Storing APIs and Documentation (Programming)

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Hi,

is anyone using DTP to store APIs (e.g. from programming languages like java, c++, ruby, frameworks, …) and/or programming documentation?

if so, how would one get started? i created a new database for documentation and added the entire api/documentation of sqlite (database i was working with at the time) to it. didn’t work. search never revealed what i wanted and was actually worse than sqlite’s own site search.

also, how do you keep it up to date?

thanks

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How did you exactly add the information? E.g. one huge document or many small ones? And what kind of format did you use, e.g. PDF or HTML?

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i added many small html files.

for example, this is one page i added: sqlite.org/lockingv3.html

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Static elements (e.g. footers, headers, navigation etc.) might bloat the search index and therefore cause poor results. It will probably be much easier to create a focused, relevant and automatically updated search index using DEVONsphere Server.

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i am not sure what you are saying here. does devonsphere server have better AI than DT?

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It’s basically the same but it will be possible to optimize/focus the search index of DEVONsphere Server by stripping unnecessary stuff (e.g. like footers, headers, navigation) whereas DEVONthink is always indexing everything.

That’s also the reason why See Also/Classify results for web archives or web PDFs are often worse than the results for taken plain/rich notes which contain only the interesting article/text without any additional bloat.

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somewhat related. how good are you at filtering out the fluff? if i import web sites with instapaper or readability, can you actually at least remove the small header/footer from those two (or similar services)?

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Well, probably we could but these small footers/headers shouldn’t cause any major bloat or search issues.

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