Organizing Thousands of Quotes

Posted by Slartibartfarst
Jun 12, 2016 at 09:33 AM

There’s lots of proggies you could use to store quotes, and some I have used are:
* Lotus Agenda - FREE Text only, no RTF (on Win10-64 that would have to be run under DOSBOX from http://www.dosbox.com
Agenda is a DOS program, available via download links per Wikipedia entry as public domain.).
Text can be stored as small text files outside the database, and thus searchable by WDS (Windows Desktop Search).

* CHS (Clipboard Help & Spell): FREE Text (no RTF) and images (from DonationCoder.com).
An excellent clipboard and very nifty tool whose database is great for storing any text content and (separately) images - though text can be attached to images - and all is rapidly searchable with user-configurable “virtual” folders (auto-generated and stored SQL search terms).
Arguably one of the best - if not THE best - clipboard tool available, though it lacks the RTF+images and HTML capability of NoteFrog.

* Notefrog: USD10 or so, text, RTF+images and HTML From http://notefrog.com/
Another excellent and very useful clipboard tool, it even has a ready-made database of quotes for users. In Beta development, upgrades have stopped until they sort out how to resource future development.

* Info Select: Superb PIM: USD-Lots. I use IS8 (version 8), but there are later versions IS9, IS10. IS11 Beta has just been launched (I am trialling it now).
Text can/could be stored as small text files outside the database, and thus searchable by WDS (Windows Desktop Search)..

* MS Excel 2016 spreadsheet-database: Could be a perfect tool for this sort of thing.
Flexible options. Having a database using a common and widely-used database format could make it easy to share or to migrate to another database tool. It’s an LCD (.CSV format would be a Lowest Common Denominator).
The content of Excel spreadsheets can be indexed/searched by WDS (Windows Desktop Search).

* InfoQube: Could be a perfect tool for this sort of thing.
Not sure if Flexible options. Having a database using an uncommon/proprietary database format could make it difficult to share or to migrate to another database tool.

* GS-base: Could be a perfect tool for this sort of thing.
Not sure if Flexible options. Having a database using an uncommon/proprietary database format could make it difficult to share or to migrate to another database tool.

* OneNote: As a relatively advanced user of OneNote, I wouldn’t recommend it for this kind of task per se, though I would suggest that you could well keep the quotes database in (say) Excel and store it as an object contained in a OneNote Notebook. This would give you the benefit of having the database optionally as:
(a) just existing in a Notebook on the client, or
(b) existing in a Notebook in the Cloud AND on the client, and
(c) shareable, if in a Notebook in the Cloud.
- in addition to which, you would have the database in a tool (Excel) which is widely used and has an LCD format (as described above).
However, objects like Excel spreadsheets do not currently have their context indexed/searchable by either OneNote search or WDS, so that could be a potential drawback.
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Just some thoughts. Hope they are of use/help.