![]() ![]() Since a number of people have asked me to talk in more detail about how I organise this and what methods I use, here is some rough description of how I perform knowledge management. In terms of reading documentation to find what I am looking for then, without doubt, a Web page is the easiest way to review lots of materials to find what you are looking for. Most of the web pages on a vendor site aren’t the core technical information that I’m looking for. Once I’ve found a useful document, white paper, technical reference, product manual or whatever then I will download it to keep for reference. Why download it ?īig companies have big websites. And big websites have things changing and moving, and a bookmark isn’t useful two or three years later because the content has moved. It’s frustrating to recall that read about something but cannot find it. ![]() If it’s a blog page, then blogs often disappear when people change lives and decide to stop paying for the hosting. I’ve learned that you can’t rely on the Internet to be a reliable content store. So, now that you have downloaded a bunch of PDF files you have to find a way to organise them into meaningful data.Ĭonsider a PDF file from Brocade on VCS Fabric Technical architecture. I might want to classify this into the following: #Review houdahspot 4 pdf In the same way a Cisco MediaNet 4.0 QoS Design Guide might be any of the following:Īnd so on. To solve this problem, you need more than a directory on hard disks, you need a tool that can organise files according to some other schema. I found myself wasting many hours searching for PDFs that I remember reading but cannot find. My toolset for handling this is entirely based around Mac OSX specific features and software that I’ve bought. the app will no longer be able to find Mail message files.In general, I could have scripted any of these tasks but the time taken to write and debug these scripts is more than the cost of the apps that do these tasks. On macOS 10.15 Catalina, Apple Mail messages are not available through the Spotlight index. This includes files in the Library folders but excludes most system files, hidden files, etc. the app can find any file indexed by Spotlight. The app uses the existing Spotlight index.
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