mdduff asked:
I am doing research and need the easiest way to create a searchable database for the information. It includes mainly passages from articles/books. This dates me somewhat, but there used to be a program called Hypercard that enabled the user to make a set of “cards” each with a passage or set of info that could also be searched by keyword, etc… Is there an easy way to do this now without having to buy an expensive software package? Ideally, each article could also have bibliography info attached for documentation purposes in the future.
I am doing research and need the easiest way to create a searchable database for the information. It includes mainly passages from articles/books. This dates me somewhat, but there used to be a program called Hypercard that enabled the user to make a set of “cards” each with a passage or set of info that could also be searched by keyword, etc… Is there an easy way to do this now without having to buy an expensive software package? Ideally, each article could also have bibliography info attached for documentation purposes in the future.
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A program to do what you are wanting would not be to difficult. You could use a visual development language to design a form and have the form tie into a dictionary collection to add or search. If that is not an option for you then you could consider access if you have it, or even excel.
To use the develop your own program method here are the high level steps.
Drag a textbox and a multiline textbox or richtextbox to the form. Each language may call these different things.
Drag 4 buttons, save, load, search, add.
save button needs to save the collection to a file, load will load it from a file.
Search will take what is entered in the textbox and pull up the note in the multiline control. Add will take what is in the multiline control and add the textbox as a key and the multiline control as the value to the collection. There is a lot more you could do to make it look nice and use better practices like menu’s and stuff, but this would do what you are requiring in a simple manner.