Welcome to the Ceryle Wiki!

This is the wiki for the Ceryle project. Ceryle is a free tool to help you get organized. If you use a lot of post it notes, are a writer, journalist, researcher, student, or anyone compiling a lot of information for a project, Ceryle is designed to assist you in keeping track of things. [more...]

The wiki is new and there's still a lot to do. We're transferring content over to the wiki originally written for Ceryle's internal Help, as web pages or for other purposes, as well as writing new content for features that have yet to be documented. (If you're willing to help with the documentation we're happy to provide you a prerelease version of Ceryle.)

Please note that to avoid spam this is not currently an open wiki — account creation is moderated — but you are most welcome to join and participate. Anyone can view the wiki pages, but only authenticated users can edit them. To obtain a wiki login, just contact the wiki administrator about obtaining a wiki account. You're also welcome on the mailing lists.

Note that the persistent URL (PURL, a safe bookmark) of this wiki is:

  http://purl.org/ceryle/wiki/

Getting It

You can't just download Ceryle — yet. Public release of either binaries or source code will be happening soon. We're trying to get the wiki, the documentation, and then Ceryle on SourceForge.net all up and running — it's a lot of work. The software is still in constant development and substantial parts of its functionality do not work correctly or at all (yes, even parts that used to work). If anyone has expertise in setting up the CVS for a project on SourceForge you could become a hero.

Contributing

Would you like to help?

• Users: If you're using Ceryle and are willing to provide feedback and/or contribute to the wiki, great! The user experience will be a bit like the Wild West, so you'd be exploring new territory. Getting involved early means you may also be able to influence the direction Ceryle goes, before the roads and the cookie cutter houses and the shopping malls get built.
• Developers: If you're a seasoned Java developer and would like to contribute code to the project, we'd love to hear from you. Check out the Ideas page to see what kinds of things need doing. You can also propose new functionality or develop a plugin. If you'd like to join up, just send a message to the email address found at the bottom of this page with some details of your experience and what parts of Ceryle you'd like to work on.
• Documentation: Anyone willing to help write documentation for Ceryle (which is currently all happening on this wiki) is always very much appreciated, regardless of whether it's writing content from scratch, editing, spell-checking, and/or organizing the existing content. The project needs both user and developer documentation. There's a lot to be done.

Also check out the Ideas page to see what kinds of things are planned or what people would like to see supported in the application.

Documentation

Ceryle's user and developer documentation can be found as links on the sidebar to the left. The About page describes in brief what Ceryle is. You can find download, installation and setup information from the Download and Getting Started pages. More extensive documentation such as application help, descriptions of the available features (including menu commands, toolbar buttons, and key shortcuts), etc. were originally built into Ceryle are are being migrated online as things mature. The main UserManual page contains links to this and any other tutorial and reference information.

If you are a developer, the developer page contains information about the software packages that Ceryle uses, APIs it exposes, and links to the Javadoc-generated API documentation.

Feedback & Contact Info

Comments, questions, suggestions, bug reports, any form of feedback is welcomed. You can contact the author at:

• Murray Altheim <ceryle07 (at) altheim.com>