Ask Slashdot: Software To Organise a Heterogeneous Mix of Files?

BertieBaggio writes "I am a medical student at the end of an academic year trying to get my notes organised. I'm looking for a software document organisation system to organise a mix of text notes, journal articles, diagrams and scans. Ideally such a system would permit full-text and metadata search, multiple categorisations (eg tags), preserve the underlying files and be cross-platform (Linux/Windows/OS X). While I'm not averse to paying for such a complex solution, ideally the software would be FOSS so that extension or migration are possible if necessary. Desktop search (eg Google Desktop) probably does 90% of what I want apart from multiple categorisations, which is the feature I'm most interested in. Searching turned up a similar question over at 43folders which pointed me in the direction of Papers and DevonThink, but these are OS X only and seem to be aimed more at academic paper organisation. What recommendations does the Slashdot community have for categorising and organising a heterogeneous mix of files?"

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Quick Answer

[Anonymous Coward]

Zotero - is awesome - Firefox plugin

Re:an age old solution

[oh_my_080980980]

Because that's not a proper document management solution. Directories/Folders are not a substitute for documents tagged with meta data. Not too mention you can't create views.

Re:Gunna hate this BUT

[Anonymous Coward]

As a SharePoint admin for three years, I can definitely say, without any kind of reservation, that it is utter crap.

Now don't get me wrong, the idea of SharePoint is great. But it is badly designed (the users can't find any document they need) and badly implemented (loosing data is unacceptable).

If you need a document management system, I advice anyone to use SharePoint for a few months and then switch to another system. You'll appreciate your new system so much more that way...

Re:Gunna hate this BUT

[jd2112]

I'm working on a sharepoint add-on to allow paper documents to be processed in the same manner as electronic documents. In it's current form it's a paper shredder with a Sharepoint logo taped to it.