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General brainstorming for Note-taking software
nevf:
I have just written a blog post “Your Information in 'The Cloud' - Safe, Secure, Available or Not?” which I thought may interest some here.
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rjbull:
I have just written a blog post “Your Information in 'The Cloud' - Safe, Secure, Available or Not?” which I thought may interest some here.-nevf (December 19, 2010, 04:56 PM)
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Makes sense; avoids the worst of the problems. I don't think I'd knowingly commit to any Web-only service for the sort of reasons you mention, plus the possibility of the cloud company hiking their prices and taking your data hostage.
rjbull:
Just for the compleatist, I just stumbled over these two when looking for something else. I haven't tried them. They're both freeware.
Techno Notes Manager
Save and organize any texts with rich formatting.
Free-form personal notes organizer with tree-like structure. Sometimes this kind of software called outliners. Main purpose is to store many notes with hierarchical structure in single file.
* Main features: Modern easy-to-use interface
* Full rich text support including images, tables, bullets, etc.
* Powerful encryption
* Full-text search engine
* Organization with hierarchy and by keywords (tags)
* Export to HTML or RTF
* Spell checker
* File attachment to any nodes
* Portable mode support
* Multilanguage interface
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Smereka: extensible personal freeform database and personal information manager
Smereka is a freeware program that allows you to organize your data in an hierarchical, searchable database stored in a single file.
Your files and notes can be stored in a single file - Smereka database. This file is being indexed on the fly, so you can search your information items as soon as they are added to the database. All information items - files, notes and even folders - can be tagged to create "alternative hierarchy".
The search capabilities of "Smereka" are extended by a hierarchical system of item storage (in a tree). This allows you to sort your items into a tree-like structure. You can move, copy items from branch to branch, assign icons to them and more.
Your information (text, offline webpages) appear on the screen instantly, as soon as you click a tree item - you do not need to run an external program in most cases.
And of course, you can share the database. Having received a single file, your peer may instantly browse all the array of your data, search it or export information items to disk.
Here are typlical cases of freeform database usage:
* organizing snippets of text information: you are accumulating small, independent text files and saved webpages. They are used to store ideas, notes, article archive, etc.
* data mining: you are researching some topic. You need to save and analyze a lot of diverse information, which is located on different webpages, in different text files. You also want to save relevant discussions, IM chats etc.
* project management: you are leading a project, which requires organizing and storing a great quantity of artifacts: documents, important e-mails, chat transcripts, ideas, brainstorm protocols etc. In addition to specialized tools, such as MS projects, CMS or bug trackers, a personal database helps a manager to put pieces of informationtogether, which otherwise would not "fit" into these large and formal tools. Flexible reminders can be attached to any item and keep you track your project.
* structured information exchange: you need to send your colleague a set of file together with some relevant instructions. You can attach files to the database as info elements, and insert text items as child (or parent) nodes.
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rgdot:
May be this general thread is a good place to post this
At least at first glance this seems to be a good read on the topic :)
rjbull:
Action Outline is on offer at Bits du Jour today, 2011-11-21, but I can't get their page to load at time of posting.
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