If you’re using Personal Knowbase’s portability mode to carry your notes with you on removable media such as a USB drive, you have extra security risks. Here are tips for protecting your data.
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Occasionally, you may discover that you have two (or more) keywords in your Personal Knowbase data file that are redundant. Plurals, alternate spellings, and abbreviations are common culprits.
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When you first start using Personal Knowbase, the software always asks you to verify that you want to save an article when you close it. As you become more familiar with the software, you may find these verification dialog boxes unnecessary, perhaps annoying.
The dialog box itself gives you the option to stop showing it for the rest of the current PK session. However, the next time you start up PK again, the warning dialogs will be back.
If you find yourself always disabling these dialog boxes, you may want to turn them off permanently and never see them again.
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Personal Knowbase has no built-in way to search for a text string across multiple data files.
However, within a single PK session, the Find dialog box remembers its settings, even after you’ve opened a different file. So you can search for the same string using the same range and search settings by opening each data file consecutively and re-running Find without changing the settings.
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Did you know that you can make Personal Knowbase automatically open a specific data file whenever it starts up?
To specify a file to open at startup:
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You can drag whole blocks of text from most other Windows applications directly into Personal Knowbase’s Index Window to create a new article.
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A recent tip explained how to export a Personal Knowbase article as an HTML code snippet. What if you want to go in the other direction and import a snippet of HTML code from an HTML file to save in PK for future use as HTML code?
If you import the file as an HTML file, PK removes the HTML code and converts the formatting to its internal rich-text formatting. You end up with just the text without the HTML code.
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One common use for Personal Knowbase is to store code snippets, specifically in this case HTML code snippets.
However, if you try to export an article containing HTML using the export file type HTML Files, you end up with garbage. For example, let’s say you have an article containing this text:
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In these days of large, cheap hard drives, most of us don’t feel any need to compact a database file to save disk space.
But Personal Knowbase’s Compact command does more than reduce your data file to its minimum size. Here are three additional tasks Compact can help you with:
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PK Tip: Copying Articles from One Knowbase File to Another
Sometimes you may find it useful to copy (or move) articles from one Knowbase data file to another. You may want to break a data file into two smaller files, or to create a new file containing only a small subset of the articles in a larger file (for example, to share those articles with a friend or colleague). Or you may want to move old, obsolete articles to an “archive” data file.
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