Horses for courses: Voodoopad, Tinderbox, Curio, Devonthink, etc

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Mar 5, 2013 at 05:02 PM

Prion wrote:
>3) The kind of information that I have the biggest problem finding a
>good home for is not the pieces of information as such but which
>connections I draw between them, this is separate from gathering the
>information in the first place and the most personal thing in the whole
>process.

I also don’t work on the Mac, and have not tested for myself the famous interoperability of applications. I just wonder, if you have more or less settled on Devonthink as your main repository, is it possible to use another tool to create relationships among Devonthink items? E.g., does Devonthink provide special links such as devothink:// which can directly open specific items?

My own choice for relating info would be TheBrain, which is available for Linux, Mac and Windows (runs on Java). The logic is very different to a wiki, as relationships are among whole items/entities, rather than via wikiwords integrated within the item texts. For me this provides a much better overview of connections.

Another strong contender (but less mature) is http://piggydb.net/ discussed here in the past. It provides wiki functionality, but also offers a way to relate whole entities among them via tags into visualisable relationships. I know my description is far from crystal clear, so you can see an example here: http://piggydb.jp/en/

Piggydb also runs on Java and is cross-platform. Additionally, it can run on a server which supports Java, and be accessible via LAN or the web, as is the above example. The Piggydb developer has a strong long term vision and is open to relevant suggestions.