Organizing my notes, songs, photos, links and experiences

[Pengyou]

I have accumulated a large number of files, notes, stickies, pictures, webpage links, html files and audio/video files about various aspects of living in China (cuisine, history, geography, language, etc). I am looking for one computer program that will let me store all of these resources and let me assign key words so that I can find the info easily. Does anyone know of such software? or can someone give me some effective search words to use to help me narrow down the hits that I get when I look?

Thanks!

[gato]

Have you tried Microsoft's free Windows Desktop Search? I believe it's now built-in in Windows 7. You can separately install it if you are still using Windows XP. You can set it to index only the directories you need or entire drives.

[jbradfor]

google desktop may help. It doesn't help you organize what you have into a single source, but it may help you find it.

[Gleaves]

Evernote might be worth a look.

[gato]

Microsoft's Windows desktop search is actually better Google's, both in terms of speed and computing resources required (which makes sense, because for a low-level program the OS maker has a lot of advantages over any third-party programmer). Now that the MS desktop search is bulit into Windows, there is not much room for anyone else any kore. Google has pretty much abdanoned desktop search.

[roddy]

Yeah, make sure they have meaningful info somewhere in the folder path, filename, or tags, and then let Windows Desktop search index them.

ie,

Chinese Stuff/Travel/2010/Yunnan/old-lady-with-ugly-feet.jpg

It'll search inside text files, which is pretty handy.