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Posted by Airways
Oct 25, 2012 at 04:38 PM
Hey guys.
While digging into InfoQube, I was wondering if there are other similar programs - similar in that they have a database backend of some kind (Access or SQLite for instance) and that they all for creation of custom sets / lists of items, and customization of fields for those sets of items. Does anyone know of other programs that meet these requirements?
Posted by Jon Polish
Oct 25, 2012 at 06:40 PM
If I understand your request, Ultra Recall would be worth a look. It is highly configurable and can be made to mimic InfoQube. There are others but I think their databases are proprietary (Zoot, MyInfo, Info Select, etc.).
Jon
Posted by Cassius
Oct 25, 2012 at 07:19 PM
myBase - proprietary database.
Posted by Airways
Oct 25, 2012 at 07:51 PM
Jon Polish wrote:
> There are others but I think their databases are proprietary (Zoot, MyInfo, Info Select, etc.).
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.
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