Data Organizer

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Jack Black

I seem to collect 2 things in abundance from the internet.

I save various articles from Usenet.
I save various Web pages I visit.

Does anyone know of some form of free form database that can
conveniently organize an assortment such as this?

Thanks
 
You could try the Cogitum ~ according to its blurb "Cogitum Co-Citer lets
you create collections of texts from the Internet. It automatically captures
selected text, its title, Internet address where the text was found, and the
date the text is added to the collection. You can also assign comments and
categories to the texts, organize them, send by e-mail, export/import,
search the collection, sort, print, and more. "

http://www.cogitum.com/
 
Jack Black said:
I save various articles from Usenet.
I save various Web pages I visit.

Does anyone know of some form of free form database that can
conveniently organize an assortment such as this?
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I suggest a Treepad like programme. If plain text is good enough en
you want a good search feature, I suggest Treepad Lite
(www.treepad.com), if you want RTF and tabs I recommend Keynote
(www.tranglos.com/free/index.html). Both are excellent, but
development appears to have slowed down, or even come to an halt.

Frank Delamarre
 
Jack said:
I seem to collect 2 things in abundance from the internet.

I save various articles from Usenet.
I save various Web pages I visit.

Does anyone know of some form of free form database that can
conveniently organize an assortment such as this?
Click to expand...

I've been using Correlate Personal 2.5 for this purpose:
http://www.correlate.com/correlate25/personal.asp

I like it because it's a knowledge map, not a tree-style organizer. You
can arrange your links and notes in tree-form, but you can also move
them around far more easily than in something like Keynote. And you can
see the map of your files and categories spread out across the screen,
which I find extremely useful in finding new connections among data and
in doing periodic reorganization.

You do have to beat the program into shape a bit -- the free version
wants to do things like connecting to your home page every time you open
it, so I told my firewall not to let it connect out -- but it's well
worth the effort.
 
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