Simple Database Software For Mac

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Simple Database Software For Mac

Introduction

myBase is a unique free-form database software that allows entry of unstructured text, webpages, images, documents, emails and even arbitrary files without regard to length or format. All information is automatically compressed and stored in the tree structured outline form. Unlike traditional database programs, myBase accepts text input like a word processor, and provides better methods for capturing, editing, organizing, retrieving, searching and sharing information, that helps you build up knowledge base and increase personal productivity. No programming skills required.

Benefits & Advantages

With myBase and a set of inbuilt plugins and addon programs, you can;

  • Keep all your information in one place;
  • Get a large and growing collection of notes and documents organized with no programming skills required;
  • Create personal/corporate full-text searchable knowledge base or research databases containing text, graphics, webpages, documents, and/or even binary files;
  • Manage product/project/customer information in an intuitive way;
  • Take notes or write articles in the hierarchical structure;
  • Write books in the tree outline form much more efficiently than a standard word processor;
  • Capture webpages (including images/stylesheets) from Chrome/Firefox and directly save to current database;
  • Secure all your information in local databases with no contents transmitted over network;
  • Sync databases between Linux/Mac/Windows computers by using USB drives or 3rd-party cloud drives;
  • And more ..

System Requirements

To run myBase Desktop v7.x, you will need a PC running GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, or Windows XP+.

Screenshots

The user interface consists mainly of the intuitive outline view, attachments list view and contents area. It's simple and easy to use. War software free download. Here're a few screenshots of the user inteface running on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.

Downloads

To download the evaluation version, please click the below links appropriate for your computer's OS platform.

GNU/Linux (amd64) | Mac OS X | Windows XP+

Installation

For GNU/Linux, extract the downloaded package into your home directory, then it's almost done. Generally you can do it by running the commands in Terminal like this:

  • $ cd ~
  • $ tar -xjvf myBase-Desktop-Ver730-Linux.tar.bz2
  • $ cd ./myBase7
  • $ ./myBase.run &

For the convenience of starting myBase without typing the command in Terminal, you may want to create a launcher icon on your X11 desktop.

Note that with different distributions of GNU/Linux, you may need to manually install additional packages to resolve the shared library dependencies. To check the library dependencies for myBase 7.x, open a Terminal window, change to the program's directory, and run the command 'ldd myBase'.

For Mac OS X, open the downloaded .dmg package file, then drag the myBase icon and drop into the Applications folder, whereby you can double click on the program's icon to start it.

For Windows, run the downloaded setup program and follow the instructions to finish the software installation; You'll need to select the target directory and program group name during installation.

For detailed instructions on installation, please click here.

Uninstallation

For GNU/Linux, simply delete the program's directory.

For Mac OS X, trash the program icon from the system's Applications folder.

For Windows, select the [Uninstall myBase Desktop 7] menu item from the Start menu, and press the 'Yes' button to proceed.

Note that you may want first to create backups for your own .nyf database files before uninstalling the software.

Logical Structure of myBase .nyf Databases

The hierarchy chart below tries to illustrate how information is structured and saved within myBase. It allows unlimited level of info items nested within each sub trees.

+--myBase databases (*.nyf files)
+--Info items (hierarchical outline, tree structured)
+--Virtual items (referring to other real info items, namely Symbolic links)
+--Real items (containing actual data)
+--Default HTML content (*.html/qrich/txt/md)
+--Attachments (*.*)
+--Images (*.jpg/gif/bmp/png)
+--Documents (*.doc/xls/ppt/pdf/html/md)
+--Shortcuts (linking to external files)
+--Arbitrary files (*.exe/bin/dat/etc.)
+--Related items (linking with other items)
+--Applied labels (tags, categories)
+--Associated calendar date
+--Label items (tree structured, unlimited)
+--Label 1 (labelled info items..)
+--Label 2 (labelled info items..)
+--Label 3 (labelled info items..)
+--More ..
+--Custom icons (linking with info items)
+--Calendar (linking with info items)
+--Bookmarks (linking with info items)
+--Saved searches

Key Features

myBase Desktop is a feature-rich and easy-to-use knowledge management software for storing and managing a large number of unstructured information, such as webpages, images, documents, spreadsheets, presentations and any kind of arbitrary files with in the tree-structured outline form. Below is a simple list of key features that the current version provides.

  1. Intuitive and uncluttered user interface
  2. Organizing info items in the tree-structured outline form
  3. Categorizing info items with hierarchical labels/tags
  4. UNICODE (UTF-8) support for multilingual contents
  5. Fast load speed, fast access, with low RAM requirements
  6. Large file support ( > 2GB )
  7. Data compression ( powered by Zlib )
  8. Optimization for file size
  9. Password-protection
  10. Attachments support
  11. HTML/Rich Text formatting and editing
  12. Markdown support ( powered by Marked )
  13. MathJax support ( powered by MathJax ) for Markdown
  14. Source code syntax-highlighting ( powered by highlight.js )
  15. Recycle bin and revision history
  16. Undeletion of info items and attachments
  17. Revision history of HTML contents
  18. Item links, hyperlinks, symbolic links and file shortcuts
  19. Custom icons for individual info items
  20. Relative path vailables for local file links
  21. Auto-save, auto-index and auto-backup
  22. Print and preview
  23. Boolean search, Search by RegExp, Search in results, Find as you type
  24. HTML tree generator
  25. ePub/CHM e-book maker
  26. MS-Word outline generator
  27. Mindmap spider-like diagram generator
  28. Javascript APIs for extending functionality
  29. And more ..

Plugin Utilities

myBase Desktop provides tens of inbuilt plugin utilities some of which are listed below:

  1. Capture -> Import directory tree as hyperlinks or attachments
  2. Capture -> Import files as child items, Text to notes, else to attachemts, each file creates a child item
  3. Capture -> Import Mind Map items
  4. Capture -> Import OPML items
  5. Capture -> Import text file by a delimiter, each division creates a child item
  6. Capture -> Import journal template
  7. Capture -> Import info items from within another .nyf database
  8. Capture -> Import MS Word documents as child items (Windows only)
  9. Capture -> Import MS Outlook items (Windows only)
  10. Capture -> Import selected items from within MS Outlook (Windows only)
  11. Share -> Export info items and map as a disk directory tree
  12. Share -> Export all files to a specified directory
  13. Share -> Export text notes to a file with a text line delimiter
  14. Share -> Export data records to MS Excel
  15. Share -> Export text contents as HTML documents
  16. Share -> Export text contents with indentation
  17. Share -> Export text contents without formatting
  18. Share -> Export MS Word outline (Windows only)
  19. Share -> Export HTML Tree
  20. Share -> Export Spider-like Diagrams (mindmap)
  21. Share -> Export .mmap documents
  22. Share -> Export .opml documents
  23. Share -> Export .epub digital books
  24. Share -> Export CHM projects
  25. Share -> Export PDF document
  26. Share -> Export page as image
  27. Share -> Export branches to another .nyf database
  28. Edit -> Insert -> Insert table
  29. Edit -> Insert -> Insert picture from file
  30. Edit -> Insert -> Insert text from file
  31. Edit -> Insert -> Insert quick text
  32. Edit -> Insert -> Insert file/folder hyperlinks
  33. Edit -> Insert -> Insert code block (syntax highlighting for 100+ languages supported)
  34. Edit -> Insert -> Insert hyperlinks
  35. Edit -> Text utilties -> Sort selected text lines by alphabet
  36. Edit -> Text utilties -> Remove unwanted Returns/Spaces
  37. Edit -> Text utilties -> Make selection uppercase/lowercase
  38. Edit -> Text utilties -> Make selected text into table
  39. Edit -> Text utilties -> Edit selected text fields within a fillable form
  40. Edit -> Edit HTML source code
  41. Edit -> Revision history
  42. Search -> Items for today
  43. Search -> Items for today
  44. Search -> List all related items
  45. Search -> List attachments or shortcuts
  46. Search -> List recently modified entries
  47. Search -> Search local file system
  48. Search -> Search by custom icons
  49. Search -> Custom search scope
  50. Tools -> Calculate expression or js code
  51. Tools -> Word count
  52. Tools -> Compare local folders
  53. Tools -> Backup local folder
  54. Tools -> Detect text encoding
  55. Tools -> View file in hexadecimal
  56. Tools -> Compute file digest
  57. Tools -> Find duplicate files
  58. And more ..

How It Helps

If you have any of these kinds of problems with getting things done, myBase can help.

  • How can I organize a large and growing collection of notes, images and documents in my research work?
  • How can I manage random bits of personal information in my own way?
  • How can I save webpages including original URLs and get the collections well-organized with ease?
  • How can I create a personal or corporate full-text searchable knowledge base effortlessly?
  • How can I write a book in the tree outline form more efficiently than a standard word processor?
  • How can I publish information in the HTML tree form, or make ePub/CHM digital books with ease?
  • How can I build a full-text searchable database containing a large number of unstructured information/materials such as images, webpages, documents and even arbitrary files?

myBase, a 'swiss-army-knife' program, does these things well and can help a lot. With myBase, creating your own full-text searchable databases and getting organized has never been easier. No programming skills required. [ Download for trial ]

What You Get

Professional recording studio software, free download. With myBase and a modest set of plugins and addon programs, you get:

  1. Knowledge Base Software
  2. Research Database Software
  3. Notes Manager
  4. Project Management Tool
  5. Customer Data Management Tool
  6. Personal Information Organizer (PIM)
  7. Mind/Notes Manager
  8. Book Writing Tool
  9. To-Do List
  10. Address Book
  11. Diary Keeper
  12. Documentation Tool
  13. Presentation Tool
  14. Outlining Tool
  15. HTML Tree Maker
  16. Webpage Capturing Tool
  17. Photo Album
  18. URL Organizer
  19. File Organizer
  20. HTML/Rich Text Editor
  21. Markdown Editor
  22. CD-ROM/USB-Drive Offline Indexing Tool
  23. Mindmap Spider-like Diagram Maker
  24. ePub Digital Book Maker
  25. CHM Digital Book Maker (Windows only)
  26. MS-Word Outline Maker (Windows only)
  27. MS-Outlook Email Archiver (Windows only)
  28. and more ..

All these are in a footprint of about 50MB on your hard disk.

Plugin API & Development

myBase Desktop 7.x is built with the Qt Framework and the Structured Storage Library, exposes a set of plugin APIs in JavaScript and includes tens of plugins inbuilt as essential functionalities of the application. The plugin APIs reference is currently open to the public domain. For detailed info about plugin development, please go here.

Downloads

To download the evaluation version, please click the below links appropriate for your computer's OS platform.

GNU/Linux (amd64) | Mac OS X | Windows XP+





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