AskSam (www.asksam.com) will do many, but not all, of the things you are
looking for.
Since AskSam is a free form database that indexes everything, you will need
to create a template to help you pin down what you mean by topic/category.
or, you could just throw everything you have into asksam and not worry about
it; then the entire contents of all of your documents will be indexed.
this may not help you with your multi-level needs, but if you only need the
levels to facilitate search, then asksam will search whatever you want.
dono
"leo_ghen" wrote:
[Quoted Text] > I am looking for an off the shelf software tool that allows 1) to store
> snippets of text, 2) manually index them by topic (category), 3) easily add a
> category or subcategory, 4) to regenerate a multilevel hierarchy categories
> (as MS Word does), 5) do fast search both of the hierarchy of topics and the
> full content, and 6) facility to move contents from MS Word doc to this new
> tool. If there is more that one such tool I'd like to know about several of
> them.
>
> Besides references to software products I would appreciate any references
> about research on this kind of tools. Some people call them “snippet
> manager", other relevant terms are “content managementâ€, "personal
> knowledgeâ€, “ontology engineeringâ€.
>
> So far I have been using MS Word and its table of contents feature. But of
> cause Word is not designed for my task. Besides as my file kept growing it
> exceeded Word capabilities – I cannot build a table of contents more than 2
> levels deep. When I try to build 3 or 4 levels table I get "Error! No table
> of contents entries found".
>
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