- 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?
- What if you could edit them anywhere and link them together so that there was no redundancy?
- What if some things were simpler to understand as a text, some as pictures, some as a spreadsheet?
- What if you wanted to 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
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- 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"
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- OS X
- Linux
- Windows
- iPaq - Familiar
- iPaq - Qtopia
- Palm OS 5 - Plucker
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- Install
- New! Simplified Installation
- 1 - Install python and wxPython
- 2 - Install libxml2 and python wrappers
- 3 - Decompress Archive and start program buzz.py
- Linux or OS X
- sudo tar xzvf buzz.tgz in /usr/share
- Linux
- OS X
- pythonw buzz.py
- or click on buzz.py
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- Uncompress buzz.tgz with Powerarchiver to c:\buzz
- Double click on buzz.py
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- 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
- return: creates a node at the next line
- 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
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- 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
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- e,a,i: edits current element
- To undo an edit of an element while editting, hit the escape key
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- 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
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- 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
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- Shift G: Goto X Link Location
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- Shift P: Insert PMID. Link directly to PubMed XML
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- Ctrl-U: Link to an arbitrary URL
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- Space or Double Click: Activate a link
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- Ctrl-F: Search in this File
- F3: Search below current Item
- XSearch: Starting from the Home File search for string
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- Render Directory: Renders all OPML files as HTML with X Links preserved
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- The toolbar includes a set of icons for the following actions:
- navigation
- Back in history ring
- Forward in history
- History
- Home File
- Recent Files
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- Open File
- New File
- New File From Schema
- Save File
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- searching, editting, pasting, copying, deleting
- Search from top of file
- repeat
- Paste External Clipboard
- Enter Free Form Text
- Insert Image
- Copy Node
- Paste Node
- Delete Node
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- Add Attribute
- Add CData
- Insert Xlink from Favorites
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- Join Nodes
- Toggle x layers deep
- Sort children
- Xsearch from Home file
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