Txt "db" or "cataloguer" that shows file contents, too (not just an indexer)?

[fitwell]

Tramp told of an app (sorry, I deleted app and have forgotten name)
that sort of inventories the text files in chosen directories. Each
folder had a different pulldown one accessed to get to those text
files. But it not only inventoried them, it actually showed the
contents of the two files it actually processed!

I liked the concept very, very much because up till now, I've been
cataloguing those folders full of information text files I have with
DIR2HTML. DIR2HTML, and the other indexers I have tried, do do an
excellent job, but they just index. This text file cataloguer/db
actually listed the contents of the text files and did so without
affecting the originals at all. Intriguing and extremely useful app,
if it had worked. For whatever reason that I could not figure out,
this otherwise great-in-concept no-install little app didn't catalogue
more than a couple of files in all the folders. There were were as
little as 5 text files in one, but over 100 in a couple of the others
and varying amounts in between in the other 4 or 5 folders.

Until I saw this app, didn't see a solution to this text file
headache. And it is a headache because the files don't stay static so
they require quite manual indexing every once in a while. Also, I
cull occasionally when I go through to check the info., and then I add
ones as new info comes in (so very easily done with Firefox's "send to
notepad"! <g>)

Is there anything out there that can do this sort of thing, anyone
know?

 

[Mel]

Tramp told of an app (sorry, I deleted app and have forgotten name)
that sort of inventories the text files in chosen directories. Each
folder had a different pulldown one accessed to get to those text
files. But it not only inventoried them, it actually showed the
contents of the two files it actually processed!

I liked the concept very, very much because up till now, I've been
cataloguing those folders full of information text files I have with
DIR2HTML. DIR2HTML, and the other indexers I have tried, do do an
excellent job, but they just index. This text file cataloguer/db
actually listed the contents of the text files and did so without
affecting the originals at all. Intriguing and extremely useful app,
if it had worked. For whatever reason that I could not figure out,
this otherwise great-in-concept no-install little app didn't catalogue
more than a couple of files in all the folders. There were were as
little as 5 text files in one, but over 100 in a couple of the others
and varying amounts in between in the other 4 or 5 folders.

Until I saw this app, didn't see a solution to this text file
headache. And it is a headache because the files don't stay static so
they require quite manual indexing every once in a while. Also, I
cull occasionally when I go through to check the info., and then I add
ones as new info comes in (so very easily done with Firefox's "send to
notepad"! <g>)

Is there anything out there that can do this sort of thing, anyone
know?

NoteWorx is a tool to build and manage various types of information,
ranging from plain and rich text notes to web pages to electronic forms
and database files. For free-form data, NoteWorx functions somewhat like
an outline where you set up topics, with one or more "items" linked to
each topic - and each item can be linked to a detailed "note". For
database information, such as an inventory file or a contact list,
NoteWorx provides an integrated "Data Manager" module. And if you're
looking for a way to handle electronic forms, you can build HTML "forms"
(using NoteWorx's built-in Web Page Editor and browser) to create and
maintain collections of documents, such as invoices or sales orders. For
additional flexibility, NoteWorx also includes a built-in scripting
language which can be used to do things like creating a "slide show".

http://www.plworx-software.com/

 

[laurent]

Tramp told of an app (sorry, I deleted app and have forgotten name)

It is infobook

that sort of inventories the text files in chosen directories. Each
folder had a different pulldown one accessed to get to those text
files. But it not only inventoried them, it actually showed the
contents of the two files it actually processed!

You could try shellsearch : if you specify the last level
directory, it will display the files (set .txt for text)
in this folder. I agree it's not the same concept.

I just see Simple Disk Manager, on

http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/...Utilities/Simple_Disc_Cataloger_Download.html


Google search for "cataloger" will help


laurent

 

[miskairal]

Tramp told of an app (sorry, I deleted app and have forgotten name)
that sort of inventories the text files in chosen directories. Each
folder had a different pulldown one accessed to get to those text
files. But it not only inventoried them, it actually showed the
contents of the two files it actually processed!

I liked the concept very, very much because up till now, I've been
cataloguing those folders full of information text files I have with
DIR2HTML. DIR2HTML, and the other indexers I have tried, do do an
excellent job, but they just index. This text file cataloguer/db
actually listed the contents of the text files and did so without
affecting the originals at all. Intriguing and extremely useful app,
if it had worked. For whatever reason that I could not figure out,
this otherwise great-in-concept no-install little app didn't catalogue
more than a couple of files in all the folders. There were were as
little as 5 text files in one, but over 100 in a couple of the others
and varying amounts in between in the other 4 or 5 folders.

Until I saw this app, didn't see a solution to this text file
headache. And it is a headache because the files don't stay static so
they require quite manual indexing every once in a while. Also, I
cull occasionally when I go through to check the info., and then I add
ones as new info comes in (so very easily done with Firefox's "send to
notepad"! <g>)

Is there anything out there that can do this sort of thing, anyone
know?

Is Tombo the app you are talking about?
I heard of it through this ng but can't remember now who told us about it.

I've got version 1.13 and it works a dream. I can store all my snippets
of info in separate .txt files but I simply open Tombo to view/browse
all those .txt files in a tree view.

No install.
http://tombo.sourceforge.jp/En/

 

[fitwell]

Tramp told of an app (sorry, I deleted app and have forgotten name)
that sort of inventories the text files in chosen directories. Each
folder had a different pulldown one accessed to get to those text
files. But it not only inventoried them, it actually showed the
contents of the two files it actually processed!

I liked the concept very, very much because up till now, I've been
cataloguing those folders full of information text files I have with
DIR2HTML. DIR2HTML, and the other indexers I have tried, do do an
excellent job, but they just index. This text file cataloguer/db
actually listed the contents of the text files and did so without
affecting the originals at all. Intriguing and extremely useful app,
if it had worked. For whatever reason that I could not figure out,
this otherwise great-in-concept no-install little app didn't catalogue
more than a couple of files in all the folders. There were were as
little as 5 text files in one, but over 100 in a couple of the others
and varying amounts in between in the other 4 or 5 folders.

Until I saw this app, didn't see a solution to this text file
headache. And it is a headache because the files don't stay static so
they require quite manual indexing every once in a while. Also, I
cull occasionally when I go through to check the info., and then I add
ones as new info comes in (so very easily done with Firefox's "send to
notepad"! <g>)

Is there anything out there that can do this sort of thing, anyone
know?

Thanks, everyone, for the responses! I took a look at them all. I've
come to the conclusion that though they're all good, they don't seem
to do what InfoBook did when I accidentally could get it to
"catalogue" a file. InfoBook doesn't work in tree form (a big plus
for me, I hate to say it, but I'm not a fan of trees <g>), and you
don't have to drag/drop all your files into it. It seems to
"catalogue" them from wherever they might be and doesn't affect the
orginal files. HTML indexing is great for finding but doesn't have a
proper preview or reading capability right from the index itself.
Like I said, InfoBook seems great in concept though I can't get it to
work (no help file), but the few files it does manage to "index" hint
at a great tool.

By any chance, does anyone know how to get InfoBook to work who's
figured it out? Or if anyone knows where there is a help file?

Thanks.

 

[fitwell]

Thanks, everyone, for the responses! I took a look at them all. I've
come to the conclusion that though they're all good, they don't seem
to do what InfoBook did when I accidentally could get it to
"catalogue" a file. InfoBook doesn't work in tree form (a big plus
for me, I hate to say it, but I'm not a fan of trees <g>), and you
don't have to drag/drop all your files into it. It seems to
"catalogue" them from wherever they might be and doesn't affect the
orginal files. HTML indexing is great for finding but doesn't have a
proper preview or reading capability right from the index itself.
Like I said, InfoBook seems great in concept though I can't get it to
work (no help file), but the few files it does manage to "index" hint
at a great tool.

By any chance, does anyone know how to get InfoBook to work who's
figured it out? Or if anyone knows where there is a help file?

Thanks.

Still very much looking for this.

I tried Catfish and Diskcat again and I have Cathy. I tried these in
desperation as nothing comes up still in googles searches. Nor does
anything come up in the archives except for Columbs. But at a
whopping 36 megs, that's not the one for me even if it does do what I
need, which is doubtful.

So got to finetuning requirements on what would work - if anyone knows
of a cataloguer that has the features below, that would do the trick:

- limits cataloguing to types of files, in this case TXT
- has a preview window to see file contents _without_ affecting
original files
- has a search feature so that we can search for specific text, again,
all this without affecting the original files themselves.

Thanks! D