#Essence
##The Basics
Essence is an intuitive web application that provides a solution for learning a new topic through several, unrelated resources.
By using Essence, users will be able to:
- open .pdf files
- view all .pdf files they have opened using Essence
- extract pertinent/interesting snippets from documents
- assign snippets to topics
- view all snippets within a given topic
- reassign unassigned snippets to a topic on the fly
Add Snippet button can be found in _toolbar in views/layouts/pdf_viewer