Text database using custom properties

[Jim Ault]

On 12/9/05 4:13 PM, "Brian Alleyne" <b.alleyne at btinternet.com> wrote:
> I am building a note and outline manager in rev.
> Any advice is welcome. (the entire quoted below)
Well, depending on how much this is a labor of love vs need-to-get-it-
running-soon, you might check out NoteTaker.  Dan Shafer recommended it and
I decided very quickly to buy it.
www.aquaminds.com

Very powerful, and does automatic indexing on
Categories, Date, Documents, Email addresses, last changed, numbers,
priority, Proper Words, Text, Web Sites.

Each entry in the outline can even display an active web page of the link it
contains.

But if you are like most of us...
 building your own is what appeals to you :-)

Jim Ault
Las Vegas


> Hi all
> 
> I am building a note and outline manager in rev. I've worked out my user
> interface, but before going further I wanted to seek some advice on text
> handling before working on the data engine.
> 
> I will store  memo fields of various lengths, these would have styled
> text, and would be typed in or imported in html or rtf form from other
> applications. Some of these memo fields could run to 50 or 60 pages of
> text.  I will need to quickly search for any word or string in these
> memo fields. I expect to store potentially thousands of these memo fields.
> 
> I was thinking of creating a data stack and storing the memo fields as
> custom properties - in essence using rev as my database. I've read Dan
> Shafer and Richard Gaskin on this, and if I understand them, it seems as
> if this is a reasonable way to go.
> 
> In sum, is rev good for a freetext database with thousands of memos or
> should I be looking at something like Valentina?
> 
> I am worried about the performance hit on searching when my database
> grows to say,  10000 memos.
> 
> Any advice is welcome.
> 
> best regards,
> 
> Brian
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