Re: Looking for document and file organisation tools
On Tue, 3 Mar 2015 21:18:21 -0800 (PST)
Rusi Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday, March 3, 2015 at 10:50:04 PM UTC+5:30, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> > What free software is there in the way of organizing lots of documents?
> >
> > To be more precise, the ones I *need* to organize are the files on hard
> > drives, though if I could include documents I have elsewhere (bookshelves
> > and photocopy files) I wouldn't mind. They are text documents in a
> > variety of file formats and languages, source code for current and
> > obsolete systems, jpeg images, film clips, drawings, SVG files, files,
> > object code, shared libraries, fragments of drafts of books, ragged
> > software documentation, works in progress ...
> >
> > And I'm not looking for one single solution that will do everything I'd
> > like. Indeed, I suspect that's impossible without building an entirely
> > new OS. Which I'm not likely to find off the shelf, nor am I likely to
> > be able to do it myself in the few decades I may have left in my life.
> > And even if it were feasible, there's probably a lot of research to be
> > done before we even know what such a thing should actually do.
> >
> > Of course the files are already semi-organized in directories. But I
> > haven't yet managed to find a suitable collection of directory names.
> > Hierarchical classification isn't ideal
>
> Bullseye! As someone quipped: Why is google able to find things on the www
> better than I am able to find in my drive?
> In one word (rather two) hierarchical filesystems
>
> Have you seen recoll http://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/
I love recoll - I've been using it for years, and I find it invaluable.
Not the most polished software in the world, but it really works
wonders for me. [It's in the Debian official repos.]
Celejar
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