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Catalogue/database/organizational app?

Freeman O'Shea | Mar 30 2008

I am an environmental designer (fancy-speak for architecture and related fields) looking to create a database of media - best practices, inspirational photos, links PDFs, text files, video, snippets and so on. 

I am searching for an app to help me do this.

Ideal Criteria:

OS X Must include tagging I would like to add captions/notes to accompany media files Searchable Linkable (internally) Exportable Easy capture/input of media

Any and all help is appreciated.

Cheers,

Freeman


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Journler is one of the best

Submitted by samrhall on March 31, 2008 - 12:51pm.

Based on your description of what you need, I would look at either Journler or DevonThink.

DevonThink will most likely be able to handle all your needs and then some, but the learning curve is pretty steep.

I use Journler. I’m a political consultant and freelance writer, so I put it through its paces with research material.

It can handle most types of files, integrates with your Mac and has a great online forum with an active community.

Best of all, it’s reasonably priced.

SRH

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Cheers

Submitted by Freeman on March 31, 2008 - 9:43pm.

Will look into DevonThink - may do the job.

Journler is awesome but not quite up to the task I think - I need more POWER.

Thanks Sam.

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