What's new

2011-07-27 --------------New version 2.70 and linux-beta 2.70----------------

Version 2.70 has the following new features, besides minor ones. Firstly, new relation-fields give more info about a record. This has simplified and improved the process of importing and exporting of data. Also it is now possible to email an export directly from knobjex. Furthermore, now metrics can be calculated to determine the numbers of parents and other info of a record. Lastly, some extra features have been added to the filter / query-screen. Additional info can be gotten from the Whatsnew.pdf.

Description Knobjex

Knobjex (short for Knowledge Objects) is an information-manager that uses a networked approach to store information. Any item (or 'knowlegde-object') can have multiple parents and multiple children. Allthough meant to be a knowledge-database, it can hold any type of data. Especially it has been adapted as a PIM-tool for task-management, a calendar, and procedure-management. As opposed to Outlook for example, where tasks and appointments are different things (disappointing i would say), everything is stored in the single table.

Technical

Technically, knobjex uses python, wxPython and the open-source database Sqlite thru pysqlite (formerly knobjex connected to an MS Access Database thru an odbc-link with pyodbc). Furthermore the database uses a single table for most of the data to avoid a complex and unmaintainable database (but a lot of queries of course).

Background

The following link provides some background-info on Sqlite and the deprecated access-database: http://www.testground.net/E_KnobjexPython.htm

Credits

This project was started by Joris Bollen.