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Posted by xtabber
Jan 25, 2014 at 04:15 AM
Wayne K wrote:
I went to “Alternative To” website and entered Wincatalog. The top
>choice returned was “Where Is it”. I just installed it and gave it a
>quick try. No customizable columns there, either
Where Is It has a “description” column which can contain any text you want, up to 32K characters long. You can type descriptions directly into it or use a wizard to import descriptions by means of plug-ins, or you can writie your own scripts. It also has “Category” and “Tag” columns which allow for some additional custom information. Categories are basically tags that can be organized in tree structures in the left pane, providing a rudimentary outlining capability. You can reorder and hide columns in the right pane, but you can’t create additional columns..
Wincatalog and Where Is It are file catalog programs. not information organizers. They do one thing very well, which is to create catalogs of all the files in a variety of local or offline storage locations, so that you can locate them quickly.
IMHO, the registered version of Where Is It is far more capable, in that it allows for multiple catalogs and can be used as a portable program, among other things..
Posted by Wayne K
Jan 25, 2014 at 05:13 AM
You say “Where Is It” can’t add columns. That’s what I said. You can use the columns provided, but can’t create your own columns. Having a description column is hardly a feature since even Windows Explorer allows comments. Tags are fine, but they don’t do what I’m looking for. I’m looking for software that allows me to organize files with customizable columns. “Where Is It” doesn’t do that. That was my only point. I’m not saying it’s a bad program or isn’t useful. It just doesn’t have customizable columns.
For example, I have a collection of articles in pdf format. I want a column to display the article’s author, the website where I found it, the date it was published, and a column to indicate whether I’ve read the article and taken notes, etc. It doesn’t sound like anything too complicated to me, but I’m having trouble finding a program that does it. Nothing you say indicates to me that “Where Is It” can do these things. One description column isn’t enough, and tags don’t work for what I’m trying to do.
Posted by Dr Andus
Jan 25, 2014 at 10:53 AM
Wayne K wrote:
>For example, I have a collection of articles in pdf format. I want a
>column to display the article’s author, the website where I found it,
>the date it was published, and a column to indicate whether I’ve read
>the article and taken notes, etc. It doesn’t sound like anything too
>complicated to me, but I’m having trouble finding a program that does
>it.
How about Snap DB?
http://skwire.dcmembers.com/fp/?page=snap-db
Never tried it but it looks very simple to use and seems fairly popular:
http://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=25028.0
Posted by Achim
Jan 25, 2014 at 12:05 PM
Hi Wayne,
maybe you gave up too early, and maybe I can convince you, to give it another try - because it’s all there:
OPTIONS - SETTINGS - INTERFACE:
Here you can activate gridlines, highlighting of full selected row and also highlighting of sorted column.
The default attributes can’t be changed, they belong to the system or certain file types. But you can create your own attributes, and as I understand you, you did that already.
Now if you right click on the grid-header you get an awful long list of available attributes, where you can check or uncheck those which you want to be displayed.
Your self-created attributes will probably show up at the bottom of the list and they will appear in the grid if you check them.
You can easily edit them in-place. If you double-click on a cell, a little editor will open where you can enter up to 32 KB (or so) of text. Works also for the default description-column.
Anything left? I don’t think.
Ah, and don’t miss the category-feature. Unlike most other similar programs you can have hierarchical categories and you can display multiple categories for each item in the grid (though you can only have one category-column of course).
Best regards
Achim
PS: If you can get along without the file-organizing features, maybe GS-Base will also be an option for you (has configurable columns, edit-fields for long text and fields for attachments)
http://www.citadel5.com/gs-base.htm
Posted by DataMill
Jan 25, 2014 at 03:02 PM
In UltraRecall go to Tools>Attributes. You can insert a new attribute in this module. This might help you out. I have a file with a lot of pdf’s and it keeps them nicely organized.
Mike