Amazing new discovery

Posted by MadaboutDana
Mar 19, 2011 at 02:55 PM

Actually, the TreeProjects version does have mass-export facilities - entire branches can be exported to either RTF or text or HTML files! It’s well worth experimenting with the TreeProjects version - it’s unbelievably clever, and unbelievably quick. I’m currently sitting in a cafe in Glasgow working my way through the Help file (which, sensibly enough, takes the form of a Smereka database). I’ve got a second instance open for experimentation, I’ve got two instances of The Guide (my preferred notes management software for Very Simple Stuff) open, and Chrome open with a few tabs, too. All on an Asus netbook (1101HA running WinXP, to be specific), with 2GB of RAM. And guess what, Smereka is STILL unbelievably quick (and has a tiny memory footprint - my mem tool is reporting just 35% of physical memory in use). It blows UltraRecall out of the water, to be honest! The “tag” search function has just had me giggling, because you can assign tags to items, then ctrl-click on them, and they appear in a separate search list. Beautifully thought-out, to be frank. Oh, and you can mass-import, too (RTF, HTML and text files are all imported into rich-text items, other files are added as attachments and - get this - full-text indexed, so even though you can’t see them, you can search for content inside them). Who is this guy?!

How do I find these things? I am fascinated by knowledge management tools of all kinds (I’m currently devising my own collaborative concept, but it’s a very long way from completion!), and I’m constantly on the lookout for new ideas and new paradigms. This, I have to say, currently takes the Great Big Chocolate Biscuit. Now if only he was working on a collaborative version… Hey, maybe he is! I’ve invited him to join the forum, anyway.

Cheers,
Bill