Structuring your Memento Database
This page is in its infancy, is incorrect, incomplete, and under development.
If you're just starting with Memento or just starting to use it for something new, it may not be clear to you how to represent your data in Memento to allow the user to get what he/she wants out of it. This article suggests some approaches to consider.
Structuring simply - One Main Thing
The simplest use of Memento is to use a single library to represent data about a single thing.
Simple uses
For instance, you might want to have a To Do list in Memento. As is often the case, it could be anywhere from very simple to pretty complex. Let's start with the very simplest one, so see Tutorial:Simple To Do List.
Another simple use would be as a library of recipes. Could you use Memento in a very simple way to catalog your recipes and then look them up later? The easy answer is yes. See Tutorial:Simple Recipes.
The key to simplicity is that all information in this library is about the task or recipe as a whole. These simple solutions don't try to define details of ingredients, nutrition, task duration, or due dates — just the Tasks and the Recipes themselves.
Pages of simple data
Simple with lists
Using special data
Simple slicing & dicing
When to use a list vs multiple libraries
Master & detail
When more libraries are needed
Slicing & dicing when using multiple libraries
Structuring - Serious slicing & dicing
Structuring - Enhancing your visual presentation
Fields sharing a row
Field fonts & colors
List items with fonts, colors, and icons
Using images
Charting your data
Structuring - Leveraging the Internet
Using Autofill
Using barcodes
- the casual, perhaps single-library user
- who just wants to throw up a grocery list or recipe repository
- the intermediate user
- who might want to have some related libraries tracking some activities
- the power user
- who might be pushing the boundaries in certain areas, like scripting, complex data structure, retail or barcode solutions, media solutions, contact applications, product catalogs, charting, or others
- the organizational user
- who might need teamwork collaboration, cross-platform compatibility, cloud storage & coordination, library protection, and others
Memento's online catalog of user templates contains thousands of predefined, ready-to-use libraries to use directly or serve as a starting place. It also gives users the opportunity to familiarize themselves with a large number of ways to use Memento to provide solutions.