Re: Cataloging apps for Finder files? (Mathematica notebooks especially)
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- Subject: [mg120927] Re: Cataloging apps for Finder files? (Mathematica notebooks especially)
- From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
- Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 01:27:41 -0400 (EDT)
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The following may be due to my Mac-newbie ignorance....
1. Can Spotlight somehow list the functions defined in a notebook?
2. Can Spotlight provide output that can be manipulated in Mathematica
itself?
On 8/15/11 2:25 AM, DrMajorBob wrote:
> Mac's built-in Spotlight catalogs notebooks already.
>
> Bobby
>
> On Sun, 14 Aug 2011 19:20:31 -0500, AES<siegman at stanford.edu> wrote:
>
>> Can anyone suggest a Mac OS X cataloging app that can easily create
>> multiple catalogs of selected Finder files ("FFiles" from here on) and
>> assist in their management -- with specific reference to catloging
>> Mathematica .nb notebook files distributed here and there on a Mac HD?
>>
>> By "catalogs" I mean separate, named document files (or database
>> files, if you wish), which can be opened and edited by this cataloging
>> app, and each of which contains lists of selected FFiles and data
>> about these FFiles as entries.
>>
>> By "FFile management* I mean the ability to do tasks like:
>>
>> * Add additional FFiles as entries in any catalog (preferably by drag
>> and drop).
>>
>> * Add supplemental info about each entry in the catalog (and
>> preferably have this info be added as metadata to the FFile itself).
>>
>> * Do usual sorting tasks within each catalog, on multiple fields
>> within the entries.
>>
>> * Build and export or print selected lists of the FFile entries in
>> the catalog.
>>
>> * Jump directly from an entry in the catalog itself to the FFile
>> associated with it ("Find in Finder"), or Open that FFile in its own
>> app.
>>
>> Plus other useful tasks, like rename (and batch rename) FFiles, or
>> Move or Copy associated FFiles, directly within the catalog; find
>> duplicates or missing entries; and so on.
>>
>> Existing cataloging apps I know about that can do some of these tasks:
>>
>> * iView Media Pro or PhaseOne Media Pro: Does a superb job of all of
>> these management tasks; can actually be used for .nb files also, but
>> really designed mostly for image files.
>>
>> * EndNote: Really a bibliographic database, doesn't do most of the
>> above -- but if you have a PDF FFile of a cataloged article on your
>> HD, an associated catalog entry has a field that can you open that PDF
>> directly.
>>
>> Existing cataloging apps I know about but am not interested in:
>>
>> * Bento [doesn't create separate catalog document files];
>>
>> * Filemaker Pro: I don't believe it can do most of the management
>> tasks listed above (???).
>>
>> * Excel, Numbers, or other spreadsheets [often used as cataloging
>> apps, but not designed for this task, and lousy at it].
>>
>> Any suggestions appreciated.
>>
>
>
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