Friday, February 29, 2008

Hi

I am just wondering if this Blog is actually active - there do not seem to be any posts in it. I am not sure whether this is because it is just new or because it has just moved. I am interested in posting stuff here - is anyone reading it?

All the best

Ian Moore

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hello,

I have a kinda "knowledge-management situation" and I really would like to know what tools should I choose now to make this thing work.

I know the FreeMind mind mapping software, which is great to in creating a visual structure of human thoughts. Also know (but did not use yet) the DokuWiki which is good at creating knowledge based on tags and hierarchical.

Here is my situation: I have several books, which are really important for me so I decided to process their content into a system, where I can find all knowledge connecting to a certain topics in chronological order. E.g. I would like to search for a word like "industry". I would like to list everything about "industry" between 1975-1990. Of course it means that I have to include a datum and a tagging system beneath the real content I type in.

My requisites:

* would be great to run it on a local computer browser (even on a simple small netbook), preferably without running a web-server, or running a web-server locally (localhost). It is also good if it is just a desktop application.

* should have an extra-fast editor that allows text typing very fast (like at Notepad++ text editor)

* allows to enter chronological data by year (e.g. 1970)

* allows to enter any kind of tagging information (e.g. "industry", "factory", "workers")

* easy tag-assignment to already existing content

* its search would show the result in chronological order, like. (imaginary example) word "industry"
in 1975
between 1976-1980
in 1983
in 1996
etc...

So for this purposes I think neither Freemind, nor Wikipedia is suitable.

Can you recommend any kind of (preferebly open source) knowledge managment system that accomplishes this task?

thanks,
bacizone

8:36 PM  

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