On Thursday 17 March 2005 12:00 pm, Craig Brooksby wrote:
> I'm using PLUG as a "smart people" forum here -- this is not totally
> Linux-centric.  This is a question about good information management
> practices.
>
> Just having a logical structure of folders for all my files is not
> enough -- although it is important.
>
> Making really well-crafted filenames for my files is not enough --
> although I do that too.
>
> I need to be able to *annotate* each file with comments like "this is
> the final version I submitted to Kurt, and re-submitted on 14 Mar 05"
> or "received from Bernadette for use in the foobar project.  Destroy
> after 1 Jan 2006"
>
> Furthermore, if I could create fields and populate them with values...
> as part of my annotation
>
> Finally, all that annotation is searchable as annotation.
>
> There is a very nice package called FileNotes3
> (http://www.filenotes.com/) that does all that on WIndows.  I have
> used the trial version and loved it.  It stored its own little XML
> database in each folder. It's integrated will with Windows
> right-clicks, etc.
>
> Does anyone else out there obsess over this kind of crap, like I do?
> Are there better packages on Windows or Linux?  If you know anything,
> please pipe up.

Use a wiki.  Write all kinds of comments in the page with the latest or 
successive versions of the file attached to the page.  http://twiki.org 
works well for me.

Alan
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