I often am making notes in meetings and need to use and reference in the notes many documents stored with horribly complicated names such as
IST_44_11_0037_ISO_IEC_JTC_1_SC_39_N_2196.pdf
stored in various directories. I might need to reference half a dozen or so of these in a typical meeting. This is a tough task and its easy to end up with such files badly-filed all over the place while working. So I've been looking for some note-taking software that would let me drag and drop files in and focus on the limited context to be better organised and make it easier for myself - stuff like journier, growly, yojimbo and Devonthink. The need is to a) easily click around the working documents on the fly (I don't usually know what docs I need until the time) whilst editing some and preserving their original names and locations.
Disappointed to find not one of the probably 20 apps I looked at will manage a symbol table of names for links. They all it seems give you two possibilities
1. To copy in a file (sometimes converting to rtf, sometimes doing that badly). Such files one can change the name of the copied file to make it more readable as they are then local copies - but one loses the reference to the original location and none of them seem to manage their own metadata so no easy way to store that info somewhere else except in a separate note (I need useability here - number of clicks matters).
2. To store a link to the file - but then its the *actual* file they link to and changes of name in the app change the name of the original file outside the app. One can't even get around it with mac aliases as all the ones I tried ignore the name of the mac alias and pick up the actual file name and file.
Aaarghhhhh!!!!!
Is it too much to ask for an app that manages local names for referenced files ? A few of them seem to provide additional notes that could be used but every one of those I found wouldn't create links to files in its (manifest) list of files.
A workaround is to keep one file in which one enters links and to use that to click on the links when a file is to be accessed but its a complete kludge - a slick app would provide a local naming mechanism - its only one more indirection through a table, not exactly hard - seems to me the apps out there don't do much for the money they charge.
Anyone know of an app that does what I want (manages local aliases for links to files and does a bit of providing editing windows and launches programs to edit the files) ? Like Devonthink only even better.
?
andy
IST_44_11_0037_ISO_IEC_JTC_1_SC_39_N_2196.pdf
stored in various directories. I might need to reference half a dozen or so of these in a typical meeting. This is a tough task and its easy to end up with such files badly-filed all over the place while working. So I've been looking for some note-taking software that would let me drag and drop files in and focus on the limited context to be better organised and make it easier for myself - stuff like journier, growly, yojimbo and Devonthink. The need is to a) easily click around the working documents on the fly (I don't usually know what docs I need until the time) whilst editing some and preserving their original names and locations.
Disappointed to find not one of the probably 20 apps I looked at will manage a symbol table of names for links. They all it seems give you two possibilities
1. To copy in a file (sometimes converting to rtf, sometimes doing that badly). Such files one can change the name of the copied file to make it more readable as they are then local copies - but one loses the reference to the original location and none of them seem to manage their own metadata so no easy way to store that info somewhere else except in a separate note (I need useability here - number of clicks matters).
2. To store a link to the file - but then its the *actual* file they link to and changes of name in the app change the name of the original file outside the app. One can't even get around it with mac aliases as all the ones I tried ignore the name of the mac alias and pick up the actual file name and file.
Aaarghhhhh!!!!!
Is it too much to ask for an app that manages local names for referenced files ? A few of them seem to provide additional notes that could be used but every one of those I found wouldn't create links to files in its (manifest) list of files.
A workaround is to keep one file in which one enters links and to use that to click on the links when a file is to be accessed but its a complete kludge - a slick app would provide a local naming mechanism - its only one more indirection through a table, not exactly hard - seems to me the apps out there don't do much for the money they charge.
Anyone know of an app that does what I want (manages local aliases for links to files and does a bit of providing editing windows and launches programs to edit the files) ? Like Devonthink only even better.
?
andy