Dear OpenKM community,
I am new to this forum but hope I can offer my share of contributing to the community. I have a few simple questions to ask but first let me give some context for it.
In my life there is a lot of information that has importance to me, coming from different sources. I have always tried to manage this (electronic) documentation by employing good file-naming practises and maintaining quite a rigid but logical folder structure on my hard disk. However, lately I have started to more and more hit the boundaries of what is possible/practical with just this way of working in terms of organization and remembering what and where something is located. So what I need is a more "advanced" way of organizing my electronic data, and in a sense run all this data a bit more like a business, and less on the level of just having some folders with funny holiday pictures.
So my questions are:
(1) Can I consider OpenKM to fulfill this wish? Which also means:
(2) Is it suitable for installation on just a laptop, practicly using the web interface as my personal "advanced" file manager?
(3) And if both yes, what will be the impact of integrating OpenKM on my personal computer on the way my files are currently organized? Let me clarify this. For instance, I use thunderbird to receive my emails, and when I get them they are stored "somewhere" locally, but not "easily" accessible (which is of course also not needed, thunderbird is in this sense also a KM software). (On ubuntu) I currently have as I said folders with files, where at least I know where they are and what they are named after. When employing OpenKM, will this have its impact on my files in a similar way as by my example thunderbird treats emails? Or will I still have control over where all the files go and where to find them? (For instance just in my /home/username/ folder.) What I mean is: Can I consider OpenKM more as a "layer" over my file structure, or would its implementation be more drastic?
(4) In extension to my previous question: As OpenKM works with uploading and downloading files that were created locally, will this mean that in the end if I would consider using OpenKM for personal knowledge management that every document exists twice in my file system?
I hope that I stated my questions as clearly as possible, and that answering them will not be very difficult. Also I hope that they will be to the benefit of people having the same problem, or maybe even see a nice opportunity to start a business in PKM: Personal knowledge management. A very big thanks in advance!
All the best,
Willem.
I am new to this forum but hope I can offer my share of contributing to the community. I have a few simple questions to ask but first let me give some context for it.
In my life there is a lot of information that has importance to me, coming from different sources. I have always tried to manage this (electronic) documentation by employing good file-naming practises and maintaining quite a rigid but logical folder structure on my hard disk. However, lately I have started to more and more hit the boundaries of what is possible/practical with just this way of working in terms of organization and remembering what and where something is located. So what I need is a more "advanced" way of organizing my electronic data, and in a sense run all this data a bit more like a business, and less on the level of just having some folders with funny holiday pictures.
So my questions are:
(1) Can I consider OpenKM to fulfill this wish? Which also means:
(2) Is it suitable for installation on just a laptop, practicly using the web interface as my personal "advanced" file manager?
(3) And if both yes, what will be the impact of integrating OpenKM on my personal computer on the way my files are currently organized? Let me clarify this. For instance, I use thunderbird to receive my emails, and when I get them they are stored "somewhere" locally, but not "easily" accessible (which is of course also not needed, thunderbird is in this sense also a KM software). (On ubuntu) I currently have as I said folders with files, where at least I know where they are and what they are named after. When employing OpenKM, will this have its impact on my files in a similar way as by my example thunderbird treats emails? Or will I still have control over where all the files go and where to find them? (For instance just in my /home/username/ folder.) What I mean is: Can I consider OpenKM more as a "layer" over my file structure, or would its implementation be more drastic?
(4) In extension to my previous question: As OpenKM works with uploading and downloading files that were created locally, will this mean that in the end if I would consider using OpenKM for personal knowledge management that every document exists twice in my file system?
I hope that I stated my questions as clearly as possible, and that answering them will not be very difficult. Also I hope that they will be to the benefit of people having the same problem, or maybe even see a nice opportunity to start a business in PKM: Personal knowledge management. A very big thanks in advance!
All the best,
Willem.