know a tiger is a cat ..... TIGER being the topic and making sure you haven't used CAT as a topic before or the information will be stored in the CAT table.
Then you can ask things like:
Did you know a collective for tigers is an ambush .... and the plugin will search through the sentence and when it finds TIGERS it will place the information in the TIGER table along with the previous.
The first version works by finding the first keyword only so you can't use sentences where the topic isn't the first keyword: example
Did you know a collective for tigers is an ambush .... the information would be put into a table called COLLECTIVE but would be better placed into the TIGER table with other tiger information.
Version 1.1 is a little trickier to use but allows information to be inputted in a variety of ways.
I hope this makes sense and is helpful.
Thanks,
Roy.