Using a PIM to catalog files and folders

Posted by alexxx
Jul 23, 2012 at 11:20 AM

I feel your pain… since I always kept a very careful backup of my digital life, my home dir now spans almost 20 years - and since I like to think hierarchically, its branching is huge.
I searched for a long time for some tool that could enable me to comment this mess, and found none.
Therefore I decided to write one.
After some discarded attempts, I opted for a wiki-like program, whose pages would live in the subfolders of my directory structure.
Each page allows me to write/comment that particular subfolder, with images/links/equations… Default links are added for the “children” nodes of the subfolder (it is a single-panel approach, I’m sorry: I like it better so) to allow for easy navigation.
And optionally, you can open a panel containing all the files present in the subfolder (where you can also comment each individually): a doubleclick on a file launches the associated program.

At the moment it works on Linux and OSX only, and I’d like to add that I’m not a professional dev (I’m a physicist by trade) so I’m certain you’ll find a large amount of bugs… but you can at least rest assured that I’ll keep on developing it: since I wrote it, it is the 1st program I launch on startup, and the last one to exit (now I’m working on the possibility to add outline capabilities).

If you want to give it a try, you’ll find it on http://sourceforge.net/projects/infolder/ , while its homedir is http://www.inrim.it/~magni/inFolder.htm

let me know if you’ll find it useful!

Alessandro