From: Rick Caldwell Date: 2004-05-01T09:08:59+09:00 Subject: Re: [ANN] Tycho - A PIM under development I like the user interface, looks like it would be really nice to use. Features I would like to see: I would like to add fuzzy searches tothe list as I and I'm sure others can't spell. Also search for words near each other and search by word list - as you start typing a word the words in the index that have those letters appear in a list - for example if you type a, all the indexed words starting with a are in the list. As you add letters the list becomes smaller leading to the word you are looking for similar to the index search option in Windows. Search results ranked by different options - most hits, hits in certain fields, most matching words, newest documents, oldest documents and probably others I haven't thought of. Import feature that knows different formats. For example I would like to index my email - it should know that there are To:, From:, Subject: lines etc in the mail and store the messages so they can be searched by the automatically created indexes from the email template. Same with pdf files, word docs etc. Also for the import option a date qualifier so for example you can do a import since a date for example when adding your email to the database - you would like to add only new messages. The same for indexing a web page or a set of notes. Or use the stored time to see if the document has been updated since the last import. If you have edited the database version and it has changed from where you are importing from you might need to resolve how you are going to handle the dual update - replace, add 2nd copy, merge or something like a source code system like cvs where you have multiple changes to merge. For an example of these type things you might look at the AskSam free form database that does sort of what you are doing but without the nice GUI interface ( http://www.asksam.com ). It only runs on Windows so I'm looking for a linux alternative. Another set of programs to look at for ideas might be agrep (approximate grep) and the assocated indexing search program glimpse which also can be used for searching web pages ( http://webglimpse.net ). Unfortunately they now charge for glimpse ( though for personal use it is cheap/free ), but even for commercial use it is low priced. With glimpse you can search for words and specify how many letters can be wrong (mis-spelled), boolean searches, word nearness etc. Rick -- Have you noticed that a "slight tax increase" costs us at least two hundred dollars a year, but a "substantial tax cut" saves us maybe thirty cents? rickc@dallas.oilfield.slb.com