Note taking and information management
Posted: 19 Oct 2015 20:22
Hello,
I've been really enjoying XYplorer for day-to-day file/folder management needs but one area that I think has room to improve is handling of vast amounts of data.
I know that most would say that there are other products out there that are aimed at such audience but I think XYplorer already has one foot in the door and just needs to add few extra features to make it a complete knowledge management package.
Namely, I am referring to the following three items:
1) Indexed content search with keyword highlighting
I know developing a powerful search indexer is a full project on its own, but there are already numerous interesting titles out there that could be used as a plugin or addon. A few that come to mind is DTSearch and Apache Lucene. In addition, to make a full use of the search engine, a powerful internal file viewer like Oracle Outside In would come handy in order to display search hit results inside of documents (PDF, DOCX, XLSX, RTF, HTML, etc.). I believe XYplorer already support QuickView Standard which is based on Oracle's Outside In libraries so this is a good starting point.
2) Rich text editor with image and table support - taking notes on the fly would be a dream come true. Having multiple notes open in separate tabs with ability to open each in undocked window would even make it better. Again, maybe integrate this as an addon using some open source library.
3) Convenient tagging - something similar to Evernote or TagSpaces. This would allow to quickly group notes/files/folder by urgency/subject/time etc.
I've got more ideas but IMO the above three are the key for XYplorer to make that leap.
Let me know your feedback.
I've been really enjoying XYplorer for day-to-day file/folder management needs but one area that I think has room to improve is handling of vast amounts of data.
I know that most would say that there are other products out there that are aimed at such audience but I think XYplorer already has one foot in the door and just needs to add few extra features to make it a complete knowledge management package.
Namely, I am referring to the following three items:
1) Indexed content search with keyword highlighting
I know developing a powerful search indexer is a full project on its own, but there are already numerous interesting titles out there that could be used as a plugin or addon. A few that come to mind is DTSearch and Apache Lucene. In addition, to make a full use of the search engine, a powerful internal file viewer like Oracle Outside In would come handy in order to display search hit results inside of documents (PDF, DOCX, XLSX, RTF, HTML, etc.). I believe XYplorer already support QuickView Standard which is based on Oracle's Outside In libraries so this is a good starting point.
2) Rich text editor with image and table support - taking notes on the fly would be a dream come true. Having multiple notes open in separate tabs with ability to open each in undocked window would even make it better. Again, maybe integrate this as an addon using some open source library.
3) Convenient tagging - something similar to Evernote or TagSpaces. This would allow to quickly group notes/files/folder by urgency/subject/time etc.
I've got more ideas but IMO the above three are the key for XYplorer to make that leap.
Let me know your feedback.