organizing documents

[nowo4]

I'm looking for a program that includes editable categories and
subcategories of documents and links on these documents in a tree
structure, perhaps with a file description, similar to the bookmarks in
an internet browser.

The purpose is to get lots of documents on the pc structured.
(Of course, organizing the documents in directories and sub-directories
would help, but often several structure-centered views are necessary.)

 

[Dave]

I'm looking for a program that includes editable categories and
subcategories of documents and links on these documents in a tree
structure, perhaps with a file description, similar to the bookmarks in
an internet browser.

The purpose is to get lots of documents on the pc structured.
(Of course, organizing the documents in directories and sub-directories
would help, but often several structure-centered views are necessary.)

Try Keynote http://www.tranglos.com/free/keynote.html
or TreePad http://www.treepad.com/treepadfreeware/
Either one will do what you're asking. (recent convert to these
progs..thx to S. Bugher)

Dave

 

[Mel]

I'm looking for a program that includes editable categories and
subcategories of documents and links on these documents in a tree
structure, perhaps with a file description, similar to the bookmarks in
an internet browser.

The purpose is to get lots of documents on the pc structured.
(Of course, organizing the documents in directories and sub-directories
would help, but often several structure-centered views are necessary.)

This may suit your needs:

This paperless office software is ideal for a small business. It uses a
method mimicing the classic file cabinet, and the sectioned file folder,
to store documents. It is suitable for a doctor, lawyer, or small
business, and can store 10 million file folders and 1 billion documents
or pages. The software takes files/documents, input with a scanner or
created with a program like Word or Excel, and organizes them in an
Access database, made to look like the classic filing system, with file
folder names and folder sections. The goal was to create a very fast and
efficient way to organize, look up, view, and print documents. Users and
user passwords can be created and every entry is automatically labeled
with the user who entered it. Although I have not undertaken a legal
investigation, this system can be a legitimate method of maintaining
records if employed with the proper safeguards to document tampering and
privacy. Files can be made unalterable and confidentiality can be
maintained.

A Help File is built into the program. The program can be setup to mimic
the way you work and the way your files are labelled and organized. To
take advantage of all the software's features you will have to spend
some time reading the help text to learn as much as one can glean from
this information. Much of the program's functioning is intuitive and
similar to the way other Window's software operate. If you have comments
or suggestions please feel free to email me, but do not expect a
response. I will not be able to provide any technical support, as you
would certainly expect with a free product.

http://www.geocities.com/garytobis/MainPage.html

Download:

http://users.adelphia.net/~garytobis/

 

[nowo4]

Thanks!
Keynote and Treepad are nearly ideal, especially TreePad with its
import/export capability. But the way the links are integrated in both
programs is a little bit "ugly" because you can see the whole link
within the written text, and the link is not part of the tree
structure.
I'd like to have only the tree structure with categories as nodes (as
it is performed by Keynote and Treepad) and the links being a part of
the tree. The only required text would be perhaps a description of the
document.

 

[nowo4]

I downloaded and installed it, but after starting the following message
appeared:
"Unrecoverable error, the program database file does not exist!!!"
I read the INI file, there the installation directory was
"C:\Program Files\Documentor\" , but on my PC it installed itself in
"C:\Programme\Documentor\".
I changed the INI settings, but now it stops with a runtime error. Same
after deinstallation and new installation; I will contact the author.

 

[Roger Johansson]

I'm looking for a program that includes editable categories and
subcategories of documents and links on these documents in a tree
structure, perhaps with a file description, similar to the bookmarks in
an internet browser.

The purpose is to get lots of documents on the pc structured.
(Of course, organizing the documents in directories and sub-directories
would help, but often several structure-centered views are necessary.)

TkOutline could be a better alternative than Keynote
for this purpose.

TkOutline is a one-pane text outliner, with all kinds of
linking you need. Import and export features are excellent.

Import formatted text and tkoutline adapts it to outlining,
it also imports opml, which is a common xml dialect.
Export in several formats, txt, html, xml, email, opml.

The internal format of tkoutline is a simple text format, with
curly parenthesises showing the indent level.

http://tkoutline.sourceforge.net/wiki/


Thoughts about using outliners and other tools.

I need a purpose for every such project, a purpose
and a plan. What kind of structure, for what use?

My basic plan is to use the file system in my computer
for organising my files.
Other ways to organize have to build on the structure
of data on my hard disk.

If I used an organizer it would be for creation a new
index, a new portal into my data.
Or into data available on the net.
Good organizers can use links both within the computer
as well as external links.

I could make a presentation, a html page structure,
a book about something, and an outliner would be a
perfect tool to organize the data.

I have to choose between putting files in a certain
location, or let them stay in their current place.

If I link to files and later move them the links won't work.

For some purposes it is better to create a folder with
all the data needed so it can follow the document.