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From: Bjorn S. on 24 Oct 2009 11:32
Yrrah wrote in <kt16e5p503ovhk7gqgkmh8sd9p3dt77e3v(a)net.com>:

>"Smereka is a freeware program that allows you to organize your data
>in an hierarchical, searchable database stored in a single file.

>http://yp.lviv.ua/smereka/en/index.html
>
>Anyone tried this program?

Nice find, thanks! Just installed it. First impression: Organizer
similar to keynote and treepad. But the first thing I notice is a very
nice and easy to use import feature, where it monitors a given import
folder and imports any file you drop into it (folder configured under
Tools - Settings). If you do not specify a folder, the default is a
folder on your desktop. The folder will be created once you enable the
feature in the Tools menu, "enable special folder importing"). If you
created the folder your self beforehand, Smerka reports error, so you
must allow it to create said import folder on its own.

Enabling this feature and dropping some files into that folder, and
Smereka starts importing. It recognize and will display plain text
files with txt extension as well as htm/html files, but it not
recognize plain text files with other extension than text, they will
be handles as other file format, added as attachments. So, other file
formats (not text and html) is added as attachments only. When you
look at these files as entry in the Smereka tree, you'll see a field
where you can add comments to the file (say describe its content) and
a button to open the attached file in your default program (as
determined by windows file associations).

After the first import I dropped some more files into my import folder
just to see if it would import not only the new files added, but also
the existing ones, but it did not. So no duplicates created. Good.
The way it handles this is simple: It changes the file extension of
each files imported by adding a new one ".done".

Will look more at this later. In particular the export feature, which
I think always is a vital feature to look for before one begins adding
data to apps of this kind. I mean, who hasn't spent time adding data
to a program, only to later find there was no export option <g>. Right
now I have only observed a export feature exists (export database and
export to files), but have not tried this yet. Must also look closer
at Smereka's search capabilities. :)

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From: Bjorn S. on 24 Oct 2009 13:17
Yrrah wrote in <rpb6e5hi5srcthop5j67kkoibfevjdn1tb(a)net.com>:

>Bjorn S. <bsusenet(a)broadpark.no>:
>
>> Will look more at this later. In particular the export feature, which
>> I think always is a vital feature to look for before one begins adding
>> data to apps of this kind.
>
>I agree. Import and export features are extremely important. I prefer
>programs which can import from and export to TreePad files. KeyNote
>can do both.

Unfortunately the current version does not seem to be able to import
Keynote and Treepad files the way you mean here. It can import the
*.knt and *.tpd files, but only as attachements. What you can do on
the other hand; say in Keynote - export all nodes to individual files,
txt or rtf, then import in Smereka. But if you export an entire
Keynote tree like that, you will loose your tree structure ....
Smereka seems to handle RTF ok btw. At least simple formatting, have
not tried more than a few rtf files now (output from Keynote).

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From: Craig on 24 Oct 2009 13:41
On 10/24/2009 07:00 AM, Yrrah wrote:
> "Smereka is a freeware program that allows you to organize your data
> in an hierarchical, searchable database stored in a single file.

This uses SQLite for the database:
<http://yp.lviv.ua/smereka/en/features.html>

SQLite is the same db used for, e.g., FireFox 3.x bookmarks.
<http://www.sqlite.org/famous.html>

Interesting find.

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From: Ron May on 24 Oct 2009 19:25
On Sat, 24 Oct 2009 17:32:23 +0200, Bjorn S. <bsusenet(a)broadpark.no> wrote:

(A review for):
> >http://yp.lviv.ua/smereka/en/index.html

Thanks, Bjorn. Excellent review.

The import folder concept looks very interesting. There's some proprietary
software that I use at work that has been recently updated with a new
feature where each case now has an electronic "drop folder" not to
eliminate but rather supplement a paper case file. I've found this to be a
great organizing tool. To have a similar feature for home use seems ideal.
I'm certainly going to check it out as soon as I can find the time.

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