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Why no love for MyBase? My early review:
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Posted by Lucas
Jul 9, 2018 at 06:50 PM
cicerosc wrote:
Are there no screenshots anywhere? It’s a red flag in itself that the
>home page doesn’t seem to have any.
Indeed, it’s odd that the home page does’t have any, but there are some on softpedia:
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/Servers/Database-Utils/myBase-Desktop-Edition.shtml
(Click on “Screenshots” down on the lower left of the page.)
Posted by nathanb
Jul 9, 2018 at 08:22 PM
Jon Polish wrote:
Also the interface is distinctly unusual. The slowdown Paul refers to is
>still present, at least in my testing. And the hierarchical tags (if my
>memory is correct) are not what one would expect. For example
>
>A
>...1
>....2
>B
>...3
>...4
>
>In CintaNotes, assigning tag 2 also assigns tag A. The result looks like
>this: A/2.
>
>Selecting tag 2 in myBase assigns tag 2 only. To get the same result as
>CintaNotes, you must select the parent tag too. Again, this is based on
>my memory of myBase.
>
>Jon
Thank you for pointing this out. I did some checking and at first thought that your impression was no longer true because it shows the parent path of the tag both in the item metadata and the filtered tag list. However, if I tag with only the child, the item won’t show when only selecting the parent tag. So you are absolutely right.
I’m not quite sure if I’d rather see it inherit parent tags as I’m trying to wrap my head around how to utilize nested tags AND cloning. Like I think I’d be more likely to use the cloning as an alternate classification hierarchy and treat the tags (MB calls them labels, in this discussion I consider tags/labels the same thing) more like descriptive attributes where the nesting has more to do with keeping a growing list orderly than to reflect a hard hierarchy…. nah I’m just BS-ing myself. I’d prefer they inherit and even transclude. Would be nice if this was an option.
I’ll bet it’s really annoying for Pierre to read these threads as they all tend to bend towards ‘IQ can do all of these things’.
Posted by Jon Polish
Jul 9, 2018 at 08:27 PM
Ha, ha, ha! Very true (that IQ can do all these thing AND that Pierre will say this).
Jon
nathanb wrote:
>I’ll bet it’s really annoying for Pierre to read these threads as they
>all tend to bend towards ‘IQ can do all of these things’.
Posted by Pierre Paul Landry
Jul 9, 2018 at 08:40 PM
Jon Polish wrote:
Ha, ha, ha! Very true (that IQ can do all these thing AND that Pierre will say this).
LOL, far from true, as IQ is Windows only (unless on a VM) , and doesn’t really have nested tags yet
Pierre
Posted by nathanb
Jul 9, 2018 at 08:55 PM
>LOL, far from true, as IQ is Windows only (unless on a VM) , and doesn’t
>really have nested tags yet
>
>Pierre
I’m aware of Paul Miller’s recent work-around to get IQ to act ‘as-if’ it does nested tags. That really says a lot IQ’s core concept of ‘everything is an item and any item can be a parent/child of any other item’ and how ultimately flexible that is in practice.