These screencasts are about how I solve the problems for myself, maybe you might find something useful too.
HOUDAHSPOT SIMILAR PDF
Saving files in directories isn’t good enough in 2012, I needed to find better ways to manage the raw data, PDF files, Word Docs, that relate to projects – either delivery or research. Your employer probably gives you second-rate computing tools like MS Windows & Office but there are software tools that can do valuable and useful tasks for managing your knowledge resources. How do you keep the information organised, referenced, accessible and useful ?
HOUDAHSPOT SIMILAR MANUALS
Just simple tasks like keeping product manuals handy for 40 or 50 products is a real problem. Products, technologies, textbooks, study notes and research material as well as new protocols and features. But if advanced file searches are what you want, HoudahSpot is the application for you.Network Engineers have to manage a lot of information. It’s also priced slightly too expensively for the home market, with most people likely to be willing to “make do” with Spotlight. Where it has limitations, it’s generally Spotlight that’s the issue rather than HoudahSpot – so the email template won’t work with Entourage emails, only Mail’s, for example. The addition of the tray and tagging are extremely useful.
HOUDAHSPOT SIMILAR MANUAL
A menubar item also provides access to HoudahSpot in a similar way to the Spotlight menubar item, while hot keys let you activate the tray, HoudahSpot or the menubar item.Īlthough its interface does hide some of its more powerful features, making a read of the manual something that power users will want to do to get the most from it, HoudahSpot’s easy to use, faster than Spotlight, and is pretty much the application Apple should have included for advanced searches.
To make it easier to tag files, HoudahSpot now provides a ‘tray’ that acts like the Dock and appears from the side of the screen to give drag-and-drop tagging and access to templates. There are a number of applications, such as Default Folder X, that also use the OpenMeta system, so tags created by HoudahSpot can be used in those programs and vice versa. Any file can be given any number of tags and HoudahSpot can search for files with particular tags. Version 3.0 of HoudahSpot uses the OpenMeta system to tag files. You can also save complete searches and use drag-and-drop from the Finder and search results to add file-type searches.
To save time when building queries, you can create templates for searches into which you can then enter more specific data, with HoudahSpot coming with several templates including ones for email searches and “long lost” files that haven’t been opened in the last five years. Results can then be filtered by name or path, sorted by more or less any attribute, or browsed using standard Finder technologies such as Coverflow or QuickLook. You can set search locations, exclude locations and limit the results to recently opened, created or modified files. But it builds on that to allow complex nested ANY/ALL/NONE Boolean searches that can be daisy-chained together and grouped.
Like the Finder’s Smart Folders, HoudahSpot uses pulldown menus to create searches and it can access all the metadata that Spotlight indexes. HoudahSpot provides a graphical interface to access Spotlight’s advanced features.
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