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+\skbheading{The Short Story}
+
+I have written papers, done a lot of presentations, provided some book chapters,
+still working on a book, participated in many research proposals and projects, and
+created tons of notes and figures. As of early 2009, most of that information was
+distributed over the repositories of different projects and organisations I worked
+for, in some document management systems, on several websites, databases, my preferred
+email client (which changed twice), different computers and later even different
+external hard drives and USB sticks. Looking for specific text or a particular figure
+could easily end in a days work. Tools like desktop search engines can help to find
+'stuff'. I used them, but if they found anything it was hard to maintain the context
+it was written in and some formats or sources were out of reach for them. Even worse
+with figures and the many versions some of them evolved in over time. After multiple
+jobs and several years, all I had is kind of a very messy base of knowledge, well-hidden
+somewhere, thus very difficult to locate and impossible to maintain.
+
+So I started early 2009 to re-organise my 'stuff'. At the same time, I did realise that
+moving away from \LaTeX was part of the problem (and I thought using the other text
+processor would help, it actually didn't, long-term). So \LaTeX became, again, the
+text processor of choice, and with it the ability for a complete different approach
+to organise my 'stuff'. This was the moment the \SKB~was created. \SKB~stands for Sven's
+Knowledge Base. The \LaTeX package \skbem[code]{skb}, described in this article, forms part of a larger
+software system that uses SQLite databases, a small PHP framework, Apache for HTML access
+and recently also a Java port.
+
+My document repository uses the \skbem[code]{skb} package, so most of my documents are eventually
+\LaTeX documents. I am saying eventually because I still use other tools (like Microsoft's Powerpoint),
+but integrate their output in my repository. I do all my figures these days using Inkscape, so the source
+is SVG and the output for \LaTeX documents PDF. For editing the text files I do flip between UE Studio
+and LeD. Parts of the content (such as acronyms and bibliographic information) are maintained in SQLite
+databases and exported to \LaTeX. This package now shows how I build my documents. \ No newline at end of file