Athens

Athens is a notepad that acts as a documentation, brain map, or idea-correlation generator that manages to connect all your notes and insertions into a logical, visual format, all due to its capabilities of referencing and connecting your separate sheet notes.

Athens comes in an open-source format. As a result, it is free of cost (at least for individual use) and is community-driven and supported. This means the project is easily scalable, offers flexibility, as well as it could take and quickly implement user feedback.

The program has a clean-looking, one-page layout where you can write down your ideas, a top bar with minimalistic icons and commands, including a dedicated search function that has built-in smart file recognition capabilities.

Athens's 'Find or Create a Page' field can be clicked from the top bar or can be accessed via a shortcut (Shift + Enter). It is important to mention that you can insert any file name here. If there is a match to any existing document name that is being indexed in Athens's database, you should get a result/return on your input.

If there is no match found to any of your current filenames, the app will automatically suggest the creation of a new file, with the name you inserted.

Regarding database creation and management, users should take into account that Athens's functioning mechanism helps generate a database that will keep all the data files/notes you create with this application. As such, this would help you keep all your files stored at the same place, well correlated between themselves, with accurate referencing, and neatly organized.

In conclusion, each time you create a new note file with Athens, you create a node. As a result, each node can be connected with other nodes, whether they are alike or not in terms of the content they hold. Based on node correlation and interpolation, you can further develop large and complex sequences with multiple sophisticated and branching logic correspondences.