Looking for information management solution

Posted by Dr Andus
Oct 26, 2009 at 12:45 PM

I’d like to ask for some advice on software that could help me with the following problem. On my Windows XP PC I have a folder with 110 sub-folders, each entitled with the date (e.g. 2008_01_16) when the material that it contains was collected. This material is mostly MS Word or Excel documents, PDF files, occasionally sound or image files). I would like to get a software that would enable me to categorise and annotate the contents of each folder. The data is about various organisations, some of which are related, and this categorisation and annotation would be part of the analysis of my data (it’s for my PhD). Ideally this software would enable me to do this quickly (drag and drop data, add categories and annotations), and would also include a hyperlink back to the original folder and/or files, so I can drill down into the data if necessary.

Any suggestions?

doctorandus