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Carnivorous Sheep
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
Baa?21244 Posts
August 12 2014 23:42 GMT
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I'm hunting for a good commonplace book program (for desktop, not mobile). For those who are unaware, a commonplace book is just a book of random tidbits of information. Specifically, I would like one designed for quote collection and management.

Some digging around has come up with this: http://www.norbauer.com/miskatonic/

I have a general conception of what I want in terms of features and such, and judging by the description, Miskatonic is exactly what I'm looking for. Unfortunately, it appears to be a work in progress with no set time horizon, so I might be waiting quite a while for release.

Does anyone know of any good alternatives? I would mainly want to use this to jot down passages that I come across while reading books, so important features would be an easy way to manage citations/referencing - information like author, title, book info (ISBN/publisher/translator/etc.), page number, etc.

An idealized version I have in mind would be essentially a database. The process would go something like this:

1. Start reading a book, and input information like Author/Title/Translator/ISBN/other pertinent info.
2. As I read, if I come across a passage I want to save for later, pull up the book entry, input the quote and page number, and have the program do all the dirty work of cataloging and organizing it. Maybe have tagging functions as well for some keywords on themes/context/etc.
3. Fairly robust search + display capabilities, comparable (equivalent?) to a database.

(My friend actually suggested I just set-up a database myself so I could have it do whatever I want it to do. Tempting if I can't find a good alternative)

I've seen suggestions to use generic note taking apps like Evernote, but they don't seem like they can easily replicate all of these (seemingly simple?) functions. Though that could be a function of my inexperience with the program. I'm currently fiddling with Evernote and trying it out to see if I can get it to do mostly what I want while I keep an eye out for alternatives. Understand this is kind of a niche application and what I'm looking for might not even exist, but if anyone has any suggestions, definitely post them here.

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Serejai
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
6007 Posts
August 13 2014 01:26 GMT
#2
I kinda agree with your friend. An excel or access database would be very easy to make and you can use formulas and macros to do anything a full blown program could do. Over the years I've had to make quite a few niche spreadsheets for my needs because I couldn't find any com
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Serejai
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
6007 Posts
August 13 2014 01:26 GMT
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Mercially available ones. Stupid phone bugging out.
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