Indexing content of PDFs, cloning, internal links, etc. in MyBase/WebCollect

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Feb 21, 2008 at 11:53 AM

I have been a registered user of MyBase 4 but didn’t upgrade to 5 as my needs became rather more specialised. Nevertheless, I’ve been positively impressed by the product’s consistent development.

Perhaps the single most important feature setting MyBase apart from most other similar outliners is the existence of a multi-user client-server network version. This used to be a version of MyBase itself, but has now been turned into a separate program, InnoKB, to which MyBase files can be converted:
http://www.wjjsoft.com/innokb.html

As far as I know, the only other contenders mentioned in this forum and offering a multi-user version are IDEA! and Treepad. However, MyBase / InnoKB has gone one step further: to access a database in the company server running the software, one only requires a Javascript capable bowser. I recall Sycon discussing that a web-capable version of IDEA! was under development more than a year ago, but I have never seen it surface.

Other programs discussed here, such as UltraRecall, can have multiple users access a common file over the network but this is often slow and inefficient as the software is in fact desktop, i.e. single-user oriented.

I am currently on the lookout for such a product to use in my own company. With a 5- user base I cannot justify investing on an expensive enterprise-oriented solution. The majority of cost-effective / open-source solutions are simply too complex to set up and maintain for my comprehension and time. And, most simple turn-key all-in-one solutions are actually quite expensive.

I will be testing InnoKB for my needs and posting my findings here. I would welcome suggestions for alternative software anyone here might have experience with.

TIA
alx