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Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Jun 9, 2016 at 05:21 PM
Another possibility to consider is CintaNotes:
You’d have to devise a tagging scheme to organize by topic/category and author, but that shouldn’t be too difficult.
Steve Z.
Posted by Pierre Paul Landry
Jun 9, 2016 at 05:56 PM
Brad91 wrote:
What software would you recommend for organizing thousand of quotes?
The quotes would have to be able to be sorted by date, author and multiple types/categories.
Would you recommend a straightforward relational database or another tool?
InfoQube would handle that task with ease.
- You have custom fields, search, sorting and filtering.
- You can now categorize with multi-select pop-up list if need be
- Pivot tables to summarize.
- Live-links to Excel to report and share
- Rich text directly in the grid and in a separate rich text pane
- Zotero import possible is needed
- Timeline for a date-dependent view of the quotes
Pierre Paul Landry
IQ Designer
http://www.infoqube.biz/
Posted by Achim
Jun 10, 2016 at 03:28 PM
Maybe GS-Base could be an option for you.
http://www.citadel5.com/gs-base.htm
It’s table-based, provides arbitrary categories, sorting, printed reports, build in functions, is portable, light-weight and very fast.
Runs on Windows only.
best regards
Achim
Posted by jbaltsar
Jun 11, 2016 at 01:16 PM
Hi there,
I suggest you have a look at Daniel Lüdeckes Zettelkasten (http://zettelkasten.danielluedecke.de/). It’s made for collecting academic quotations, excerpts and literature citations, modelled after Luhmanns Zettelkasten method. It is somewhat idiosyncratic in it’s UI, but quite powerful in it’s filtering (source/author, keywords, ...) and output options (htms, rtf, latex, odt etc).
I looked for quite the same thing for a long time and tried dozens of programs. Relational DB systems are normally too clumsy, you have to worry about tables, indexes, queries etc. ConnectedText felt somewhat clumsy in it’s own way, especially for huge numbers of small snippets. CintaNotes was promising, but I would have to pay to get rich text. DataCrow is not a bad program for such cases, but it doesn’t have rich text. So while Zettelkasten may be somewhat unconventional, it comes very close to what you are looking for.
Judith
Posted by Slartibartfarst
Jun 12, 2016 at 09:33 AM
There’s lots of proggies you could use to store quotes, and some I have used are:
* Lotus Agenda - FREE Text only, no RTF (on Win10-64 that would have to be run under DOSBOX from http://www.dosbox.com
Agenda is a DOS program, available via download links per Wikipedia entry as public domain.).
Text can be stored as small text files outside the database, and thus searchable by WDS (Windows Desktop Search).
* CHS (Clipboard Help & Spell): FREE Text (no RTF) and images (from DonationCoder.com).
An excellent clipboard and very nifty tool whose database is great for storing any text content and (separately) images - though text can be attached to images - and all is rapidly searchable with user-configurable “virtual” folders (auto-generated and stored SQL search terms).
Arguably one of the best - if not THE best - clipboard tool available, though it lacks the RTF+images and HTML capability of NoteFrog.
* Notefrog: USD10 or so, text, RTF+images and HTML From http://notefrog.com/
Another excellent and very useful clipboard tool, it even has a ready-made database of quotes for users. In Beta development, upgrades have stopped until they sort out how to resource future development.
* Info Select: Superb PIM: USD-Lots. I use IS8 (version 8), but there are later versions IS9, IS10. IS11 Beta has just been launched (I am trialling it now).
Text can/could be stored as small text files outside the database, and thus searchable by WDS (Windows Desktop Search)..
* MS Excel 2016 spreadsheet-database: Could be a perfect tool for this sort of thing.
Flexible options. Having a database using a common and widely-used database format could make it easy to share or to migrate to another database tool. It’s an LCD (.CSV format would be a Lowest Common Denominator).
The content of Excel spreadsheets can be indexed/searched by WDS (Windows Desktop Search).
* InfoQube: Could be a perfect tool for this sort of thing.
Not sure if Flexible options. Having a database using an uncommon/proprietary database format could make it difficult to share or to migrate to another database tool.
* GS-base: Could be a perfect tool for this sort of thing.
Not sure if Flexible options. Having a database using an uncommon/proprietary database format could make it difficult to share or to migrate to another database tool.
* OneNote: As a relatively advanced user of OneNote, I wouldn’t recommend it for this kind of task per se, though I would suggest that you could well keep the quotes database in (say) Excel and store it as an object contained in a OneNote Notebook. This would give you the benefit of having the database optionally as:
(a) just existing in a Notebook on the client, or
(b) existing in a Notebook in the Cloud AND on the client, and
(c) shareable, if in a Notebook in the Cloud.
- in addition to which, you would have the database in a tool (Excel) which is widely used and has an LCD format (as described above).
However, objects like Excel spreadsheets do not currently have their context indexed/searchable by either OneNote search or WDS, so that could be a potential drawback.
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Just some thoughts. Hope they are of use/help.