Re: note taking and outlining software for academics (not fu

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Posted by zeoli
2005-06-16 07:52:08

> “Keywords” for ndxcards are the specific terms you associated with the card, by entering them in the Keywords field. “Keywords” for UR, on the other hand, basically means every word in the note, excepting articles and the like PLUS any other key words you choose to add. So a keyword search in UR is a full text search, something ndx Cards doesn’t YET have—it is planned

If I’ve interpreted Kinook’s claims correctly, the UR search of keywords is closer to an indexed search than a full-text search. For instance, Zoot has a full-text search, which means that when you run a search it looks in each document for the required text string. Whereas, with an indexed search, the program logs the words and locations as you enter text, this makes for a much faster search (although, since Zoot is plain text, it is pretty fast). AskSam Professional is an indexed search. Most of the tree-based, free form databases we talk about use text searches, which are generally slower. At least, this is my understanding.

Steve Z.

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