Re: [gentoo-user] looking for a cataloging software

[Nick Rout]

On Sun, 06 Aug 2006 13:39:16 +0200
Helge Kaltenbach wrote:

> hi everybody,
>
> i've been searching for a nice little file cataloging software for two
> days straight now, but somehow i can't really find what i'm looking for.
>
> the situation:
> i have about 230 pdf files, essays, comments, press articles etc.
>
> what i want:
> i want to index all of these pdfs, and i want to add notes.
> i'm not looking for something to search through these pdfs!
> the most comfortable thing i can think of right now would look like
> this: i open the program, there is some sort of "add" function and i can
> select a file to add to my catalog/index...and i need to be able to add
> and search for notes. these notes consist of name of newspaper/magazine
> the article appeared in, date it appeared, name of the author, general
> notes (e.g. related topics etc, what i think of the article etc)
> then i dream of a search function to look for either author, date, one
> of the general notes etc..
>
> i tried mylibary
> http://www.people.virginia.edu/~yc2w/MyLibrary/
>
> the functions are fine, but it keeps crashing on me and it has a buggy
> mouse function etc...i added about 30 articles a few days ago, then it
> crashed -> all notes and information i made to all of these 30 articles
> were gone
>
>
> any ideas?
>
> thanks in advance

You could try tellico, it is in portage and the home page is here:

http://www.periapsis.org/tellico/

There is an article in linux journal here:

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8028

I am not sure if it will meet your needs, but its all I can think of :)

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Nick Rout <nick@×××××××.nz>

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