integrating notes database with pertinent files

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
May 25, 2016 at 04:36 PM

jimspoon wrote:
>Very good questions. One can imagine various degrees of integration of
>“notes” and “file content”. For me, the more integrated, the better.
>So that when issues a query, the results may contain content from a
>notes database, and content from files, mixed together and organized in
>any number of different ways.

Well, a radical solution to this is for the integration to be at the note database infrastructure level, i.e. whereby the individual notes are themselves searchable files, such as plain text. This is Outwiker’s take http://jenyay.net/Outwiker/English Keepnote also took a similar approach, but it seems no longer developed. Dokuwiki also holds its info in text files, and can be configured to run locally.

In all such cases, the desktop search programme will be able to fully index the notes along with any other files, and to provide integrated search results.