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Date:      Tue, 9 Jun 2009 01:24:58 +0400
From:      Yuri Pankov <yuri.pankov@gmail.com>
To:        Daniel Underwood <djuatdelta@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: PDF inventory software
Message-ID:  <20090608212458.GA2541@darklight.homeunix.org>
In-Reply-To: <b6c05a470906081417x370edb66yb86fac71b462eab8@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <b6c05a470906081417x370edb66yb86fac71b462eab8@mail.gmail.com>

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On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 05:17:29PM -0400, Daniel Underwood wrote:
> I'm looking for a way to manage my personal collection of research
> articles.  Ideally I'd like some way to keep records on authors,
> keywords, journals, and publication years of articles (PDF files)
> downloaded onto my local drive.
> 
>  In the course of reading literature for research, it often happens
> that I find myself wanted to return to something I have previously
> read, but I only recall a few "things" about the article, often the
> author and a keyword.  Is there some inventory/database software (for
> local use only) that can be easily used for this purpose?  (The
> closest things that comes to mind (conceptually) is "image collection"
> software.)
> 
> What are some of my options here?
> 
> Thanks,
> Daniel

Try using sysutils/tracker-client (http://projects.gnome.org/tracker/).
It should do what you and much more.


Yuri



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