People often ask us how Personal Knowbase first came to exist. In short, it came to exist because we needed such a tool ourselves and couldn’t find other software that fit our needs, so we wrote it.
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Why Index Your Notes with Keywords (Part 2)
Software that stores freeform text information commonly uses three ways to structure data:
- Searching with Straight Text Strings
- Categorizing in Hierarchical Trees
- Indexing with User-specified Keywords
Why Index Your Notes with Keywords (Part 1)
Personal Knowbase uses a system where users specify keywords to index their notes. When you create a new text note in the software, you tag the note with one or more keywords (or key-phrases) which will later provide a fast way to locate that note.
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Converting from Cardfile to Personal Knowbase
Recent versions of Windows (starting with Windows 7) don’t include distribution of the Windows Cardfile utility. Since Microsoft stopped support for Win XP, more and more people are looking for new ways to access their old Cardfile files.
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SquareNote Custom Import Format
Personal Knowbase can not import SquareNote files directly. However, it has a feature called “custom import formats” that allows you to define a format for importing text files. We have created such a “custom import format” for importing notes exported from SquareNote.
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