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Table of Contents [Hide/Show] What is Sider? How it works What it isn't

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What is Sider?

Sider is an application to assist with information management. It's suitable for people limited by the current tools on the market. Sider offers a flexible environment to quickly create solutions for different types of data: notes, journals, collections (of books, games, etc.), contacts, projects and tasks, business documents, and so on. To make it easier to work with and customize Sider it's
every aspect can be extended: new data structures, logic to handle them, views to show documents, plug-ins with data sources, import/export support, etc.

The platform itself is oriented towards developers. Users interacts with it through extensions built on top of it. Our main goal is to make it as easy as possible to create those extensions, through built-in support for separation of concern, high flexibility, code reuse, use of widely accepted and known technologies and so on.

Our current focus is Sider core completion to support essential features and adding support to manage personal information (notes, contacts, projects and their tasks, etc.)

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How it works

Sider uses open, standard ways to describe information structure (with XML) and show it (with HTML and other popular web technologies). Anybody with some knowledge about web programming can change it or add new features to support new types of information. In addition those changes can be shared with other people.

Sider is the base for managing information. It takes care of common tasks, such as loading and saving documents, finding the right tools to show or edit them, and allows developers to focus on what they are trying to solve.

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What it isn't

Sider isn’t a solution to all information problems. We are not trying to create fit-every-scenario tool, but use a general approach to allow new tools to be developed for different situations.

As a number of extensions on top of it grow it will be able to address more and more issues out of the box. A problem needs to be solved only once and then that solution can be shared with all other users.