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samopal
July 31st, 2007, 02:38 AM
hi there,
do you know http://www.remlapsoftware.com/ -> KnowledgeBASE ?
it is great tool, however only for windows and under wine it doesn't work well... I only need functionality of personal information management which supports keywords. I was using flat spreedsheets, then mindmaps (FreeMind actualy), but neither fill my needs in processing big ammount of textual information/passwords/adresses and so. I think keywords are the key :), does anybody knows about application in linux that can handle this? I was googling like a devil, but i'm lost...

edit> i'm searching for something similar like new KDE 4 feature of organizing files by keywords :>
that one looks great, but I don't need to organize files, only pure text notes..

DoctorMO
July 31st, 2007, 03:20 AM
I think your after an indexer, not a database. My guess is an indexer application but you've not properly described what the problem is your trying to address and I have no time to read all the blurb for the software your trying to replace to understand exactly what it does.

I've programmed with a number of indexers for perl, but I'm not aware of any applications that do it thus far.

samopal
July 31st, 2007, 03:47 AM
hmm, agree with DoctorMO, I wasn't clear in what exactly I'm searching for. So>
I'm searching for a program, that can take 400 text notes and allows me to assign them "keywords" or "tags" like personal, school, work, banking, password etc.
So when I run the program and tell him "I want notes with tags 'personal' and 'password' and 'banking'", it will filter and show those notes for me.
Same functionality has new KDE 4 (Nepomuk), but in this case, you can tag only files, not text notes. - making file for every text note will be bit unconfortable...

It's because nowdays I have bunch of texts stored in mind maps and through time I discovered that it isn't the best way to organize my personal data.

edit>> short video about what Nepomuk is about http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2bf36_nepomukdolphin - the feature of KDE 4 I was talking about, hmm, well, it's not maybe feature of KDE 4 itself...

scooper
July 31st, 2007, 06:08 AM
TiddlyWiki, and possibly Wiki on a Stick, gives you something like what you want. You can freely assign keywords (TW calls them "tags") to wiki-text entries and retrieve them using search, categorized menus or by keyword lists. It actually works rather well. You not only get plain text indexed by keyword, but can also create fancy stuff like lists, headings, tables, links and other simple markup. You edit and save to a single file from the browser. There's a huge supply of plugins and enhanced versions available on the web. Your file can go on a USB stick.

The downside is that the file and the Javascript code can eventually get larger and slower. I haven't hit the point where it's unpleasant myself. But others have mentioned it.

It's fully Open Source, because the one file has both source code and data. It's pretty easy to migrate data between files and versions. I'd definitely give it a look.

http://www.tiddlywiki.com/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/stickwiki

Hope that helps.
Steve

samopal
August 1st, 2007, 03:16 AM
TiddlyWiki, and possibly Wiki on a Stick, gives you something like what you want. You can freely assign keywords (TW calls them "tags") to wiki-text entries and retrieve them using search, categorized menus or by keyword lists. It actually works rather well. You not only get plain text indexed by keyword, but can also create fancy stuff like lists, headings, tables, links and other simple markup. You edit and save to a single file from the browser. There's a huge supply of plugins and enhanced versions available on the web. Your file can go on a USB stick.

The downside is that the file and the Javascript code can eventually get larger and slower. I haven't hit the point where it's unpleasant myself. But others have mentioned it.

It's fully Open Source, because the one file has both source code and data. It's pretty easy to migrate data between files and versions. I'd definitely give it a look.

http://www.tiddlywiki.com/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/stickwiki

Hope that helps.
Steve

Jesus, that's exactly it!! Sure you helped me a lot, I think I owe you a beer or 5 :KS:KS
It's great, specificly tiddlywikki, i'm new fan of it.