Re: Asking suggestions for writing this kind of software

From:

Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com>

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comp.lang.java.programmer

Date:

Mon, 23 Mar 2015 19:01:26 +0100

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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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