I love DocFetcher! I discovered this gem of a program when Windows stopped supporting string searches in word processors other than Word.
DocFetcher might be a bit more popular than Keep It. We know about 12 links to it since March 2021 and only 10 links to Keep It. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
I wonder if Keep It might help you with searching and organizing your library. Source: about 1 year ago
With this one you put your files "into" the app in what is somewhat misleading called "notes". Think of a note as a data container where you can put many file types and edit them later on from within the database app: https://reinventedsoftware.com/keepit/. Source: over 1 year ago
Another option on Mac OS is Keep It. I have used them simultaneously on the same folder. Source: over 1 year ago
I use Keep It [1] on macOS/iOS and save pages as PDFs. [1] http://reinventedsoftware.com/keepit/. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago
Seeing that you're probably on the Apple ecosystem, is there a reason why Devonthink didn't make your list? Seems like it satisfies all 5 of your criteria. If that for whatever reason doesn't work out, there's also Notebooks or KeepIt. Source: over 2 years ago
I use https://docfetcher.sourceforge.net/en/index.html to index and search large repos of docs. I use Papermerge for my digital file cabinet though. DocFetcher is good for searching an existing repository of files. Source: about 1 year ago
As they state, it is crap-free, free forever, cross-platform, portable, private (local only), and indexes only what you need. You can also set minimum and maximum file sizes to index. See https://docfetcher.sourceforge.net/en/index.html. Source: over 1 year ago
What I'd recommend is setting up a digital and/or physical technical library. Download any useful documents, books, standards etc. and store them in a clear, concise folder structure. Then create an index of the library with a tool like DocFetcher. (Think of it as Google for your technical library) This should make it fast and easy to find the relevant information when you need it. Source: over 1 year ago
DocFetcher? https://docfetcher.sourceforge.net/en/index.html. Source: over 1 year ago
I use Outlook for e-mail and calendars. I use Evernote to store my notes. I also have a folder in Dropbox called "docs" where I store TXT (and others like DOCX and PDF etc) files for tasks/projects like the cisco firmware update example. I use DocFetcher (https://docfetcher.sourceforge.net/en/index.html) to perform search on the stored notes in TXT / DOCX / PDF / etc. Source: over 1 year ago
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