Sidebar Sidebar
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.

some kind of document organizer app?

M

Melan

macrumors regular
Original poster
Oct 7, 2007
126
24
hi all,

is anyone aware of some kind of program for OSX that can do for text documents (.txt files, open office documents, maybe omnioutliner stuff as well) what itunes does for music and iphoto does for photos? It seems archaic and downright messy to use the finder for documents (I still use finder for videos but that's ok since i don't have many and it's easy enough to organize), I end up with a load of folders with names that don't really help when I'm looking for the document I'm after. What I really want is some way of organising documents that means not using the finder, in the same way that I haven't seen a music file in finder since I got itunes. Does something like that exist?

thanks!
 
I totally agree with you, i wish there was somthing better than finder for documents.

often i have a document that i can't put in just 1 folder, because it is relevant to two things... e.g. a receipt for a computer building project, do i put it in computer, or receipts?
 
MrT8064 said:
I totally agree with you, i wish there was somthing better than finder for documents.

often i have a document that i can't put in just 1 folder, because it is relevant to two things... e.g. a receipt for a computer building project, do i put it in computer, or receipts?
Click to expand...

Yeah. Right now i have, among other more clear folder names, "Interesting", "Projects", "Stuff", "Bollocks", "Important Info" and so on. I know I should probably just organize the folders better but whatever I do it seems insufficient - there has to be an easier way to do it!
 
There are programs out there targeted at the research community, and those who collect many .pdf files from published papers. In fact, one is called Papers. It's basically iTunes for pdfs.
 
gauchogolfer said:
There are programs out there targeted at the research community, and those who collect many .pdf files from published papers. In fact, one is called Papers. It's basically iTunes for pdfs.
Click to expand...

Yep! is another great pdf organizer, but still i wish that there was something that could handle my word files too and allow for more tagging etc.
 
gauchogolfer said:
There are programs out there targeted at the research community, and those who collect many .pdf files from published papers. In fact, one is called Papers. It's basically iTunes for pdfs.
Click to expand...

Looking into it, Papers is pretty much exactly what I'd be looking for if it was just pdfs I was having trouble with. That is a really nice program though, I might consider it just to help with the academic stuff.
 
Melan said:
Looking into it, Papers is pretty much exactly what I'd be looking for if it was just pdfs I was having trouble with. That is a really nice program though, I might consider it just to help with the academic stuff.
Click to expand...

I use Yep for PDF's which is great. This same company has recently introduced a beta for an app called Leap, probably this may suit your needs

Cheers!
 
These are some good programs for organizing PDF files, but what about documents created in Pages? I have many and none of these programs recognize those. I can save them in PDF format, sure, but why should I have to? Isn't there some orgazational program out there that will organize ALL of my documents?
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Register on MacRumors! This sidebar will go away, and you'll see fewer ads.
Top Bottom
Back