Is it just me?

Thanks Pierre. I then see how this can be useful. It is reminiscent of what ChemFinder used to do 10 years or so ago - you could (sub)structure search across the entire contents of a disk. You could point Chemfinder at a disk or network folder and it would index it in the background.

I'll play with it a bit but that is the most obvious use I see -'I've drawn this structure somewhere but I can't remember where.'

Thank you Mike, it is a new type of application to help you manage and report on your CHemistry content.

It lets you view and repurpose the ChemDraw content (also .mol, .sdf content) that is embedded inside a document (Word, PPT, Excel) without having to open the document. If you want to repurpose drawings that you know are in certain Word documnets you can simply select them and copy them to the clipboard without opening the document and scrolling down endlessly or without opening MULTIPLE MS Office documents.

if you upload the actual document to Signals, its content becomes structure searchable, so you can search by substructure: in which document have I pasted a drawing that contains this substructure?

Lastly, you can select individual molecules and put them into collections, which are lists of chemical objects (molecules or reactions) and associate and manage their properties. From there you can add calculated properties, you can edit the molecules, and you can export them to either an SD File or to a powerpoint slide (quick report generation). You can add molecules from one collection into another.

It works hand in hand with Signals Notebook to give you the possibility to create chemistry experiment reports from Signals Notebook into Powerpoint slides in a few clicks.

with the current update you can create a collection from a list of SMILES or InChI strings as a .txt file.

In a nutshell this is what you can do with it. We'll be adding more and more features to it every quarter.

Hope that helps