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Looking for Information Application

Published by Chris Johnston on April 29, 2007 11:43 pm under General

I am looking for a good way of storing information, things like serial numbers, lists, code snippets, etc. Some of the info is personal so I don’t want to use a web based application. I looked at “Circus Ponies Notebook”:http://www.circusponies.com/store/index.php?main_page=notebook&sub=organize, but I am not sure I want something that is outline based (it is hard to store a code snippet as an outline). I am also looking for something that works on OS X.

Another requirement is that everything is stored in one app/file, I don’t want to have to continually load up different files. I would also like the application to store my information in some form of plain text so if the app stops being developed or supported, I still have access to my info.

I am currently demoing “Yojimbo,”:http://www.barebones.com/products/yojimbo/ which is meets all of my requirements except the last one–the information being stored in plain text.

Anyone have any suggestions?

9 Comments so far

  1. Simon Harris on April 30th, 2007

    1passwd rocks my world. It doesn’t store it in plain text; it stores it in your keychain making it secure and backup-able (if that’s even a word hehe).

  2. ade on April 30th, 2007

    Try using a personal wiki like Tomboy, VoodooPad or even Instiki. I use KwikWiki (a Java wiki I wrote myself) and run it on my laptop. It stores everything in plain text files so that Spotlight can index it and it has its own full-text search as well.

  3. Ronnie Holm on April 30th, 2007

    I used Flexwiki as a personal wiki for the most part of a year. It stores the pages as text in the filesytem.

    In the end, though, I went back to regular text files. I describe why here:

    http://www.bugfree.dk/blog/2006/12/04/text-files-vs-personal-wiki

  4. Steve Kalkwarf on April 30th, 2007

    I don’t think we’ll stop developing Yojimbo any time soon, but you can always export your data by dragging individual items, or choosing the FIle->Export menu item.

  5. Wirianto Djunaidi on April 30th, 2007

    I am using twidllywiki myself, it is a portable wiki that doesn’t require server..totally based on javascript and stored everything in plain text..hmm, plain html :)

    It also supports tagging system, so it is nice for categorizing stuff.

  6. Wirianto Djunaidi on April 30th, 2007

    I am using tiddlywiki (http://www.tiddlywiki.com/) myself, it is a portable wiki that doesn’t require server..totally based on javascript and stored everything in plain text..hmm, plain html :)

    It also supports tagging system, so it is nice for categorizing stuff.

  7. Tim on May 1st, 2007

    Journler’s worth a look too. It’s similar to Yojimbo.

    I haven’t taken a look how it stores it’s data though.

    http://journler.com/

  8. Chris Johnston on May 2nd, 2007

    Many thanks to all who posted suggestions. I am still investigating which one I like best. The suggestions all seem to split between two different ideas:

    * the ability to store and categorized lots of bits of information (yojimbo, journler)
    * and the ability to put lots of information into one document (voodoopad, tiddlywiki)

    I can definitely see a use for both and I may have to pick one solution from both categories to fully satisfy my needs.

  9. Morgana on October 28th, 2008

    Thanks for writing this.

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