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A Whole New Genre of File Manager?
If you've used a computer-based calendar or diary before, such as Outlook or Google, you'll be familiar with the sort of view shown in the screenshot below. But take another look at the picture, because this isn't my calendar. The program I'm using is called Nemo Docs and it's actually a file manager. I can view the files that have recently been edited on my PC by day, week, month or year. Needless to say, double-clicking a file opens it for editing with the default application for that file type. You can also filter by file type, such as documents, images, PDF files, presentations, and so on.
It even indexes your files to provide a full text search facility too.
So next time you're trying to remember the name of that spreadsheet you were editing last Wednesday morning, this is the program you need.
Nemo Docs is free, runs on Windows XP and above, and is only a 0.5 MB download (though you'll need .NET v4 too, if you don't already have it). Get it from www.nemo-docs.com.
My thanks to user "Panzer" for bring this great Hot Find to my attention.
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You should note that it addition to .NET 4, it also requires Windows Desktop Search.
Anybody figure out if this can index multiple folder levels? I've got tons and I sure hope I don't have to tell it to look in each one! Guess I am too organized! But it works great on XP so far.
I posted this question at their site so we'll see what they say.
Nice find!
It royally failed on my XP machine.
Poorly documented.
Poorly supported.
Not ready for prime time.
First Gizmo recommendation that has been a BUST.
Waiting to hear from developer to see if they have a solution but I can't recommend to anyone. The other "topics" and solutions on their system would indicate this is not a package to recommend.
A Whole New Genre of File Manager?
If so, it certainly didn't begin with Nemo Docs.
Are Graham and I the only ones who've heard of Outlook's Journal?
It will be interesting to see if Nemo Docs enjoys more success than Outlook Journal did. When I first got the latter, I loved it; but its usefulness faded for me, and when MS subsequently left it turned off by default, I left it off.
Of course, MS Office isn't free, but the issue is the concept implied by the article's title.
Yes, it's similar to Outlook's journal. But as the Nemo people point out on their site, it works with more file formats than the Outlook journal does.
Just downloaded. Looks very...no VERY handy. Thanks for sharing.
The .NET frameworks won't noticeably slow your i3, but if you're still using your Pentium M laptop you'd better believe that you'll see a performance penalty. Even on your i3 you've gotta ask yourself, If this is the only app that requires .NET v4, is it worth 1-2 GB of disk space?
"Minimum disk space:
o x86 – 850 MB
o x64 – 2 GB"
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=9cfb2d51-5ff4-4491-b0e5-b386f32c0992&displaylang=en&pf=true
Reporting this as "only a 0.5 MB download" is wildly misleading - please, if you're going to recommend apps that require .NET, report the size of the required .NET framework, too.
And fanboyz, please don't equate .NET, which is supported on one platform, with Java, which is supported on all, and don't have the temerity to suggest that the Common Language Runtime is in any way equivalent to a database manager like SQL. Technical ignorance is only excusable to a point.
Some of my docs are created on my machine, some online (Google docs). I would like a file manager that would integrate the two.
Nemo Documents can do exactly that for you :-)
No it doesn't. I've just tried it. Lists only docs created with Word etc and not any from Google docs. However, maybe I am doing something wrong Anders Rune Jensen, so perhaps you would let me and Anon know exactly how you get it to display docs created online? Thank you.
You have to put in your google credentials in the settings, for Nemo Documents to know what files you have. You get to the settings through the task bar icon in the right corner of the screen.
@apunam
appears to affect winXP only; win7 not affected
Hi, I think you were referring to me? Are you talking about slowness due to .NET 4.0 in XP? I am actually using XP, and having installed all .NET versions. I don't experience any slowness.
I think I will check this out for sure.
Criteria for rating it's usefulness will be by comparing to the Journal in Outlook (which shouldn't be too hard in terms of the scope of documents it can record)
Not addressing the value of the program, but just a word of caution on installing the .NET Framework 4 client profile. A google search on "dot net 4 client profile slows down computer" will give all sorts of horror stories about greatly extended boot times, etc. Be ready to unistall it if it gives you this problem, as it did me.
I'm not sure why this is a pre-requisite for more and more programs (it was a Garmin program for me), but my quick layman's view is that it is programming laziness on the part of the creator.
Ohgod... here we go again.
There will always be unscretly anti-Microsoft, secretly-or-not pro-Linux and open-source people out there who will take every opportunity to decry the .NET framework...
...and pretty much anything else that isn't nailed down to the Windows OS (along with the Windows OS itself).
I've been in this game for over three decades. I've now seen pretty much everything. So, believe me when I say that Windows is insufferably clunky, and badly behaved and sloppily written (as are several Linux distros, too) even before the .NET framework is added. The 4.x version of it has added nothing negative, to speak of, to the already bad situation.
And though, of course, we all prefer completely self-contained executables, code which requires frameworks or runtimes or whatever is all over the place -- in the Linux world, too -- and so, really...
...please... at long last... give it a rest.
Gregg L. DesElms
Napa, California USA
This would be like saying that a programmer using Java which requires a Java Virtual Machine / JRE or Java SDK is laziness, or that a C or VB programmer using shared runtime DLLs is lazy.
Programmers use the language of their choice based on either their knowledge of the language, or specific features and libraries in the language that are better or more convenient for the program functions they want to provide.
By the same flawed logic, a programmer who uses a database would be lazy for using a database like SQLite or for more heavy duty databases, Oracle, Microsoft SQL server or even MySQL. Not true at all. Programmers use existing libraries and external services for efficiency and quality, using "best of breed" existing services, not because of laziness.
Laziness may not be the correct word or only word. If there is a touch of laziness, "inept" may be another word that could be used along with it
I have been a fan of Steve Gibson and his small but effective applications since the apple ll. I believe he may have been the person who coined the word "bloatware"--which describes many programs now in circulation
from Wikepedia:
Gibson is an advocate of assembly language programming, and prides himself on writing smaller applications mostly in Intel x86 assembly language, including much of the code of the SpinRite hard disk utility used from the beginning of the PC era. He is one of several advocates of optimizing computer programs and reducing the size of their executables.
This is false. Don't believe everything you find on Google. I have .NET 2.0, 3.5, and 4.0 installed on my PC, and there is no slowdown because of these frameworks. Some programs require these frameworks to function, because they built using them.
True. It's the same as saying a registry cleaner will speed up your PC :)
Hear, hear
Wow, this program looks like it would be incredibly helpful for keeping track of my work. Thanks so much for pointing it out to us!
My thanks to you and Panzer for bringing this to MY attention! You can do this, pretty much, if you are really handy with your desktop/business search engine of choice but this is miles better. In a backhand way, it also tells (recalls for you) what the heck you working on last Wednesday. Very handy for a bad day.
Working across multiple machines (home PC and own company laptop) it is easy to lose track of which bit of kit you edited "that doc" on and when. This is a Godsend for me.
Indeed. It's also handy if, say, your PC crashes and you need to reassure yourself that your backup from last week includes all the important stuff. If you know which documents you worked on between taking the backup and the PC crashing, you can do just that.
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