I have several Web hosting accounts and want to create a solution that
I can use to store and manage information snippets.  This will be used
only by me.  For example, if I see a paragraph of a post to an email
discussion list I want to store for later retrieval, I would like to
be able to highlight it, copy it and paste it into a form, drop in a
few keywords and then be able to find it again later on using a search
form.

Initially I had thought about just uploading each as a .txt file and
using an indexer like Google sitesearch, however it is my
understanding that in order for it to index all the pages must be
connected.

Is there an off the shelf solution that does this already? (Web, not
software)  If no, then what script language would work best for this
type of simple knowledge-base type solution?

I don't need you to tell me how to do it, just whether an app or
script exists in PHP that can handle this and if so what it is and
where to find it, or if not, what language would be best to construct
this from.

Hi, adamboettiger-ga. Thank you for your question.

There are many applications that already exist that allow you to
create searchable notes. Many of these are integrated with other
features such as contact lists and organisers. I have tried to exclude
these from the following list.

Below are six possible scripts I found. 

- WebKNotes: http://webknotes.sourceforge.net/, downloadable from
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/webknotes/webknotes-1.0.2.tgz?download

- Mnemo: http://www.horde.org/mnemo/. This is part of the horde
project, and so requires the 'base' set of scripts to be installed. If
you choose this option, you can install additional modules from the
horde project such as webmail and contact managers easily. All the
required files can be found at http://www.horde.org/.

- PHP Notes: http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpnotes/, downloadable
from http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/phpnotes/notes-0.0.1.tar.gz?download

- Online Notes: http://sourceforge.net/projects/onlinenote/,
downloadable from http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/onlinenote/online-notes-1.5.zip?download

- Note To Self: http://notetoself.sourceforge.net/, and can be
downloaded from http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/notetoself/notetoself-1.0.0.tar.gz?download

- Spry Notebook: http://www.bradspry.com/, downloadable from
http://www.bradspry.com/downloads/sprynotebook.zip

As you can see, most of these projects are hosted on the
sourceforge.net site. This is an excellent repository of free,
open-source scripts. If you wish to view other projects available
there that are relivent, please try the following link:

http://sourceforge.net/search/?type=soft&exact=0&q=notes&offset=25&sort_crit=rank_asc&discrim=237

If you want a solution that includes more functions of an organiser,
other sourceforge categories contain these projects. You could also
try http://hotscripts.com/.

If you feel none of the available solutions are what you need, the
best and most common languages to write your own program in are PHP
(http://php.net/) and Perl (http://perl.org). Personally, I prefer
PHP, but it is a matter of taste.

I hope this was useful. If you have any other questions about this
answer, please feel free to request a clarification.

-- wildeep

Thanks so much!