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Program to manage information on my computer
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| Hi to everybody,
I guess You'll know what I mean when I say that after a couple of years (or
decades) quite a lot of information of different kinds gets on a hard drive.
Textfiles, pictures, pieces of code, shortcuts to websites, archived
websites and stuff like that. I am looking for a program in which these
things can be catalogued in a logical way (forgive me if my English is not
100% perfect; it is not my own language). I do not wish to put everything
into that program, it just has to be able to _point_ to the info which
remains in its original form. But, what is important, I would like to be
able to put certain files into multiple lists. For example, I would like to
make a category "Programming" with a sub-category "Turbo-Pascal". Another
category might be "Hardware Info" with sub-category "VGA-cards". I would
like to be able to insert a pointer to a file called "VGA-programming with
examples in Turbo-Pascal.txt" in both categories.
I hope You understand what I mean. I guess something like this could be made
with MySQL or something like that, but that is way above my head. I was
hoping that a program that is made especially for doing this kind of "info
bookkeeping", exists. Preferably open source, but freeware would be OK as
well. At the moment, I use windows but I intend to switch to Linux in the
future (though probably not a 100% switch because of the games ;-), but for
all serious things I do on my computer, I would like to get rid of windows).
So if it would be cross-platform or exist in versions for the different
OSses, it would be very nice (however, I do not know enough about Linux yet
to be sure whether path-info to the files I have put in the database, will
still be usable after a migration).
I have googled quite a lot but I do not really know which search words to
use; "information managing database" or something like that gives many links
but not to things that I am looking for. I have found treepad lite but that
is more or less meant for storing the info in the file of the program itself
if I understand it correctly.
I hope You can give me some advice. I am in no hurry, but some day I really
have to put some system into all the info I collected ;-).
Many thanks in advance!
Sincerely,
Rene
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| dadiOH 2005-10-24, 7:57 am |
| Rene wrote:
> Hi to everybody,
>
> I guess You'll know what I mean when I say that after a couple of
> years (or decades) quite a lot of information of different kinds gets
> on a hard drive. Textfiles, pictures, pieces of code, shortcuts to
> websites, archived websites and stuff like that. I am looking for a
> program in which these things can be catalogued in a logical way
> (forgive me if my English is not 100% perfect; it is not my own
> language). I do not wish to put everything into that program, it just
> has to be able to _point_ to the info which remains in its original
> form. But, what is important, I would like to be able to put certain
> files into multiple lists. For example, I would like to make a
> category "Programming" with a sub-category "Turbo-Pascal". Another
> category might be "Hardware Info" with sub-category "VGA-cards". I
> would like to be able to insert a pointer to a file called
> "VGA-programming with examples in Turbo-Pascal.txt" in both
> categories.
Personally, I do what you want to do with the built in Windows
methodology - shortcuts. If that doesn't appeal to you, you might find
Wilbur useful.
http://wilbur.redtree.com/
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dadiOH
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Get it at http://mysite.verizon.net/xico
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| dadiOH wrote:
> Rene wrote:
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> Personally, I do what you want to do with the built in Windows
> methodology - shortcuts. If that doesn't appeal to you, you might find
> Wilbur useful.
> http://wilbur.redtree.com/
>
> --
> dadiOH
> ____________________________
>
> dadiOH's dandies v3.06...
> ...a help file of info about MP3s, recording from
> LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that.
> Get it at http://mysite.verizon.net/xico
>
>
Wilbur is an excellent freeware indexer which also includes OpenOffice
formats, besides the standard MS formats
Frank
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| Michael B. Johnson 2005-10-24, 7:00 pm |
| On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 12:21:24 +0200, "Rene" <invalid@invalid.com> wrote:
<snipped/>
>Textfiles, pictures, pieces of code, shortcuts to websites, archived
>websites and stuff like that. I am looking for a program in which these
>things can be catalogued in a logical way (forgive me if my English is not
>100% perfect; it is not my own language). I do not wish to put everything
>into that program, it just has to be able to _point_ to the info which
>remains in its original form. But, what is important, I would like to be
>able to put certain files into multiple lists. For example, I would like to
>make a category "Programming" with a sub-category "Turbo-Pascal". Another
>category might be "Hardware Info" with sub-category "VGA-cards". I would
>like to be able to insert a pointer to a file called "VGA-programming with
>examples in Turbo-Pascal.txt" in both categories.
<snipped/>
>but not to things that I am looking for. I have found treepad lite but that
>is more or less meant for storing the info in the file of the program itself
>if I understand it correctly.
>
>I hope You can give me some advice. I am in no hurry, but some day I really
>have to put some system into all the info I collected ;-).
I would indeed recommend TreePad. One can use hyperlinks to files of all sorts
(I'm not sure about the "Lite" version, but the Business edition works just fine
for that) or folders.
You can then export that information to a webpage, if you so desire.
I've found that TreePad Business Edition 7.2 works under Linux WINE, using SUSE
9.3 Professional. The font is poor (too small for me, but readable) and I
haven't used it a lot, but at the very least you'll be able to read your TreePad
databases under Linux. It worked for me.
However, I couldn't get TreePad's *Linux* version to work. TreePad Support
failed to respond when I asked via e-mail for Linux support of their free
version. (I'm a registered user of their Windows version and they support that
very well indeed.)
So, I do recommend TreePad as a solution for the situation you've described, but
I recommend the Microsoft Windows Business Edition for both Linux and Microsoft
Windows, for now.
Silly Disclaimer: I own no stock in the company, nor do I know anyone personally
in the company, nor do they pay me any money.
_______________________
Michael B. Johnson
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| miskairal 2005-10-26, 4:01 am |
| Rene wrote:
<snip>
(forgive me if my English is not
> 100% perfect; it is not my own language).
<snip>
> Rene
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I'd have never known if you hadn't said. It's a shame more youngsters
can't write/explain themselves as well as this in their native English.
Congratulations!
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| Jasen Betts 2005-10-27, 7:58 am |
| ["Followup-To:" header set to alt.comp.opensource.]
On 2005-10-24, Rene <invalid@invalid.com> wrote:
> Hi to everybody,
> I guess You'll know what I mean when I say that after a couple of years (or
> decades) quite a lot of information of different kinds gets on a hard drive.
> Textfiles, pictures, pieces of code, shortcuts to websites, archived
> websites and stuff like that. I am looking for a program in which these
> things can be catalogued in a logical way (forgive me if my English is not
> 100% perfect; it is not my own language). I do not wish to put everything
> into that program, it just has to be able to _point_ to the info which
> remains in its original form. But, what is important, I would like to be
> able to put certain files into multiple lists. For example, I would like to
> make a category "Programming" with a sub-category "Turbo-Pascal". Another
> category might be "Hardware Info" with sub-category "VGA-cards". I would
> like to be able to insert a pointer to a file called "VGA-programming with
> examples in Turbo-Pascal.txt" in both categories.
make some directories and put descriptive links (or shortcuts) to the files
in those directories, or you could go all-out and write your own website...
> I hope You understand what I mean. I guess something like this could be made
> with MySQL or something like that, but that is way above my head. I was
> hoping that a program that is made especially for doing this kind of "info
> bookkeeping", exists. Preferably open source, but freeware would be OK as
> well. At the moment, I use windows but I intend to switch to Linux in the
> future (though probably not a 100% switch because of the games ;-),
linux has file-links which are kind of like windows shortcuts but they
behave more like they are actually the file they link to than shortcuts
do.
> but for
> all serious things I do on my computer, I would like to get rid of windows).
> So if it would be cross-platform or exist in versions for the different
> OSses, it would be very nice (however, I do not know enough about Linux yet
> to be sure whether path-info to the files I have put in the database, will
> still be usable after a migration).
hmmm, that's a tricky one. linux can read windows filestsytems but it
doesn't assign them letters like windows does so what was C:\interesting\stuff
would become for instance /mnt/win_C/interesting/stuff
so it wouldn't be a real big deal to translate one to the other using
software...
Bye.
Jasen
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| Klaatu 2005-10-27, 7:02 pm |
| On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 10:21:24 GMT, Rene posted to alt.comp.freeware:
> I hope You can give me some advice. I am in no hurry, but some day I
> really have to put some system into all the info I collected ;-).
Not sure it will meet your needs, but could be close. Take a look at NeoMem
at http://www.neomem.org
Good luck.
--
If guns cause crime, matches cause arson.
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| "miskairal" <mehiding@Oz> schreef in bericht
news:435f36ea$0$4806$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au...
> Rene wrote:
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> <snip>
> (forgive me if my English is not
> <snip>
> I'd have never known if you hadn't said. It's a shame more youngsters
> can't write/explain themselves as well as this in their native English.
> Congratulations!
* BLUSH * ;-)
Greetings,
Rene
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