Hey, At work it's important for me to keep up to date on the latest graphical techniques. I have RSS feeds to all the blogs of other graphics programmers, I monitor conferences, and publications for any findings. I have been managing a document hierarchy of thousands of pdf's, ppts, movies, etc on graphical techniques. I try to keep it as organized as possible with shortcuts to each section. E.g. I'll put a GI paper published at siggraph in the siggraph 09 folder but also put a shortcut to it in my GI folder. When it comes time to implement an algorithm at work I start scanning through all my blogs/docs/etc.. to find all the relevant information. This works ok but the amount of data I have is becoming too large for my brain to handle. As any programmer/hacker would do I started thinking about rolling my own SQL database solution that would allow me to tag documents and enter the location (either webpage/local drive/shared drive). Then I could put a nice web interface or hack toger a quick desktop GUI over the database. But then I realized I have better things to do with my time such as prototying fun graphic algorithms that I read about. :) I'm guessing this is a solved solution and there is free software out there that does exactly this. Has anyone used anything and had success with it? Any recommendations would be appreciated! Thanks, -= Dave

I wrote a piece of software called Mnemo for this exact purpose, but I never released it. People keep asking me to, maybe I should oblige.

I've been evaluating a few products that can support this sort of thing (they're more generalized information management systems though): ShoveBox, EagleFiler, Yojimbo and Evernote.

The first three are, I think, Mac-only. ShoveBox is my current favorite, although it does not yet support tagging and won't until version 2.0. I assume you're a Windows user, so Evernote is probably want you want to look into. It supports cataloguing all sorts of content: pictures, PDFs, web clippings, email, et cetera, and allows you to tag them arbitrarily so you don't have to deal with a folder archive. It also supports integration into browsers and Outlook, and stores all your content on their servers so you can access it from the web or any of their supported platforms (Mac, Windows, iPhone, etc.)

Overall it's a really good piece of software, I picked ShoveBox over it because I didn't need Windows support and I like the ShoveBox GUI much better... and once it gets tags it will be perfect.