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I love DocFetcher! I discovered this gem of a program when Windows stopped supporting string searches in word processors other than Word.
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I use search my files (smf) from funk Https://funk.eu/smf/. Source: about 1 year ago
For an Hash based duplicate finder on Windows, take a look at https://funk.eu/smf/. Source: about 1 year ago
Funk Software's Search My Files (SMF). Uses CRC calculation to find exact duplicates. It does a two stage match up. Files need to be exact size matches, then it does a CRC calc on these files.You do need to be careful as it prechecks by doing spot CRC calculations to speed things up and some files (in my experience e-books) this may be incorrect and generate false duplicates. You can over-ride this in setup by... Source: about 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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