Mybase - A Unique Freeform Database Software

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.

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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/macOS/Windows computers by using a USB drive or a 3rd-party cloud drive;
• And more ...

System Requirements

To run Mybase Desktop 8.x, you will need a PC running GNU/Linux (amd64), macOS 10.14+, or Windows 7+ (x64).

Downloads

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

GNU/Linux (amd64) | macOS 10.14+ | Windows 7+ (x64)

Installation

For GNU/Linux, extract the downloaded package into your home directory by running a few commands in Terminal like this:

$ cd ~

$ tar xJf Mybase-Desktop-Ver820b7-Linux-amd64.tar.xz

$ cd ./Mybase8

$ ./Mybase.run &

To add a desktop entry to the Launch/Start menu for launching the program without having to type commands, try running the inbuilt command:

$ cd ~/Mybase8

$ sudo ./install.sh

Note that with different distributions of GNU/Linux, additional Libraries may be required to install to resolve the shared library dependency.

For macOS, open the downloaded .dmg package file, then drag the Mybase icon and drop into the system Applications folder, whereby you can Control-Click on the program's icon and then confirm to launch it.

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

For detailed instructions on the software installation, please go here.

Uninstallation

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

For macOS, trash the program icon from the system's Applications folder.

For Windows, select the [Uninstall Mybase Desktop 8] menu item from the Start menu, and press the "Yes" button to proceed.

Note that you may need 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.

File system (on hard disk)

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+--Mybase databases (*.nyf files)

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+--Info items (hierarchical outline, tree structured)

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+--Virtual items (referring to other real info items, namely Symbolic links)

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+--Real items (containing actual data)

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+--Default HTML content (*.html/qrich/txt/md)

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+--Attachments (*.*)

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+--Images (*.jpg/gif/bmp/png)

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+--Documents (*.doc/xls/ppt/pdf/html/md)

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+--Shortcuts (linking to external files)

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+--Arbitrary files (*.exe/bin/dat/etc.)

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+--Related items (linking with other items)

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+--Threaded items (linking by [[ keywords ]])

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+--Applied labels (tags, categories)

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+--Associated calendar date

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+--Label items (tree structured, unlimited)

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+--Label 1 (labelled info items...)

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+--Label 2 (labelled info items...)

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+--Label 3 (labelled info items...)

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+--More ...

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+--Custom icons (linking with info items)

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+--Calendar (linking with info items)

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+--Bookmarks (linking with info items)

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+--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. Katex support ( powered by Katex ) for Markdown
15. Source code syntax-highlighting ( powered by highlight.js )
16. Recycle bin and revision history
17. Undeletion of info items and attachments
18. Revision history of HTML contents
19. Webpage/snippets capturing and saving
20. Item links, hyperlinks, symbolic links and file shortcuts
21. Custom icons for individual info items
22. Relative path vailables for local file links
23. Auto-save, auto-index and auto-backup
24. Print and preview
25. Boolean search, Search by RegExp, Search in results, Find as you type
26. HTML tree generator
27. ePub/CHM e-book maker
28. MS-Word outline generator
29. Mindmap spider-like diagram generator
30. Importing data from a variety of sources
31. Exporting data in a variety of file formats
32. Javascript APIs for extending functionality
33. 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 .zip archives
6. Capture -> Import text file by a delimiter, each division creates a child item
7. Capture -> Import journal template
8. Capture -> Import info items from within another .nyf database
9. Capture -> Import MS Word documents as child items (Windows only)
10. Capture -> Import MS Outlook items (Windows only)
11. Capture -> Import selected items from within MS Outlook (Windows only)
12. Share -> Export info items and map as a disk directory tree
13. Share -> Export all files to a specified directory
14. Share -> Export text notes to a file with a text line delimiter
15. Share -> Export data records to MS Excel
16. Share -> Export text contents as HTML documents
17. Share -> Export text contents with indentation
18. Share -> Export text contents without formatting
19. Share -> Export MS Word outline (Windows only)
20. Share -> Export HTML Tree
21. Share -> Export Spider-like Diagrams (mindmap)
22. Share -> Export .mmap documents
23. Share -> Export .opml documents
24. Share -> Export .epub digital books
25. Share -> Export CHM projects
26. Share -> Export PDF document
27. Share -> Export page as image
28. Share -> Export .zip archive
29. Share -> Export branches to another .nyf database
30. Edit -> Insert -> Insert table
31. Edit -> Insert -> Insert picture from file
32. Edit -> Insert -> Insert text from file
33. Edit -> Insert -> Insert quick text
34. Edit -> Insert -> Insert file/folder hyperlinks
35. Edit -> Insert -> Insert code block (syntax highlighting for 100+ languages supported)
36. Edit -> Insert -> Insert hyperlinks
37. Edit -> Text utilties -> Sort selected text lines by alphabet
38. Edit -> Text utilties -> Remove unwanted Returns/Spaces
39. Edit -> Text utilties -> Make selection uppercase/lowercase
40. Edit -> Text utilties -> Make selected text into table
41. Edit -> Text utilties -> Edit selected text fields within a fillable form
42. Edit -> Edit HTML source code
43. Edit -> Revision history
44. Search -> Items for today
45. Search -> Items for today
46. Search -> List all related items
47. Search -> List attachments or shortcuts
48. Search -> List recently modified entries
49. Search -> Search local file system
50. Search -> Search by custom icons
51. Search -> Custom search scope
52. Tools -> Calculate expression or js code
53. Tools -> Word count
54. Tools -> Compare local folders
55. Tools -> Backup local folder
56. Tools -> Detect text encoding
57. Tools -> View file in hexadecimal
58. Tools -> Compute file digest
59. Tools -> Find duplicate files
60. Tools -> Number base converter
61. 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

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 ...

Plugin Development & API Reference

Mybase Desktop 8.x was built with the Qt5 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 API 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 applicable to your computer's OS platform.

GNU/Linux (amd64) | macOS 10.14+ | Windows 7+ (x64)

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