Piggydb V6.0-dev9 – New Editor in Tag and Filter Page

This release switches the new-fragment form in the tag and filter page to the new editor:

As you may already know, these forms have default tags derived from their context (the tag or filter concerned in the page) so that you can easily create fragments that fit into the context.

And finally, all of the old fragment forms have been removed and replaced with the new editor.

Piggydb V6.0-dev8 – New Editor for Related Fragments

This release switches the form of a new related(child) fragment to use the new editor:

Before this version, only an image fragment has the type icon in its caption. This version adds a file icon to the captions of all file fragments and you can download the files via this icon:

The fragment editor itself has also been updated to have a shortcut to put a new line markup (“~”) when Shift+Enter keys are pressed.

Piggydb V6.0-dev7 – Full-fledged File Upload Dialog

As several users kindly pointed out, the new file upload dialog did not have the inputs for the title and tags as the old editor. This was partly in order to simplify the first implementation of the new file upload mechanism, and partly because I thought the title of a file fragment might be redundant. But, I have changed my mind based upon the feedback, and in this version 6.0-dev7, these missing parts have been added to the dialog:

Piggydb V6.0-dev6 – Quick File Embedding

This release adds a new “Embed a file” tool button to the fragment editor toolbar:

Clicking on the button opens a file dialog, which allows you to select a file to be embedded into the current caret position in the editor:

After the selected file is saved into the database, embedding markup will be inserted automatically as below:

You can preview the content with the embedded files:

Piggydb V6.0-dev5 – On-the-Spot Edit for File Fragments

This release updates the “Edit this fragment” button in the fragment tool bar to support on-the-spot editing for file fragments:

Piggydb V6.0-dev4 – File Upload Dialog

This release adds a global “Add a file” button to the main menu bar, which allows you to upload a file and register it as a knowledge fragment.

Clicking on the button opens a file upload dialog:

You can preview the content of an image file before registering it:

Now that you can create both a text and file fragment anywhere via the main menu bar, I’ve deleted the old fragment editor from the home page.

Piggydb V6.0-dev3 – Minor Improvements

This is a quick release to add minor improvements along with bug and style fixes (details).

Piggydb user Johnny Lau kindly redrew the Piggydb icon as a scalable vector graphic:

The Windows executable icon has been replaced with this beautiful high-resolution version:

Thank you, Johnny!

Piggydb V6.0-dev2 – On-the-Spot Full-Edit Anywhere

This release makes the new fragment editor, which was introduced in the previous version, available for updating fragments.

Clicking on the edit button opens the new dialog editor instead of the quick editor so that you can edit all of the fragment’s attributes, including tags, on the spot:

The quick editor is still available via double-clicking on the fragment’s content area:

Piggydb V6.0-dev1 – New Fragment Editor

Long time no see. Actually it’s been about a half year since I released the last version. During the long break, I carried on the development little by little (as you know if you follow me on Twitter) and finally released Piggydb V6.0-dev1 today.

In the development of the version 6.x line, I’m going to try to reform the user interface drastically. The first attempt is to replace the fragment editor with a new one:

This new fragment editor is currently available only via the global “Create a new fragment” button in the menu bar. It’s going to replace all the old editors in the coming versions.

The new dialog-style editor can be applied ubiquitously compared to the old embedded-style editor, and makes it easy to edit larger fragments.

I thought before that keeping knowledge fragments small is a good practice in the context of knowledge creation and so the embedded-style editor would be enough for Piggydb. But now I’ve changed my mind. It would be better to wait to split information into small fragments until you need it, otherwise your database will be filled with junk that you end up never using.

Anyway, I am relieved to release the new version (it seemed never-ending) and looking forward to your feedback.

Piggydb V5.1 – Two-way Relationships

Piggydb V5.1 has been released almost a month after I announced via Twitter that it would be released soon.

This release adds Two-way Relationship Creation and Display.

The “Create a relationship” dialog has been updated to provide you with more options for creating a relationship: the direction of a relationship, one-way or two-way.

The display of fragment relationships has also been updated to support two-way relationships.

In the above display of the previous version, the relationships are displayed respectively as one-way while the new version provides a cleaner display for two-way relationships:

The user-related actions (“Change Password”, “Logout”) in the main menu have been moved to the pull-down menu at the login user name.

The tag cloud has been updated to exclude system tags that start with ‘#’ in order to focus on the concepts derived from user content.