buzz.opml

What is it?

A Cross Platform Outline System for Encyclopedic Notes

What if you wanted to carry all your notes, textbooks, pictures and references with you at all times?
And edit them anywhere and link them together so that there was no redundancy?
And include pictures, video, or any file or your computer?
And you could publish your notes as a web site with the same functionality?
If you've asked yourself these questions, Buzz may be for you.
I use Buzz to carry all of my orthopedic textbooks, notes, images and references.
Buzz runs on Mac OS X, Windows, Linux, iPaq and Palm OS via Plucker

An XML Editor/Creator

Buzz is a non validating XML editor.
In addition it can create a schema for a set of XML files that can be used
to generate new documents using the XML from that set, sometimes called "Schema by Example"

A Translator

Buzz was designed to import and export any of it's formats.
XLINK - List of Formats

ScreenShots

OS X

Linux

Windows

iPaq - Familiar

iPaq - Qtopia

Palm OS 5 - Plucker

Download

Full Edition of Buzz
Buzzlite for pygtk
Buzzlite for pyqt
Buzzlite in C for gtk
Buzzlite in C for gtk2
ARM Binary Buzzlite for gtk

Install

1 - Install python and wxPython

http://www.python.org
http://www.wxpython.org

2 - Install libxml2 and python wrappers

Linux and OS X

In the latest version of most Linux distributions and OS X only the python wrappers for libxml2 need to be installed
http://xmlsoft.org/
http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/python.html

Windows

http://users.skynet.be/sbi/libxml-python/

3 - Decompress Archive and start program buzz.py

Linux or OS X

sudo tar xzvf buzz.tgz in /usr/share
Linux

python buzz.py

OS X

copy the contents of the smallbmp subdirectory into the buzz directory
pythonw buzz.py
or click on buzz.py

Windows

Uncompress buzz.tgz with Powerarchiver to c:\buzz
Double click on buzz.py

User Guide

Quickstart UserGuide

The keys to editting OPML or XML in buzz are the keys that insert, move, and edit elements
Inserting:

The Right Mouse button: opens a menu
F5: inserts a new element at the level above
o,F6: inserts a new element at the current level
c,F7: inserts a new element at the level below
Ctrl:P: inserts data from other programs that you copy into the tree
F10: Opens a free text editting window

Moving:

Home: moves the current item up the list of elements in the tree
End: moves the current item down
Tab: indents the item
Shift-Tab or backspace: outdents the item
Ctrl-C: Copies an element or tree into a list of previously copied or cut elements
Ctrl-X: Removes an element or tree in the the list of previous copies
Ctrl-V: Inserts
Insert: Inserts the most recent element from the list of previous copies and makes

the next oldest item the most current

Editting:

return,e,a,i: edits current element
To undo an edit of an element while editting, hit the escape key

Encyclopedic Notes

Linking

Object Linking: Link to an external object via the Hosts MIME system

Ctrl-O: Asks for reference
Uses: MS Word, StarOffice, Images, Sounds,Movies

X Linking: Link to a specific target in an OPML or XML file

Shift B: Generate a Unique Id (BuzzID) to Target
Shift X: Generate an X Path to you current location

If your current location has a BuzzID it will be used. Otherwise an offset XPATH is generated

Shift V: Paste an X Link
Shift G: Goto X Link Location

Pubmed Link