From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 8 21:46:05 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6A131065679 for ; Mon, 8 Jun 2009 21:46:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yuri.pankov@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f214.google.com (mail-fx0-f214.google.com [209.85.220.214]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 349D48FC2C for ; Mon, 8 Jun 2009 21:46:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yuri.pankov@gmail.com) Received: by fxm10 with SMTP id 10so702748fxm.43 for ; Mon, 08 Jun 2009 14:46:04 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:received:received :x-authentication-warning:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id :references:mime-version:content-type:content-disposition :in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=uOuoW14lNFxPlMzAI/tBid7Sx1DiJtVuivLol6KLbMo=; b=cmGyiKwqQDwYSE8BybpKkSrxndPzJRP0ZsW8GZ+srDG42mT5iQtRpR9gK/NV8gYsft DtIqdzlZ42WF0Vwb153AdgxNf+nMMM70ec+lKnCxgZ7LUlFJOoHMAzJAHQCIgjTFoXoT sqNN2M1DjMexw2udrpv9eSulaS0aC4iZqrRdU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=x-authentication-warning:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id :references:mime-version:content-type:content-disposition :in-reply-to:user-agent; b=Id4K6R5agDEn9UXmKmv2FPcSDivrjWOgWYl0AfAAMcPFNxNXPy1kyZD2sIQhiWEQoc p2GD8JdLioiFTPwhjgFrmG6Zxcxh0YJ8y3TTVkzGnstWuCRKS5UTJ3OMKdGEyu46hYl8 2h4PgajmzPxx3mUC2KwhoM2VuCM9LPhuHPdEI= Received: by 10.103.223.2 with SMTP id a2mr2571090mur.54.1244496301245; Mon, 08 Jun 2009 14:25:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from darklight.homeunix.org ([85.175.158.234]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id u9sm8201272muf.7.2009.06.08.14.25.00 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 08 Jun 2009 14:25:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from darklight.homeunix.org (darklight.homeunix.org [127.0.0.1]) by darklight.homeunix.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n58LOwFV004960; Tue, 9 Jun 2009 01:24:59 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from yuri.pankov@gmail.com) Received: (from yuri@localhost) by darklight.homeunix.org (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n58LOwou004959; Tue, 9 Jun 2009 01:24:58 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from yuri.pankov@gmail.com) X-Authentication-Warning: darklight.homeunix.org: yuri set sender to yuri.pankov@gmail.com using -f Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 01:24:58 +0400 From: Yuri Pankov To: Daniel Underwood Message-ID: <20090608212458.GA2541@darklight.homeunix.org> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PDF inventory software X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2009 21:46:06 -0000 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