PolishedCode

I am developing an application called Topics. It is a topic map-based tool to manage and organize unstructured data; basically anything that doesn’t fit into a tidy database, a.k.a. tables. The application enables the user to create so-called topics and link them in every way imaginable. Once linked, you can navigate the resulting topic map in a very straight-forward manner. Furthermore, you can attach resources to your topics. These resources could include images and PDF-files. The application will be a desktop application, implemented in Adobe AIR.

Implementing the application as a Rich Internet Application (RIA) with Adobe AIR, I am hoping to provide a vastly improved user experience. Specifically, the availability of powerful graph visualization libraries that allow you to visually layout the relationships between topics contribute to making the whole topic map experience very intuitive and appealing.

Very shortly, the accompanying web site (PolishedCode.com) will be up and running, in the meantime, if you are interested, you can also follow my progress (or lack of progress) at polishedcode on Twitter.

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