On Paul Korm's suggestion, I wrote to Mark Bernstein who was kind enough to respond to my newbie-ish query (i.e. the first message in this thread). With his permission, I am sharing his response on th...

Thank you, Paul Korm and Ken. Have emailed Mark Bernstein my query. Will definitely check comparative articles about HyperCard and other similar software. Will report back to the forum if something ta...

Jeffery Smith wrote: Not sure how far back you are indicating. I found Leading Edge Nutshell >to be pretty much a file card metaphor. and the MSDOS version of askSam >allowed making fields on a temp...

As far as I understand, some of the earliest info management (IM) software mimicked the index card tray (or the Rolodex device). In this case, the IM software was modeled after the structure of a card...

Dr Andus wrote: There are wikis and blogging platforms that you could self-host. For me >the problem would be that note-taking is supposed to be quick, so it >does not disrupt the reading or researc...

I am interested in finding a decent open source note-taking software that I could host on my server (or on any VPS) as an alternative to Evernote or to have an online/cloud version of KeyNote NF. Any ...

Has anyone on this forum used NoteCards on LISP machines (or its $595 *NIX implementation by Venue/Medley)? If yes, how efficient was it in terms of information storage and retrieval? Has it been port...