Flexible text-based commands to add, update and search records, which provides powerful ways to manage information.
Saved searches to save searches for later use.
Ability to display records on calendars and Kanban boards.
Full-text search of all record fields.
Simple file system integration so to greatly reduce the need to organize files manually.
Technical details
Nibras is developed in Grails framework 3.3.10, a dynamic framework on top of the Java platform.
Grails applications run on any platform that can run Java 8 and later, so practically all platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac.
For production use, Nibras uses MySQL 5+ for its database, and the file system to store the files of the records. To testing and demonstration, it can run with h2 database, with zero extra configuration.
Apache Tomcat 8+ is the recommended application server to run it for production use.
The bundled distribution comes with Tomcat 8 and runs with a h2 database.
History
Version 1 was in 2009 as a small web application to manage code snippets (notes), as part of project-based study of web development. It was initially based on Grails 1.1.
From versions 2 to 14, development continued with frequent expansions in application scope and features. Many features were abandoned or redesigned.
Version 6.5 was the first stable version to be use daily and reliably. Version 8 was the first public release after a major and comprehensive code cleaning and interface tweaking.
Version 14.9 was the second public release, and it was reset to 1.0.0.
