Piggydb V5.0 released

This release includes several bug fixes and minor improvements and is released as stable version.

The first step of V5.x development was to introduce Tag-Fragment, which was an attempt to upgrade the role of tags from a mere index to representation of important concepts in a database:

Piggydb V5.0-dev5 released

This release adds a cloud view to the Tag Palettes:

The cloud view also supports drag-and-drop tagging.

The Tag Palette on the sidebar has been updated to save the selection of the view type (tree/cloud/flat).

The releases of the V5.0-dev branch are experimental. So the default download remains version 4.23. If you want to try out V5.0-dev5, please download it from the links below:

• Standalone Package
• Browse All Packages

Piggydb V5.0-dev4 released

Super-quick release 😉

This release updates the fragment part of the tag-fragment page to have a full-fledged feature (to create sub-fragments and reorder them, expand the fragment tree, etc):

I think this screenshot represents what V5.0 is all about pretty well.

The releases of the V5.0-dev branch are experimental. So the default download remains version 4.23. If you want to try out V5.0-dev4, please download it from the links below:

• Standalone Package
• Browse All Packages

Piggydb V5.0-dev3 released

This release adds a feature to convert a tag into a tag-fragment.

The edit button is shown on the tag page if the tag has no content. Clicking the button converts the tag into a tag-fragment and opens an editor for editing its content:

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The Tag menu in the main menu was removed. Though the tag tree and tag cloud in the menu are not available in this version, they will be re-implemented to be more accessible in a later version.

The releases of the V5.0-dev branch are experimental. So the default download remains version 4.23. If you want to try out V5.0-dev3, please download it from the links below:

• Standalone Package
• Browse All Packages

Piggydb V5.0-dev2 released

Finally, the most important feature in V5.0 has arrived!

This release introduces Tag-Fragment, which allows you to use a knowledge fragment as a tag. It is simple to say, but it enhances the flexibility and expressiveness of Piggydb quite a lot.

In comparison to the impact on the internal model, the change of the user interface is trivial, just one magical button:

If you activate the “As a tag” toggle button when creating/updating a fragment, the fragment will be created/updated as a tag:

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You may notice the tag icon at the head of the tag-fragment title instead of a number link.

The tag-fragment page shows the information of both tag-side and fragment-side of a tag-fragment.

You can attach an “as a tag” attribute to a fragment anytime you feel necessary and remove it from a fragment just by deleting the tag:

I have been thinking about this update since last year, and finally released it as V5.0-dev2. Altougth it may seem like a trivial update, I expect that it will change the process of knowledge creation dramatically.

The releases of the V5.0-dev branch are experimental. So the default download remains version 4.23. If you want to try out V5.0-dev2, please download it from the links below:

• Standalone Package
• Browse All Packages

Piggydb V5.0-dev1 released

This release is a preparation for the development of the next generation Piggydb: the features planned in V5.0 were not implemented in this release, only prerequisite changes were made.

The title field in the fragment form has been moved to the top:

The Quick Edit feature has been updated to support editing a fragment title and a minor edit option as below:

The releases of the V5.0-dev branch are experimental as I wrote in the previous entry. So the default download remains version 4.23. If you want to try out V5.0-dev1, please download it from the links below:

• Standalone Package
• Browse All Packages

Piggydb V4.23 released

This release updates Tag Palette to have multiple views: “tree” and “flat”.

The left is old “tree” view, which allows you to find tags through the tag hierarchy, and the right is new “flat” view showing all the tags in a flat list. This feature was inspired by the feature request. Thanks to Jerome.

When tagging, out of sight means out of mind. Thus tags that are not at top level on the Tag Palette will tend to be underutilized.

The Quick Edit feature, which was added in the previous version 4.22, was extended so that it can be used via the edit button (pencil icon) on the fragment toolbar. Which means, you can quickly edit fragments that have contents hidden or no contents.

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The Fragments View slider was updated to have a new variation of fragments display as below:

Piggydb V4.22 released

This release adds Quick Edit for contents of knowledge fragments, which allows you to edit fragment contents on the spot.

Double-clicking on a content area turns it into an editor:

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Piggydb Documents updated

Description of Spacial Tags has been added to Piggydb Documents.

Piggydb is (intended to be) designed in such a way that it can be used without reading a manual. But since it is still an immature project, there are some features you may not know without instruction. Spacial Tags would be one of these features.

Spacial Tags – http://piggydb.jp/en/fragment.htm?id=52

Piggydb@Facebook

I have created a Facebook page for Piggydb.

Because I’m not an active user of Facebook, I don’t quite understand how it works yet. I just aggregated Piggydb-related feeds (including this blog) on the page. If you are a Facebook user, it would be helpful to follow almost all the activities of Piggydb.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Piggydb/128024087272905