Cluug Technology — behind the scenes

During the upcoming weeks I will give some details about the internals of Cluug — how it works, and what's behind the scenes. As you may have already seen, Cluug manages your things — these are the ones that represent your information. Everything may become a thing, starting from a Web page through an email message through a file on your hard disk. But not only digital stuff can become a thing. People, projects, locations, topics — everything you can imagine can become a thing. Currently, Cluug supports only a limited set of things (have a look at the Create Thing menu), and you can create things only manually or using the bookmarklet that you can find on your profile page. We will add more thing types over time and, even more importantly, the possibility to include things from other systems, like your e-mails and calendar entries, so that you don't have to create all these things by hand. The nice thing about things is that each of it has an identifier that is globally valid and unique, and it is independent from any description of the thing — unlike a file name. This means that you can create links between things that hold even if the name (we call it label) of the thing changes. So, no more broken links — Cluug holds everything together. And you can send colleagues or friend a link to the thing, and they will find it for sure. Nice, isn't it?