[cobalt-users] InfoMagic - make your own personal archive

["Carrie Bartkowiak" <ravencarrie@xxxxxxxx>]

This is just a little testimonial from me that I think you guys will find
*really* useful when organizing your mailing list notes.
Everyone talks about how they keep notes from the list in text files on
their hard drive, so they can hunt through them later. I do too, got a huge
folder called "Host" with all kinds of stuff in it.
I found a little FREE program tonight (I'm not affiliated with it in any way
whatsoever and won't get any type of payment for this note) called InfoMagic
and I think it might be worth looking into.

Basically you make folders, make files in those folders (it stores
everything in .txt files so you can import/export them however you want) and
then you can use InfoMagic to search through the text in those files to find
what you want. Use it for a journal, even.
But the cool thing is, you don't have to go copy/pasting all of your mailing
list notes into a new format. Just take those text files you've made and
drop them into the folder you made in InfoMagic and you're set. Then just do
a search and it will come up with the files that have those keywords in 'em.

I think it could be a *really* useful tool for helping us make our own
personal archive - keeping text files with useful posts is one thing, but
being able to search through them is even better! (It activates links and
email addies too if you want it to, and will launch browser/mail program
when you click on it in the text file.)
Anyhow, here's the URL:
http://members.nbci.com/InfoMagic/

He also offers a shareware/pay version but I'm messing with the free version
right now and it's got everything we need to make our own little archives.
Just no fancy stuff like colors/fonts and such.

CarrieB