What is Piggydb?
Piggydb is an open-source personal knowledge management and note-taking application that allows users to capture, organize and browse information using a system modeled after a piggy bank. Users can create short notes, upload files, bookmark web links, and tag everything for easy search and retrieval later.
At its core, Piggydb functions like a personal wiki or database that you can use to store bits and pieces of information - ideas, notes, documents, links, excerpts, etc. It allows you to make quick notes and build connections between them by using tags and links. This gives you a visual database of all your information that lets you browse your knowledge easily.
Some key features of Piggydb include:
- Quick note capturing - easily create short wiki-style notes to capture ideas, thoughts, things to follow up on
- File attachments - upload documents, PDFs, images that relate to your notes
- Auto-generated links - Piggydb can suggest links between notes based on similar tags and content
- Tagging - add tags to notes for better organization and discovery
- Full-text search - search all your notes and file attachments
- Visual browsing - navigate your personal knowledge database and see connections between notes visually
If you have trouble organizing all the random bits of information you come across daily, Piggydb can function like an external brain to help you sort through it all. Its strengths are capturing those small pieces of data, linking ideas together, and making all your information easily searchable and browsable.
ToDoList, DEVONthink, CherryTree, Milanote, Notesnook, Trilium Notes, UpNote, Hypernotes, CintaNotes, wikidPad, Cryptee, Zoho Notebook, ShoveBox, Springnote are some alternatives to Piggydb.