Alexandre Guimaraes wrote:

> I have a huge amount of paper with application notes, printouts from list
> messages, data sheets, interesting projects, etc, etc... 
> 
> I think most of the professionals on the list professionals on the list
> also have. How do you organize the mess ?? I tried so many ways over the
> years that it is hard to describe all. I have the opportunity to hire a
> person to organize the papers or make it all digital by scanning what is
> not in electronic format and grabbing the PDF's when it is still
> available. Is there any nice way to do this ? How to "decide" wich
> "categories" to have ? Any software to do searchs after it is all in ?

I don't think hierarchical categories make a lot of sense. What works very
well for me is assigning arbitrary keywords and have a list of the content
that filters down as I type the keywords. I don't have this for documents,
but I have it for bookmarks <http://www.kaylon.com/power.html>. For me,
that's the way everything on my system should be available. But I don't
know any product that works this way on the file system, even though it
shouldn't be too difficult.

Plus, of course, a traditional search through indexed content. On Windows,
you have at least Google and Microsoft providing reasonable and free
products for that. Of course that won't work with scanned and not OCRed
documents... no suggestions for this part. But both work with text-based
PDFs.

Gerhard

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