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Why Index Your Notes with Keywords (Part 2)
Software that stores freeform text information commonly uses three ways to structure data:
- Searching with Straight Text Strings
- Categorizing in Hierarchical Trees
- Indexing with User-specified Keywords
Why Index Your Notes with Keywords (Part 1)
Personal Knowbase uses a system where users specify keywords to index their notes. When you create a new text note in the software, you tag the note with one or more keywords (or key-phrases) which will later provide a fast way to locate that note.
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I first heard the term "bitsmith" in college in the early 1980's. It was used to describe a particularly skilled programmer — one to whom creating software was an art, to whom quality was important, and who tried to find the most elegant solution to any programming problem. A bitsmith was a skilled craftsman whose medium was bits.
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