A tool that lets you download, organize and share documents
Knorg (short for Knowledge Organizer) is a tool that lets you download, organize and share documents regardless of their format and structure.
Finding information on the Web is a challenge by itself, not to mention storing and retrieving them later on. There are many tools that will help you fight the information overload, but most of them are solving only a single aspect of this multi-dimensional problem.
For example, a browser favorites (bookmarks) tool will only save the page URL/title. Every larger bookmark collection tends to become quite unmanageable as it grows. Even larger problem lies in the fact that the particular document or a site can change or become inactive until your next visit. A collection of "dead" or inaccurate links will not really help you do anything.
Several "offline browsers" claim that they can bring solution to this problem by saving online content for a later review - whenever you want and need it. Again, this solves only one aspect of the bigger problem: your disks can quickly become cluttered with the downloaded content. The structure of a typical HTML document makes the situation even worse - HTML documents are not "self-contained", and they can contain links to many external resources (not only hyperlinks, but also images, stylesheet files, scripts and similar files that are essential for the proper look of the downloaded file). Some users revert to various desktop search engines that can indeed help you find the information more quickly, but still cannot help you categorize and share your document collections. Full text search is indeed a valuable feature in every knowledge management toolbox, and with addition of proper categorization and tagging schemes it can save you hours and help you become much more productive.
Once activated, Knog sits in the system tray and waits for user actions.
There are multiple ways to store a document to Knorg's archive. You can either instruct it to listed to the system's clipboard: whenever it detects an URL or a file (or several files) are being copied, it will copy the target document(s) and move them to the appropriate categories.
You can also drag a file or an URL from the browser to the "drop form" that pops-up from the tray - you can decide whether to store it to the explicit category or leave the program to automatically assign it to the target category.
It is really easy to define rules that are used to store files to appropriate categories. It is also possible to let the system calculate the document similarity based on the existing documents and perform the whole process automatically... just like magic.
But that's only the beginning: Knorg features a rich user interface that will be very familiar to most of the users (more on that in the User interface section). It preserves the integrity of downloaded HTML files (all files are stored in a single file archive). It allows you to perform full text searches on both your local machine and all machines in your P2P community. It can import and download documents from links in your browser favorites/bookmarks collection, allowing you to instantly initialize and fill a rich knowledge base. It allows you to annotate and assign tags to your documents, creating an alternative navigational system (besides category folders and full text search)... This list could go on and on - each feature is described in detail in the user manual.
Knorg (short for KNowledge ORGanizer) is a stand alone knowledge management / document management tool that lets you to:
* collect, manage and organize any type of on-line or off-line content (HTML, PDF, DOC, RTF, and any other document type with a properly installed IFilter)
* one-click download and save of all documents you find while surfing
* browse the saved documents offline
* categorize and organize your documents in a way you want. All files are placed into appropriate categories, with or without user involvement
* define rules for automatic document categorization
* perform fully automated "auto-categorization" based on the similarity of documents already stored in your categories
* attach tags and descriptions to your stored documents
* perform powerful full-text searches
* listen to the system clipboard and extract relevant content (URLs and files)
* share your knowledge and organize ad-hoc P2P document sharing networks to search for information stored on your peer's machines
* import and manage bookmarks from virtually any browser
* export links stored inside your categories to del.icio.us