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Subject:RE: Managing the Multitudes From:KMcLauchlan -at- chrysalis-its -dot- com To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 8 Mar 2001 11:05:19 -0500
Yes, that's getting to the heart of the matter.
The "folders-organized-by-eventual-location" tend
to multiply, as do the contents, which often apply
to several projects or documents and so have to
be stored many times over across many of those folders.
In Outlook and in NT Explorer, is there a way to
do secondary and tertiary searching on the results
of a first search? I search a few hundred folders
for a keyword and end up with 75 files in the search
results... but "Find" doesn't seem to offer a way
to search for another string in just those 75. It
wants me to start over with the 300 folders.
Anyway, the database notion is looking rather attractive.
> We use a system similar to Lydia's: folders in Outlook, organized by
> eventual location of the bits-and-pieces. We too have begun
> to think that
> there's a lot of stuff in there, and that a different system
> is needed:
> what we are trying for now is including all new bits in
> manuals pretty much
> as the bits are produced, rather than waiting and doing a
> massive updating
> 1x per year. Ask me in 6 mos. whether this works.
IPCC 01, the IEEE International Professional Communication Conference,
October 24-27, 2001 at historic La Fonda in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.
CALL FOR PAPERS OPEN UNTIL MARCH 15. http://ieeepcs.org/2001/
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