OT: Archiving Useful Postings

Jay Gladwell wrote on 3/25/2005, 5:17 AM

In the for what it's worth department...

One day, not too long ago, while reading an interesting and useful post, I got an idea (those don't come along too often). I copy the entire individual post (not the entire thread for obvious reasons) that contains the information (including Subject, Posted by, and Date), paste it into and e-mail and send it to myself.

Then, I print out a hard copy of that e-mail, punch three holes in it and put in a 3-ring binder with tabs, according to the subject. It has proven to be a valuable reference resource!


Comments

Grazie wrote on 3/25/2005, 5:44 AM
Me? . . I do a Save to Favs - Give it a Title that makes sense to me. Now I've got a Favs Veg Tips. So as long as I'm online, I can get an onscreen thing.

Yeah, I've also played with the idea of a simple SS using some type if search facility. Then here we got the search facility.

Grazie

Grazie wrote on 3/25/2005, 5:47 AM
Jay? I just thought. Why send to yourself? I do Highlight>Print>(print)Selection. This then gives me ONLY what I want. This would save the email to yourself step. I gotta a HP1010 laser printer - I've even set up a format for printing both sides of paper for VEGAS forum only! Works very well!

Grazie
Jay Gladwell wrote on 3/25/2005, 7:10 AM

Because sending an e-mail gives me both a hard copy and an e-copy which I save on my hard drive.


Randy Brown wrote on 3/25/2005, 8:01 AM
Like Grazie I have a "Forum" folder in favorites but after thinking about it, Jay's suggestion of e-mailing it to myself and putting it in a folder in Outlook I could do (optimum) keyword searches...good idea Jay!
Randy
Grazie wrote on 3/25/2005, 8:33 AM
" . .and an e-copy which I save on my hard drive" Excellent! - G
p@mast3rs wrote on 3/25/2005, 8:40 AM
I just go to File Save As in browser and save the page as an html file to the hardisk. Always there when I need it and am not online.
Grazie wrote on 3/25/2005, 9:07 AM
Of course! - G
Coursedesign wrote on 3/25/2005, 9:24 AM
"Jay's suggestion of e-mailing it to myself and putting it in a folder in Outlook I could do (optimum) keyword searches...good idea Jay!"

Yes, and by using Google Desktop Search instead of Outlook search you can find what you need in seconds instead of many minutes or worse...

Outlook search must be written in interpreted BASIC, it is beyond ridiculously slow.
Randy Brown wrote on 3/25/2005, 9:37 AM
If you call 2-5 seconds ridiculously slow then you're right ....however I am downloading Google Desktop Search as I write this...sounds interesting...thanks : )
Randy
Coursedesign wrote on 3/25/2005, 9:49 AM
Randy,

How big is your .pst file?

Mine is more than 2GB, and that's after archiving.

A wide Outlook search on my fairly decent P4 system can take over lunch, while Google Desktop does the same search in about a second.

B.J.
Randy Brown wrote on 3/25/2005, 9:55 AM
Hey BJ, my wife says SIZE DOESN'T MATTER and besides it's none of your business how big my ...uhhh...whats a .pst?
Randy
Coursedesign wrote on 3/25/2005, 10:07 AM
Psssst, pass it on: .pst is Outlook's file format, and it is grossly inefficient.

I suspect they held off work on improving it, because they were expecting to have a new fantastic database-based (rolls off your tongue doesn't it) file system by now, but this may not appear even in Longhorn, who knows.

Google Desktop solves the problem anyway.
Randy Brown wrote on 3/25/2005, 10:13 AM
Google Desktop Search is indexing as I write this...well not as I write this because it only does it when the PC is idle...so I'll quit typing now so it can get back to work...thanks BJ
Randy