Index and search text files?

[eselk]

I'd like to find something that will let me save a bunch of text files
in a folder, on a network drive. It would create an index, like a CHM
file or Google does, so that keyword searches would be really fast.
Then it would display a simple list of results, something like Google
where it displays part of the text (around where the word was found).

I don't mind if I have to manually tell it to reindex whenever I add or
edit files. Especially if I can tell it which files I changed or added
so that it doesn't need to reindex everything (unless it is fast enough
to reindex everything).

Basicly I want to save a bunch of notes, in text files, and then allow
anyone to quickly search my notes and open the text files.

The Google desktop or toolbar apps almost work, but they have limits
for network drives and not any options to not search my local drives (I
only want to search this one folder). Instead Google wants me to buy
some $1500+ hardware to do this.

 

[miskairal]

I don't know if this will work on a network or even if it's what you are
after but it might do the job.

Tombo
http://tombo.sourceforge.jp/En/index.html (It's author is Japanese)

It provides a tree view of text files in a given directory and via the
Edit menu you can search them. You can add new files from within Tombo
or you can just create the new file in the directory and Tombo will find
it next time it is opened. Subdirectories will also be included.

The one thing I really like about this is that no matter what OS comes
out in the future and regardless of whether Tombo will run on it I will
aways have access to my notes in the .txt format. Other note taking
programmes require installation of their programme to read the notes.

I'm using an older version (1.13) and it will run off a USB drive.

 

[KBB]

Tombo
http://tombo.sourceforge.jp/En/index.html (It's author is Japanese)

It provides a tree view of text files in a given directory and via the
Edit menu you can search them. You can add new files from within Tombo
or you can just create the new file in the directory and Tombo will find
it next time it is opened. Subdirectories will also be included.

Cool! I wish it would do RTF files though.

KBB

 

[jmatt]

I'd like to find something that will let me save a bunch of text files
in a folder, on a network drive.

Try a search something like this.
freeware rtf NotesTaker
http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=freeware+rtf+NotesTaker+&btnG=Google+Search&meta=
freeware rtf Notes Taker
http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=freeware+rtf+Notes+Taker+&btnG=Search&meta=

 

[qwerty]

(e-mail address removed) wrote on 11 May 2006

Try a search something like this.

Then why bother with newsgroups, if you have google etc......

qwerty

 

[miskairal]

and html files for all those web pages of info I save
Maybe the newer version does do rtf files, I still have an old version.