Just drag or copy the lic file into the program folder.
THEN start the program.

Now here is the trick,
click on server/client tab,
remove demo database from there aswell.
now it will not keep loading.

It is NOT hauntingly be undeletable,
as u put it.
It just requires some looking and some thinking.
Hope this is not too rude for poster69

#28,30, Shellca, I was able to export in various formats, but with severe problems. For one, PDF format uses their online service, which I find unacceptable from a performance and privacy perspective. For another, Adobe Acrobat Reader (fully updated) couldn’t read the PDF file, so the PDF output is useless. Dumping a captured webpage in MHTML format indicates that the problem is with the capture, not with the display, so the webpage capture is useless to me.

I’m using Firefox 3 beta; the GKB extension installed, but like many extensions, it’s disabled (incompatible) under Firefox 3.

Regarding the GKB IFilter, apparently it’s only for documents which have been exported in GKB’s .kbd Knowledge Base Document proprietary format, not for documents in GKB’s database. Additionally, I see no need for yet another proprietary format. There are so many document formats; they may not be perfect, but one can find a standard format which is good enough.

Considering all of the basic, severe problems, and the proprietary nature of this application, I can’t recommend it.

I save webpages locally, but some people may be interested in Google Notebook. Google Toolbar beta (currently, IE only) supports Google Notebook.

I don’t think a comparison with Evernote is really possible, though their base functionalities might sound the same at first description. Evernote is a note taking application (version 2.2 – not the Beta 3 they’re screwing around with now) and has all the little bells and whistles to make information gathering, arrangement, rearrangement, etc., very easy and adaptable. It’s great for daily jottings, broad disconnected research assembling, random stuff.

But General Knowledge Base seems much more oriented to specifically building a reference “book” to be consulted later for purposes of training, help desk, or for specific ongoing project use.

To put it another way, Evernote seems oriented towards the “front end” of info gathering, making it easy to collect and group data, GKB seems oriented towards the use of that data after it’s been collected, analyzed and organized. Evernote is a great catch-all, but if I wanted to create a reference source (a knowledge base) for some topic or project or business, I’d probably use General Knowledge Base. In fact, I’d probably use Evernote to gather the data initially and analyze it, then export the good pieces to a GKB for subsequent use as reference material.

This program has a lot of good features for putting together a good reference book – native document editor with formatting, table and templates. Ability to database text, html, pictures, etc. Links to external documents. Ability to add attachments to any database record. Ability to search, to bookmark groups of documents, change the viewing layout, different ways to navigate records, etc, etc. Very nice.