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…backend. I used it in some of my projects (e.g. https://github.com/rochus-keller/udb used e.g. in https://github.com/rochus-keller/crossline/ ). Depending on read/write frequency, lmdb or tidesdb might be a better fit.

comment by Rochus · 2026-05-28 · in The Green Side of the Lua

The CrossLine outliner ( https://github.com/rochus-keller/crossline/ ) has transclusion and backlinks as well. Very useful concept indeed.

comment by Rochus · 2025-09-21 · in Review: Project Xanadu – The Internet That Might Have Been

…as a 16 bit app in 1993 and I used the 32 bit version until about 2009 (and then implemented my own https://github.com/rochus-keller/crossline/ which I still use daily).

comment by Rochus · 2025-09-19 · in Stone Tools: Re-Examining Retro Productivity Software

I have been using CrossLine ( https://github.com/rochus-keller/crossline/ ) for the last 16 years for this purpose; before I used Netmanage Ecco Pro ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecco_Pro ). Of course there is a cursor for writing.

comment by Rochus · 2025-04-13 · in Ask HN: What do you use to write and take notes? Is there a cursor for writing?

…them directly into an outline on the computer. Before I had tools like Ecco or my own CrossLine ( https://github.com/rochus-keller/crossline/ ), I also produced a lot of notes on paper. After a few years of working with these tools, I got…

comment by Rochus · 2025-01-03 · in Building a Knowledge System That Enhances Rather Than Replaces Thought

It's https://github.com/rochus-keller/crossline/ , a tool which I implemented and used for many years in my projects. It's inspired by Netmanage Ecco and implements features which can also be found in Ted Nelson's Xanadu or in Ivar…

comment by Rochus · 2024-12-09 · in The Starlark Programming Language

Have a look at https://github.com/rochus-keller/crossline/ . I use it for the mentioned purpose (besides Cycling/GPX) since more than a decade. Originally I used Netmanage Ecco, which was discontinued and didn't support all features I…

comment by Rochus · 2024-10-02 · in Ask HN: Hackable Personal Database?

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CrossLine – outliner with sophisticated cross-link capabilities like Ecco Pro

story by karencarits · 2024-05-25 · 1 comment

…Ecco Pro reached v1.0 status after 14 years, built on Qt with binaries available for Win/Linux/Mac, https://github.com/rochus-keller/CrossLine CrossLine is an outliner with sophisticated cross-link capabilities in the tradition of the…

comment by walterbell · 2024-05-25 · in Agenda: a personal information manager (1990) [pdf]

Yes, quite a lot (but eventually shared with other people); examples: - https://github.com/rochus-keller/CrossLine - https://github.com/rochus-keller/FlowLine2 - https://github.com/rochus-keller/WorkTree - https://github.com/DoorScope The…

comment by Rochus · 2024-05-05 · in Ask HN: Have you coded any productivity software just for yourself?

…I built my own tool, which inherited a lot from Ecco, but also added things I missed (see https://github.com/rochus-keller/CrossLine ).

comment by Rochus · 2024-01-01 · in A History of Outliners

…wrote a tool myself many years ago which helped me to keep track of all my projects since then: https://github.com/rochus-keller/crossline/

comment by Rochus · 2023-08-25 · in Ask HN: What tooling do you use for organizing/offloading your thoughts?

This was a visionary undertaking. I implemented transclusion in CrossLine and it's very useful (see https://github.com/rochus-keller/CrossLine ).

comment by Rochus · 2023-06-09 · in Project Xanadu

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Show HN: CrossLine – the desktop Outliner with cross-links and transclusion

story by Rochus · 2023-05-06 · 0 comments

This concept is called "outliner", see e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecco_Pro or https://github.com/rochus-keller/crossline/ .

comment by Rochus · 2023-02-17 · in TodoTree: The nested todo and note taking app for Android (v1.4)

…Jacobson's Objectory tool and eventually also implemented it in my CrossLine and other tools (see https://github.com/rochus-keller/CrossLine , https://github.com/rochus-keller/FlowLine2/ , etc.).

comment by Rochus · 2022-08-19 · in Ted Nelson on What Modern Programmers Can Learn from the Past (2018)

…I usually just write down everything the stakeholders are telling including the questions; I use https://github.com/rochus-keller/CrossLine which lets me structure the text on the fly; after the session I do different summaries which…

comment by Rochus · 2022-07-27 · in Ask HN: What's your note-taking methodology?

…a no-sql database using the sqlite backend for https://github.com/rochus-keller/DoorScope and https://github.com/rochus-keller/CrossLine 15 years ago there was little literature about it (actually also the referenced article is rather…

comment by Rochus · 2022-07-27 · in SQLite Internals: Pages and B-trees

…(possibly) cross-referenced cards, since an outliner provides a priori context. In CrossLine (see https://github.com/rochus-keller/CrossLine ), I also built in transclusion, which allows you to integrate items into different contexts…

comment by Rochus · 2022-05-24 · in Niklas Luhmann was OK with losing notes

…a decade in daily use in large, complex projects. A few years ago I released it as open source: https://github.com/rochus-keller/crossline

comment by Rochus · 2022-02-28 · in I use Org Mode for personal logging/journalling

…and do requirements management and status accounting with this tool. Here is the link: https://github.com/rochus-keller/CrossLine/

comment by Rochus · 2021-09-14 · in Ask HN: How do you take notes throughout your work day?

…my own tool (not for the first time) ten years ago which I'm successfully using since then ( https://github.com/rochus-keller/crossline/ ). It looks certainly old fashioned to younger people, but I'm very efficient with it because I can…

comment by Rochus · 2021-06-29 · in Incremental note-taking

…on the SQLite backend: https://github.com/rochus-keller/Udb . I use it in many of my apps, e.g. https://github.com/rochus-keller/CrossLine . It's lean and fast, and supports objects, indices, hierarchical "globals" like ANSI-M and…

comment by Rochus · 2021-06-13 · in Ask HN: What is the SQLite of nosql databases?

…Objectory (so the transcluding links between items); here is the link in case you're interested: https://github.com/rochus-keller/CrossLine .

comment by Rochus · 2021-04-27 · in Why UML “Really” Died

Well, org-mode obviously has very powerful features; but I am rather avoiding Emacs and prefer my https://github.com/rochus-keller/CrossLine for note taking and information management; I can already generate navigable HTML pages for…

comment by Rochus · 2021-03-10 · in Emacs org-mode examples and cookbook (2017)

…Objectory software engineering tool. It's also available in the CrossLine information manager (see https://github.com/rochus-keller/CrossLine ).

comment by Rochus · 2021-02-21 · in Project Xanadu

CrossLine uses the Sqlite backend directly with a binary Json like protocol for this purpose, see https://github.com/rochus-keller/crossline/ and https://github.com/rochus-keller/udb .

comment by Rochus · 2020-11-27 · in SQLite as a Document Database

…and discuss things at the same time. After many years of experiments, I wrote a software myself ( https://github.com/rochus-keller/crossline ) that supports taking comprehensive notes in real time. I was in the management of defence…

comment by Rochus · 2020-09-21 · in How to take meeting notes

…underrated tools. But after a detailed analysis of Org Mode (and some other tools) I implemented https://github.com/rochus-keller/CrossLine which I'm using every day since ten years.

comment by Rochus · 2020-08-11 · in Videos for learning Org Mode

Outliners are definitely missing, such as https://github.com/rochus-keller/crossline/ . You can structure your thoughts while you type, even while you're talking to other people. And you can make cross-references and make appear thoughts…

comment by Rochus · 2020-05-28 · in Tools for Better Thinking

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CrossLine: An outliner with sophisticated cross-link capabilities, a la Ecco Pro

story by throwaway3157 · 2020-03-03 · 0 comments

…most convinced of the outliner concept, and eventually I have even written my own tool for it (see https://github.com/rochus-keller/CrossLine/ ). A good outliner allows you to structure the text while you type without taking your hands off…

comment by Rochus · 2020-03-03 · in Ask HN: How to Take Good Notes?