Mike Hord wrote:
> What I'm trying to push it to be used for is a repository of information
> which is currently scattered and unfindable.  Example:  one of my
> colleagues wrote a good document about proper grounding practices
> in industrial IEEE 1394 applications.  It was checked into our
> corporate document management system, where it sits, unused.
> No one knows where it is or how to find it.  It can't be found by
> casual browsing, or even by a text search, because all that system
> has for indexing is two 32-char strings for a descriptor.  So really,
> the only person who knows where that doc is and how to find it is
> him, and he already knows that information.
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I don't think a wiki is th=E9 solution, simply because all links are added =

manually !
This works great at the start, or if you've a very limited set of documents,
or if you've a preoccupied design.
I've considered a wiki for my personal information,
but if you just look at the information I personally gather in 1 year,
it's impossible to organize that in a wiki (although I use occasionally  =

PMwiki and  TidlyWiki).
You should have a combination of human organized indices and automatic =

maintained relations.
The relations should be personalized by each individual (both manually =

and automatically).
Last year I made the rough sketches for such a system,
and from those sketches it seems quit (very) easy to create such a system,
but I just have't got the time yet.
So I wonder why nobody yet created such a system ?
(Available Mindmappers AFAIK are much too static)

Google knows the solution ....
so why not use a local Google search system ?

cheers,
Stef Mientki

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