Help Finding Correct Software

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Aug 29, 2010 at 10:07 AM

bobmclain wrote:
>I’d like to find software that will take in four
>bits of data: the title of the update, the URL of the update, and the tag used to classify
>the update. I should then be able to click any tag and get back a list of the updates

I would use Evernote, as it would take the title and URL automatically from the site posting. I count three rather than four fields in your phrase above, so I expect that the fourth one is the date of the update, which Evernote would also fill in automatically -assuming that you create the note on the same day that you posted the update. You will only have to fill in the tags manually.

>But what I’m looking for is that type of functionality delivered through a
>simple tabular or spreadsheet interface. No tree, no RTF, no editor. Just a big, big
>tag-enabled table, preferably free,

Evernote’s list view is just that; you can simply hide the note pane below. And the basic service which should be more than enough for your needs, is free.

>preferably with minimal system requirements.

This is something where Evernote is problematic. An alternative, very light on resources, would be Cintanotes. Don’t expect the above automisation though.