Document Management

royal

I was curious if you guys use any type of document management/library software on your PC to organize documents/scripts that you have. I'm looking to really organize my stuff a lot better and create some kind of library so I can search and find my stuff a lot easier without having to navigate a folder structure looking for the document I need.

Claymoore

Sounds like a job for Google Desktop. I don't use it or any other indexing software so I can't offer any reviews. I tried using IIS' indexing feature to index Word documents on a file server once and never could get it to work right.

dynamik

You might want to consider setting up a personal wikipedia. That's great for organizing a massive amount of text. I use it to take notes on all my exams.

Check out the video at the bottom of this page: http://lifehacker.com/software/wikipedia/geek-to-live-set-up-your-personal-wikipedia-163707.php

It looks like YouTube is down at the moment. Maybe try again in a little bit. I believe she demonstrates how you could write a novel this way, but it still gives an idea of how it could be used. Plus, it keeps track of all the changes you make, so you can always retrieve an earlier version.

theseman

A lot of our Engineers use an app called SuperCat. You can create a library and perform searches pretty quickly.

http://www.no-nonsense-software.com/supercat/

HeroPsycho

Why not use Sharepoint?

If your company doesn't have a sharepoint server, Windows Sharepoint Services 3.0 is free.

Bonus: You learn Sharepoint if you don't know it already.