Re: databases for note-taking with semantic search, and bibl

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Posted by talazem
2005-10-24 18:05:23

I appreciate all the discussion regarding the topic.

My main problem with Zoot - and with Biblioscape, for that matter - is that they do not support all languages; i.e. foreign scripts, by using utf-8/unicode, is not available (i assume since Zoot doesn’t even permit for rtf). My research requires the ability to enter things in non-latin languages; and one particular need is the ability to work in right-to-left, for Arabic and Hebrew.

I’ve downloaded some of the software recommended here - Zoot (see problems above), Idea!, MDE InfoHandler, ADM. ADM is not doing so well in the titles of the notes with the non-latin script, nor is it coming up in searches. InfoHandler looks promising; i have yet to really try Idea!.

None of the above, however, really answered the issue of semantic searches, which is one of Devonthink’s main selling points.

What Daly mentioned about Biblioscape would really be ideal, if not for the problems i mentioned above. I gave it a try a few months ago, and even had some correspondence with Paul, the developer, but he said no unicode for quite a while, maybe up to a year.

Semantic searching, anyone? I downloaded AskSam as a trial, but besides being expensive, i also couldn’t get the non-latin (arabic) fonts to show. Any other suggestions in general?

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