Using a PIM to catalog files and folders REDUX

Posted by Cassius
Jul 3, 2012 at 06:31 AM

I’ve started a new topic, as the original wandered off into Connected Text.

My original thought was related to the concern (that many of us have and some of us have experienced) about a PIM becoming moribund and the necessity of transferring the information stored in it into some other application.

One possibility for avoiding this problem is to store all information in standard files (Word, Excel, .htm, .jpg, ...) and use a single PIM (or PIM-like) program (call it K) to store links to these files, with the links cataloged or categorized by topic.

Preferably, one would like the application K that stores the links to be one that is likely to be around for a very long time. MS Word would seem to be a good candidate.

I am still using Word 2000 and while it has some outlining capabilities, they are insufficient for the needs of most of us. Perhaps a later version of Word has better outlining capabilities.

A second requirement from my point of view is the ability to be able to drag and drop file links directly into K. Several applications have the capability of storing a link, but the process is more time consuming than a drag and drop.

Unfortunately drag and drop does not seem to work in Word 2000 (at least for .htm and .gif files).
Perhaps a later version of Word can accept drag and drop. (Anybody willing to test this for different file types?)

As I stated in my original topic ( http://www.outlinersoftware.com/topics/viewt/4079/0/using-a-pim-to-catalog-files-and-folders ), I found only one application that would accept every link I dragged and dropped into it. That application is TreePad Business. There probably are others, but not among the ones I have.

If anyone knows of others, or has other ideas, please let us know.

Thanks!

-cassius