Pensieve: An intelligent repository for the million things in your head

Re:Pensieve: An intelligent repository for the million thing... by renuka on Thursday October 05, 2017 @01:43PM (#15410993)

Thanks for the feedback. We're definitely thinking about tags - even beyond just making them searchable. A lot of people run into issues like forgetting what tag they used and having a user-feedback and a UserFeedback. Also issues when a project name changes and so tags need to be migrated. Do you have that problem? What do you mean by private version? Do you mean running it on-premise?

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Re:Pensieve: An intelligent repository for the million thing... by featherverse on Sunday October 15, 2017 @12:53AM (#15475952)

Yeah I would rather have a php based webapp that I can download and install on my own server, than any sort of SaaS thing. I hate SaaS, I think it's a kind of gamble, I am gambling that the people providing that service will be successful and operational until I quit using it.

But in the real world that isn't always the case.

However with a localized application that I can download, install, and run without any reliance on "the mothership", if the developers should go belly up (obviously nobody wants that), I can at least continue to use the software for a length of time while searching for a suitable replacement.

That's just one example. There's other things, such as data security, short term outages, and so on. In general SaaS has always been a terrible idea. It's good for corporations, but it sucks for users, and computing is about what's good for the users.

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