Definator is a program to write up terms, cross reference them and write up structured descriptions for them. It can also link files to terms. It is supposed to be useful for example in a lecture or other vice to gather concepts and form a picture of the area by mapping relations of concepts and to attach related data to them.

A help project comes with the application, which can be opened from "Help --> Open help..." -menu.

In current release (download) (git tag v0.02) the application is functional, but very little tested. Probably there are bugs and also there are ideas not yet implemented.

Here is one shot of view mode:


and another one from edit mode:

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Definator is developed on Linux and thus works best in it. It runs on windows based on a short test and it should also run in a Mac.

On the development machine Definator uses PyQt 5.3.2, Qt 5.3.2 and Python 3.4.1. It would be nice to hear how it runs in other environments. PyQt5 and Qt5 bundle can be downloaded from here: Download PyQt5, which should be fairly easy to install. On windows python 3 needs to be also installed, before it can run the application.

The application can be run by starting definator.py located at the root of the project.

For releases and other announcements on definator you can read the mailing list definator-users or send a post to the list

Definator is licensed GPLv3, which is in line with the Qt 5 and PyQt 5 licensing options.

The application is developed as a part of graphical UI programming course TIEA212 (2014) at the University of Jyväskylä. It is also developed to scratch an itch to have this kind of a tool at hand, to learn python, to learn qt and for fun.

Author Niko Humalamäki (nikohuma at gmail.com).