I'm looking for an efficient way to record the names and biographical data of various persons and organizations and their links with each other. I have tried MSAccess, but it does not seem workable. There are several Freepers who do an excellent job of finding references to articles or names and posting it quite fast. I'd like to know how they store and recall that data so quickly.
Any help will be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
this may seem like a stretch....but a genealogy program may provide you with what you need...something like Family Tree Maker.
Guys, I think I found the answer. It's called Sleuthhound. I'm attaching the readme file. You have to index your holdings, but once you have them indexed, this mother flies through them like lightning and picks out all the files that have the keyword(s).
The Sleuthhound! version 4.5
Copyright (C) 1999-2004 iSleuthHound Technologies
All Rights Reserved
What's new
The main new features of The Sleuthhound! and The Sleuthhound! Pro version
4.5.2 are:
- Improved Index/Search Engine for more stable work.
- Updated PDF Plug-In (available for The Sleuthhound! Pro and Power Pack
users)
- Updated MS Outlook Plug-In (available for The Sleuthhound! Pro and Power Pack
users)
The main new features of The Sleuthhound! and The Sleuthhound! Pro version
4.5.1 are:
- Fixed bug with wrong highlighting keywords in Results Browser by using search by phrase.
The main new features of The Sleuthhound! and The Sleuthhound! Pro version
4.5 are:
- New feature for Plug-Ins: "Masks" - allows you to customize what files
should be included (excluded) from Search Zone.
- Fixed bug with unable to save Search Zone Index files in any folder
from Search Zone Wizard.
- Corrected problem with displaying HTML icons on Windows XP.
- Improved search by phrase.
- Improved search by several keywords.
- Updated Outlook Express Plug-In.
- Updated PDF Plug-In (available for The Sleuthhound! Pro and Power Pack
users).
The main new features of The Sleuthhound! and The Sleuthhound! Pro version
4.4.1 are:
- Improved working of Search Zone Scheduler on National Languages.
- Updated MS Outlook Plug-In (available for The Sleuthhound! Pro and Power
Pack users).
The main new features of The Sleuthhound! and The Sleuthhound! Pro version 4.4 are:
- International User Interface (available for 9 languages include Spanish, French, German)
- New "Deep Search" option that automatically extends search query to document properties.
- New "Wide Search" option that allows to search for ANY documents from search query.
- Updated MS Outlook and MS Outlook Express Plug-Ins
- MS Office compatibility improved
- Uptake of search zones improved for upgrades.
The main new features of The Sleuthhound! The Sleuthhound! Pro version 4.3 are:
- New set of email related Plug-ins.
- New way of customizing complex Plug-Ins for indexing exactly what you need inside complex data sources such Zip Archives and email messages with attachments.
- New "Plug-in Properties" Options panel allows fine tuning of complex Plug-ins.
- New "Selected Documents" Panel allows you select any number of documents from Search Results for further operations (Copy, Open, Edit, etc.)
- New "Search Report" option allows you to view whole Search Results as a large HTML file. You can save Search Report, Print, Send via email, etc.
- New "Save Results as" options allows to export search results in various formats such HTML, text, xml, csv (Comma Separated Values).
- New shortcuts on Main Window and Results Browser.
- Wheel mouse support on Results Browser.
- Results Page may display up to 100 docs.
The main new features in The Sleuthhound! version 4.2 are:
- Fixed bug with "Getting Chunk Offset xxxxx" message during Update.
- Added Sorting Options "None".
- Added indicator that displays "Preview" operations during Search Zone Update.
The main new features in The Sleuthhound! version 4.1 are:
- Fixed bug with "Bad Chunk Offset xxxxx" message during Update.
- Fixed bug with very long Search Zone update.
- New "Smart Update" function that stop update of Search Zone if user push "Go Search" button.
- New options "Language" allows easy change the language of User interface.
The main new features in The Sleuthhound! version 4.0 are:
- New Index/Search Engine.
- New User Interface in the Main Program.
- New User Interface in the Results Browser.
- New "Advanced Search" panel in Results Browser gives access to Power
Searches.
- New "Favorite Searches" panel in Results Browser allows saving of
popular searches.
- New "Search within results" option.
- New "Search by exact phrase" option.
- Search documents by Date/timestamp and date range.
- Search documents by FileName.
- Search documents by Foldername.
- New Update Search Zone Scheduler with additional options
- Easy integration with MS Windows Task Scheduler.
- Improved "Preview document" function that permits previewing 10
documents on the Results Browser Page.
The main new features in The Sleuthhound! version 3.2 are:
- New Options panel with following new features:
1) Allows users to change the font of any text information in the
Results Browser and Search Field.
2) Allows users to change the language (character set) in the
Results Browser in Search Field.
3) Allows users to change the number of documents displayed per page.
4) Allows users to change the number of lines extracted from
documents in the preliminary display.
5) Allows users to set the application options such: Keep on Top,
Run when Windows start, Run minimized, Keep Panel of Search Manger open.
6) Display the information about Plug-Ins
- Right Click functionality in the Results Browser:
1) Open document
2) Open document in new Window
3) Open with another application
4) Go to the document with Windows Explorer
5) Copy document (Save as .. to other folder)
6) Delete the document
- Right Click functionality in the Search Field that allows users to
paste the keywords.
- New improved Folder Explorer in the Search Zone Wizard.
- Defaults names and Search Zone options for creating new Search Zone.
- Some small improvements and bugs fixed.
The main new features in The Sleuthhound! version 3.1 are:
- Improvements to the User Defined type with speed and file types
enhanced.
- Improved operation of Sleuthhound in StartUp Folder
- Improved operation of Search Zone creation for international users.
- Automatic update of existing versions of The Sleuthhound! on your
computer.
The main new features in The Sleuthhound! version 3.00 are:
- The Sleuthhound! now supports plug-ins to allow you to extend
program functionality.
- Plug-ins for access additional documents formats: RTF document,
Adobe Acrobat PDF documents and more
- Removable Drives support for Iomega Zip Drives and CD Rom drives.
- Improved the algorithm of creating Search Zone.
- The speed of creating the Search Zone has increased 50%.
- Improved search and display documents speed up to 200%.
- Support for search of CD Rom drives.
- Added new Preview of document selection in the Results Browser
- Searched text now highlighted in Results Browser
- Added A-Z or Z-A sorting in the Results Browser
- Added option "Open With ..." when clicking on the document of
unregistered type in the Results Browser
- Added searchability by Document properties: date, name.
- Windows NT/2000 Multi user logon compatibility
- Added Schedule option "Never" in the Search Zone Manager
- Automatic support for Latin-1 character sets and support
available for all foreign language character sets.
The main new features in The Sleuthhound! version 2.21 are:
- Improved the algorithm of creating Search Zone. The speed of creating
Search Zone has increased 500%.
- Added progress bar on last step of Wizard that shows the current
status Search Zone creating process.
- Hide Wizard option during creating of Search Zone process added.
- Status Bar on Main Window added.
- Improved the algorithm of displaying extracts from documents text in
Results Browser.
- Save last 20 searches option added.
- Clear searches history list option added.
- Stop button on Results Browser added.
- Minor bugs fixed.
Other changes include:
- Improved international date support.
- Fixed bug with Access Violation when exit the program during
creating Search Zone.
- Improved the algorithm of creating Search Zone. The speed of creating
Search Zone has increased 50%.
- Complex logical query with logical operator AND, OR, NOT, () support.
- The Search Result Browser shows document path in short format
(document name and previous folder only) when the Search Result
Browser window is small.
- Added hint on The Sleuthhound! icon in system tray that shows current
Search Zone status.
- Fixed bug with creating Search Zone very large size (above 60 Mb).
- Fixed bug with international language document search support.
- Added sorting Search Results by document type and date.
- Added Hints in Search Result Browser on document header, document
text, document type.
- Search Zone Manager Panel added.
- Search MS Excel documents ( version only)
- Search HTML documents ( version only)
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