[ale] Information Management Software

[fd0man™—The Magical Floppy Man]

On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 23:56 -0400, Vikram Nanda wrote:

> I am looking for an all in one Information management software which
> can store all my documents (and categorize them), image files, e-mail
> addresses etc . It should be intuitive and simple to set up and use. I
> don't require a multiuser setup. An access password should be
> necessary though.
> 
> I liked Kumula because of it's simplicity but it it's lacking in
> features.
> Knowledge tree - needs some rtfm for configuration work. I might go
> for it if I don't come across a simpler alternative.
> 
> I need some suggestions on this. (A combination of Kumula, Knowledge
> Tree, Thunderbird and Kdissert would be perfect)
> 
> Thanks,
> Vikram
> 


I am not familiar with the many of the tools that you have mentioned
(Kumula, Knowledge Tree, and Kdissert), but I can suggest that if you
are using the KDE environment, Kontact is quite awesome for time
tracking, address book functionality, mail, news, calendaring, and more
as a general PIM tool.  As for document and image storing, the best
things I can think of are just using the file system to do that job,
since you are talking about a single user setup.  If you need to retain
file history information or something like that, what you can do is just
keep something like a subversion repository and set up cron jobs to
regularly commit changes by date/time or something, which would provide
you at the very least the ability to keep track of the history of your
document and image repositories at any point in time.  There would be a
little bit of setup there, but it isn't all that hard to do.

    ? Mike

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