Universal/Internal URLs

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Jul 15, 2006 at 05:37 PM

The discussion re WhizFolders’ URL feature got me thinking; this could be _the_ solution to the question of holding/accessing information across different programs. Which brings me to the next question; what other information management programs do you know that offer this kind of functionality?

Outside wikis, it seems to be a much desired (by users) but under-implemented feature. For me it’s not really a mystery why it’s so hard to get; most information managers file formats are little more than text/RTF/XML documents, that maintain data in a serial form; insert a new item and the previous order gets lost, so there’s no way of pointing to a specific item.

Wikis are database-driven as is a minority of the information managemers discussed here; the ones I know of are IDEA! and UltraRecall. Interestingly, I am aware of at least two clipboard managers that also employ such technology. Outlook is another example and this is the reason that one can create permanent links to its items.

UltraRecall users have been asking for it for ages but it’s still not in the roadmap; nevertheless, I expect it to be eventually implemented since the infrastructure is there.

alx