Software Request: Open Source Personal Content Repository

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Sep 12, 2018 at 07:15 PM

Glen Coulthard wrote:
>It seems that your use-case is becoming more and more popular these
>days. As a professor, I’m in a similar situation of content production
>and curation (and textbook authoring).

I agree about the ‘popularity’ of this situation. I would note three main requirements:

- Easy collection of material, either one’s own or from other sources, wherever one may be: via browser, email, clipboard, file system, open document, even on the field with a smartphone.
- Full search of that material, including files, plus ability to organise it via tags or folders etc.
- Ability to clip, edit, clone, recycle, and otherwise process the material, and publish it in a variety of media.

I very much appreciate Open Source Software, and in terms of longevity, nothing beats plain text—see Project Gutenberg as an example. Thereon however, I have yet to find an OSS which excels at the third bullet, and this is crucial in my case. My team chose Atlassian Confluence for a major knowledge management project and the result has vindicated us. This is not to say that it is without its flaws.

The article below, which I believe has been cited again in this forum, describes such a content management application with Confluence as its central tool:
https://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2015/02/technology-behind-language-of-content-strategy/