Re: About free-form database

2008-06-10 Thread George N. White III
On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 5:42 PM, Adam C Powell IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 15:29 +, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: This is a debian-user question. Learn to use 'apt-cache search' -- there must be at least a hundred packages in Debian for what you describe, from note taking

About free-form database

2008-06-09 Thread Francesco Pietra
As a natural product chemist, memorizing data and chemical structures is routine in my job. Aside the brain, I was using a free-form database (which also allowed definition of flelds on-the-fly) driven through the emulation program 'wine'. In writing books it was of tremendous help. Since I

Re: About free-form database

2008-06-09 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
This is a debian-user question. Learn to use 'apt-cache search' -- there must be at least a hundred packages in Debian for what you describe, from note taking to mind mappming to personal wikis. Don't abuse debian-science because you think of yourself as a scientist. Dirk -- Three out of two

Re: About free-form database

2008-06-09 Thread Ethan Romander
On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 17:18 +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote: Well, enthusiasm if often momentary. Before embarking with grep and allies, I wonder whether there is established experience with what I have described. That would help indeed. I use a small wiki for my journalling. I started out with

Re: About free-form database

2008-06-09 Thread Adam C Powell IV
On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 15:29 +, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: This is a debian-user question. Learn to use 'apt-cache search' -- there must be at least a hundred packages in Debian for what you describe, from note taking to mind mappming to personal wikis. Don't abuse debian-science because