On Mar 29, 2008, at 2:05 PM, Carl Denk wrote:
> If the issue is importing the text data from the web page or E-mail
> order info, I use a SNAGIT, a screen grabber that can take most  
> anything
> from the screen or clipboard (text or image) and export it to  
> clipboard,
> a file or other output. I use it to copy/paste sort of thing to get  
> text
> (alphanumeric) to the Excel spreadsheet including financial data.


I've been fascinated lately with the concepts behind Apple Bento -- a  
"personal database" that handles multimedia, documents, etc...  anyone  
playing with it?

I've gone the Google Desktop route on a couple of machines before...  
their target seems to be the disorganized... dump it on your machine  
somewhere and this gadget running all the time and annoyingly taking  
up CPU and RAM will find it for you... but that's not what I wanted,  
so it went away.

These small proprietary relational databases like Bento seem useful,  
right up until you have to beat on them to get your data into them in  
some way that makes sense to you.  Then you just want the simplicity  
of a spreadsheet or text file again... heh.  I dunno what's the best.   
I lean heavily back to boring old ASCII text and a reasonably sane  
directory tree system, most of the time -- but that's my Unix  
background and profession showing... I can manipulate text... boy can  
I do that... that's what Unix does best!  But sometimes I yearn for a  
modern user interface... and then find them annoying... back and  
forth...

--
Nate Duehr
nate@natetech.com



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