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Re: Asking suggestions for writing this kind of software

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On 23.03.2015 15:03, John wrote:

> I am sort of fascinated by this software.
>
> http://www.thebrain.com/
>
> It organizes(saves) the files/directories on your computer bases on
> your thoughts, not the traditional way(folder 'vocation', folder
> 'tax', folder 'cars' etc). A file in vocation folder maybe related to
> cars(for example, fixing car during vocation -- it happened to me)
> and tax(maybe that cost is tax related).

It seems you have to do the organization yourself.  I would be much more 
amazed if they did it automatically for you - like a mixture of thebrain 
and http://www.splunk.com/ .

> I am an experienced Java developer. I am interested in developing a
> software like that, of course heading different direction. So I am
> not stealing anything, just inspired by them. For example, academic
> researchers want to organize the current thoughts in THIS field: some
> thoughts are consistent, some are in contradiction. They always draw
> a mental map in their mind. A software more customized will help.
>
> What kind of technologies are used behind the scene? 1)is some kind
> of light database for storing the links between each node? Is this
> called knowledge based? 2)when a user creates a new node by mouse
> dragging, what kind of Java package can do that?

I think there are two aspects to this software:
  1. Presentation
  2. Storage

Second aspect could be handled by a graph database, e.g. http://neo4j.com/

First aspect is probably more tricky as layout of arbitrary graphs is 
hard to automate.

Kind regards

	robert


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