I'm still looking for a tool that will search the contents and meta data of a
set of files.  Support for PDFs, MS Word .doc, .mbox, giff, jpg, mp3, and ogg,
.java file support would be required.  I am sorta hoping that blinkx
(http://www.blinkx.com/overview.php) will come out with a desktop search for
linux soon.


But yha, putting meta data into a file is easy, getting things to query on it
is harder.
So I too feel your pain but do not have a solution


On Thu, 17 Mar 2005, 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.
> 
> (the other) Craig
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