Database based PIM programs?

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Oct 25, 2012 at 09:38 PM

Airways wrote:
>Proprietary is fine too. Ideally it’d be nice to
>be able to write my own programs to interact with the data, but if the tool itself is
>flexible enough that might not be needed.

It is my impession that the majority of programs we discuss here nowadays are database driven. You probably know the stats about how every 1-2 years nowadays we produce as much information as mankind did in all its history up to then—non database based (pun not intended) PIMs simply cannot cope. There are some rare exceptions of course, such as Brainstorm, which can get away without using a database by reducing the “richness” of information held—Brainstorm is plain text only, with no images or other attachments.

I would suggest that you check out Notecase Pro at http://virtual-sky.com It is cross platform and scriptable with Lua. You’ll find a treasure of Lua scripts to use as starting point. With Notecase Pro you actually have a choice of using database or not, at the file level. It can work with a variety of formats; the database format is .ncdb