Re: Looking for document and file organisation tools

2015-03-09 Thread Emil Payne
On 03/03/15 09:28 PM, David Christensen wrote: On 03/03/2015 09:13 AM, 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

Re: Looking for document and file organisation tools

2015-03-09 Thread Charlie
On Sun, 8 Mar 2015 14:08:34 -0400 Celejar sent: > Yep - mine are 6+ GB, for a system containing only several tens of GB > (at most) of indexable documents. > > > Now I just use the find feature of mc, or grep. > > Doesn't that take quite a long time and lots of disk access for large > collecti

Re: Looking for document and file organisation tools

2015-03-08 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 7 Mar 2015 10:15:45 +1100 Charlie wrote: > On Fri, 6 Mar 2015 10:11:26 -0500 Celejar sent: > > > 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 r

Re: Looking for document and file organisation tools

2015-03-06 Thread Jude DaShiell
On Fri, 6 Mar 2015, Victor wrote: > On 03/03/2015 18:13, 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

Re: Looking for document and file organisation tools

2015-03-06 Thread Charlie
On Fri, 6 Mar 2015 10:11:26 -0500 Celejar sent: > 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.] I used it for quite a time myself, but there was some

Re: Looking for document and file organisation tools

2015-03-06 Thread Victor
On 03/03/2015 18:13, 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.

Re: Looking for document and file organisation tools

2015-03-06 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 3 Mar 2015 21:18:21 -0800 (PST) Rusi Mody 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 > > drive

Re: Looking for document and file organisation tools

2015-03-04 Thread Jonathan Dowland
Excellent question. I think one best-in-class tool that is useful for all types of files is the holy grail. However, there are quite good tools in specific domains, for example photo-management tools, so if you break the job up into sub-tasks based on file type (e.g.: photos; music; videos) you may

Re: Looking for document and file organisation tools

2015-03-03 Thread Rusi Mody
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

Re: Looking for document and file organisation tools

2015-03-03 Thread David Christensen
On 03/03/2015 09:13 AM, 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 min

Looking for document and file organisation tools

2015-03-03 Thread Hendrik Boom
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 o