Piggydb V6.12 – Search by ID in Fragments View

This week I’ve made a quick update to the fragments view search.

Typing a fragment ID (number) starting with ‘#’ in the search box shows the fragment directly if it exists in the database.

In addition to the above, this release contains several minor improvements and a bug fix. For example, droppable elements are highlighted during dragging a draggable entity (ex. tag):

You can download the latest release of Piggydb from:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/piggydb/files/latest/download

Piggydb V6.11 – Incremental Keyword Search in Fragments View

Hello. After a short period of pause, the development has been back on the track with a great new feature.

From this version 6.11, I’m going to add and improve a search feature in the fragments view.

The header label is the entrance to this new search capability:

Clicking on the label opens the search input box:

When you type keywords in the box, the view is automatically updated to show the fragments that match the keywords with highlighting:

If the view already has criteria to select fragments, such as a tag or filter, the keyword search will work as drill-down search:

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The external links in the content of fragments are now marked with an icon:

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The calendar feature at the home page, which has been since the first release of Piggydb, was removed in this version. Instead, I have a plan to add a more sophisticated feature in future versions.

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You can download the latest release of Piggydb from:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/piggydb/files/latest/download

Piggydb V6.10 – Document View Improvements and Korean Translation

I have added some changes to Document View to improve its accessibility (especially for Smartphones).

First, from this version, you can access the pages in Document View using a short-form URL like: /d/<id>, /d/<name>

Secondly, a Document View button has been added to the global header, which allows you to open the home fragment in Document View from anywhere:

Lastly, internal links to a fragment in Document View have been updated to point to the pages also in Document View rather than to the pages in standard view.

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Piggydb user Sungbin Jeon has very kindly contributed a Korean translation for Piggydb’s UI:

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You can download the latest release of Piggydb from:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/piggydb/files/latest/download

Piggydb V6.9 – Document View for Smart Phones and Tablets

Document View lets you browse your content in a plainer and simpler style, which allows you to concentrate on the content itself when you just want to read it. It is also suitable for printing.

Though it is useful and one of the key features of Piggydb, I’ve left it without updates for a long time.

In this version, I finally made relatively large changes to this feature improving its navigation and adding support for smart phones and tablets.

In the new navigation, you can move to the parents if they exist and directly to the home fragment via the home icon at the top-right corner:

I also added a table of contents to each page, which is useful for grasping the outline when the page is large:

As the most important part of this update, Document View now supports smart phones and tablets:

I think it will be a typical way to use Piggydb that you elaborate your knowledge on your desktop PC, then comfortably browse through it on your smart phone (yes, you need to set up a server to do this from outside your home network. I will take up this topic in detail in a future entry).

You can try out the new Document View at:
http://piggydb.jp/en/document-view.htm

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You can download the latest release of Piggydb from here.

Piggydb V6.8 – Improved Smart Layout

In version 6.4, I introduced Smart Layout, which automatically switches the page layout between vertical and horizontal layout according to the window width. However, this “experimental” implementation was, frankly, not very useful. So I updated it a little bit so that you can scroll each column independently:

I also updated some pages (fragment, tag, etc) to maintain the horizontal multi-column layout when you jump to another fragment or tag page from the home page.

In future versions, I hope to update the layout to be more flexible and customizable so that you can handle and browse a large amount of fragments more efficiently.

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This release also contains several bug fixes, such as broken all-in-one package:
http://piggydb.lighthouseapp.com/projects/61149-piggydb/tickets/42
(Thanks, Xin Yin!)

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You can download the latest release of Piggydb from here.

Piggydb V6.7 – Home Fragment

Happy new year! This is the first release of this year.

This release introduces Home Fragment that changes the way to select the fragments shown at the home page.

In the older versions, fragments with a #home tag will be shown at the home page. However, this feature has some disadvantages. For example, you can’t put a tag-fragment without the side-effect where the tag-fragment will inherit #home’s feature unexpectedly, which means the fragments tagged with the tag-fragment will also be shown at the home page. Also you can’t control the order of the fragments at home page with #home.

So, the old #home tag has been replaced with Home Fragment whose child-fragments will be shown at the home page with the order maintained.

The following is the steps to replace your #home tag with Home Fragment. It will be a matter of seconds.

First of all, click on the #home tag to jump to the page of it:

In that page, you can view all of the #home tagged fragments. What you need to do is just to click on the “Add this fragment to home page” button for each of them. That’s it.

Clicking on the button will create a relationship from Home Fragment to the fragment:

Clicking on the home icon will navigate you to the page of Home Fragment where you can reorder the child-fragments shown at the home page:

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Another change in this version is the way to open the content of a fragment. You can do that by clicking on the header of a fragment, not needing to click on the tiny toggle switch anymore.

Thanks for the suggestion:

http://piggydb.lighthouseapp.com/projects/61149-piggydb/tickets/34

You can download the latest version from here.

Piggydb V6.6 – Shuffle!

This is the last release of this year and a relatively important one suitable for the end of the year.

The new feature is Fragment Shuffle. A shuffle button has been added to Fragments View:

As you can probably tell, clicking on this button will shuffle the fragments that match the criteria in the Fragments View.

Although you might not understand the purpose of this feature well, it is a very important feature in the context of Knowledge Creation, which I’ve explained and will explain in details in the series of articles ‘The Piggydb Way’ and demonstrate in ‘Let’s Play: Piggydb Knowledge Creation‘.

So please stay tuned in to Piggydb project even if you aren’t using it now

Thank you very much for your support in 2012 and wish you a happy and intellectually exciting 2013!

(You can download the latest version from here.)

Piggydb V6.5 – Fragments View Label

A small release to get the rhythm again …

This release adds a description label to Fragments View:

As you can see in the above screenshots, the label also shows the number of found fragments.

You can download it from here.

PiggyPoster – A Piggydb fragment posting App for your iPhone

Yesterday, I noticed a post on Piggydb’s facebook page from Tobias Kamber who had just released a iPhone app called “PiggyPoster”. I immediately installed it on my iPod touch and tried it out. It turned out to be a simple and nice app just focusing on one task: to post a fragment to your Piggydb.

PiggyPoster on iTunes -
https://itunes.apple.com/ch/app/piggyposter-piggydb-fragment/id573951897?mt=8

One thing that may be a bit of hurdle is that you need to have Piggydb installed on an Internet-accessible server so that your iPhone can access to it, but if you can meet this requirement, it is worth trying out.

So if you are interested, try it out and send feedback to Tobias. I am really looking forward to seeing the future development of PiggyPoster.

Tobias’s websites:

• Software Atelier Kamber –
  http://www.software-atelier.ch/
  
• iPhone Apps – Software Atelier Kamber –
  http://iphone.hom3.ch/?lang=en
  

Piggydb V6.4 – Smart Layout

This release introduces Smart Layout, which switches the page layout automatically between vertical and horizontal layout according to the window width.

The following is the vertical layout, which was the standard layout in the older versions:

And when you make the width of your window wider than the certain extent, the layout will switch to the horizontal layout automatically:

You can resize the panes by drag-and-drop on the split bar.

Although this feature is still in an experimental phase, it would be useful if you have a high-resolution display. I’ve come up with several ideas in this experiment so far. So please look forward to updates

You can download it from here.