General Knowledge Base

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Posted by Tomas
Jun 8, 2006 at 02:55 PM

I would like to suggest new software which is not listed in this portal.

General Knowledge Base from http://www.baltsoft.com/product_gkb.htm

General Knowledge Base is a program which provides an opportunity to create and manage your own knowledge base. Using General Knowledge Base the creation of your own knowledge base becomes quick and simple. The program’s interface makes it easy to use and handle.

Why would I need General Knowledge Base on my computer?

General Knowledge Base is a useful information organizer for collectors, hobbyists, librarians, writers and other professionals as well as for home users.

General Knowledge Base allows users to create knowledge bases with any type of documents. It is an optimal tool for categorizing, processing, finding and describing documents, information and data. It allows the user to keep documents organized, to add notes and attachments, and to export documents into different file formats at any time.

Creating, editing and deleting documents with General Knowledge Base is very simple, and does not require any specialized knowledge. Every document can contain additional notes and attachments, which are also easy to create and manage.

General Knowledge Base makes documents easy to find and retrieve. There is no need to spend time searching for files and folders on your computer. Users can see all documents and information organized by category and topic. Powerful search and filtering engines makes documents easy to find with just a few keywords.

In addition, documents and notes may be formatted with an MS Word-like rich-text editor. This makes General Knowledge Base perfectly suited for keeping various information such as notes, recipes, famous quotations, tables, pictures, Web-links, and even entire pages from the Internet.

General Knowledge Base contains these and many more features for the maintenance of a knowledgebase. It is simple and easy to use, but also a very powerful tool for keeping information and documents organized and easy to find.

Main features of the knowledge base software:

. practical and comfortable user interface;
. free-form database
. supports Rich Text Format (RTF);
. Microsoft Word style document editing tool;
. up to 128 GB of data storage;
. Client/Server technology allows multi-user support via LAN, VPN, WAN, or Internet;
. user manager with access permissions;
. ability to group documents in a very effective way;
. notes manager and attachments are available for each document;
. fast document search;
. spell check;
. password protection of data;
. ability to search for exact phrase or any keywords;
. ability to perform search inside the document text;
. capture and store web data;
. bookmark documents;
. easy to manage categories tree;
. print and preview using templates;
. ability to export documents to PDF, HTML, RTF, TXT and Microsoft Word;
. batch export documents with just two clicks;
. effective database maintenance;
. support client/server database technology;
. available online update;
. program windows layout manager;
. variety of customizing options;
. does not install additional files in other directories;
. does not require additional DLLs, VBXs, OCXs;
. and much more.

Posted by Daly de Gagne
Jun 8, 2006 at 03:53 PM

The post regarding General Knowledge Base appears to be a cut and paste from the developer’s web page, so one imagines the sender may be connected with the developer. Whether that is the case or not, it would perhaps have been more useful if you had discussed why GKB may be superior to other products on the market.

Thanks.

Daly

Posted by Kenneth Rhee
Jun 8, 2006 at 04:10 PM

Daly,

Tomas is the developer of GKB. I used the program awhile back, and I found it interesting, but it had a few shortcomings (unfortunately, I can’t recall right off the bat). Might be worthwhile to try the latest version.

Ken

Posted by Kenneth Rhee
Jun 8, 2006 at 04:26 PM

Kenneth Rhee wrote:
>Daly,
> >Tomas is the developer of GKB. I used the program awhile back, and I found it
>interesting, but it had a few shortcomings (unfortunately, I can’t recall right off
>the bat).

I’ve just downloaded the latest and gave it a quick try. As I said before, it’s a nice program, but it fell short for me on severl fronts:

1. There is no way to change the units for page margins and the ruler. I know for the rest of the world, this sounds silly, but I’m so used to the British system that I need that option.
2. There is no way (as far as I can tell) to export searched results (I think you can export or print one topic at a time). This is must for any program I use.
3. No ability to filter the topics/categories.

I think those were the show stoppers for me, but YMMV.

Ken

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