CRIMP Alert: A Compiled List of PDF Managing and Search Tools

Posted by Derek Cornish
Feb 10, 2008 at 07:07 PM

Ike Washington wrote:
>I don’t worry too much about keywording scraps since I
>tend to use Scrapbook to store the full text of the pdf or html file. Every word stored
>there get indexed by dtSearch. I sometimes add an annotation, say a unique project
>title - this gets indexed too.

I like to use WR’s categories as a way of classifying/keywording my imported files in multiple ways. This gets over the limitations of the Windows filing system or WR’s tree - in both of which cases, one can only store the file in question in one place at a time.

>I remember Web Research as being pretty good. But, as I remember, it
>didn’t allow the folder view to be filtered. This became a problem for me since I
>created a complicated system which tried to cover all aspects of the research
>task.

That’s right, it doesn’t. But you can always hide the folder tree, which only provides a basic way of filing content, and just work with categories via the “categories” view. I don’t know if this would allow you to achieve what you want, but it is an option.

> Perhaps Macropool should have stuck with “ContentSaver”?

Yes, using common names - “Brainstorm”, “Keynote” etc. - does create problems when trying to search for them on the web. Perhaps a good reason after all for names like “Infohesive”? :-)

Derek