RE: Off Topic: X1. Was: NB version 8.0 beta available now!

["Felix Grant" <felix>]

I use it (GDS), though not alone. Most of the time it's very good; I
wouldn't now be without it. Some of the time I shift to another tool that's
more effective in a particular situation.

It benefits from Google's market dominance - for instance, plugins provide
specific extension in directions most others (CopernicDS, YahooDS, etc)
don't offer, including one to display Wolfram mathematics notebooks in
native symbolic format.

There is a problem combining different filetypes which share the same
extension, though ... for example, installing the Wolfram Notebook indexer
(Wolfram notebooks use the .nb file extension) made Notabene files invisible
to GDS. This probably won't affect most of you ... but it does me. On the
other hand, Orbis now indexes every new NB file anyway, which is beautiful.

Felix


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Subject: Re: Off Topic: X1. Was: NB version 8.0 beta available now!


Has anyone been using Google Desktop?  What do you think?

--Eric

Lavenda, Robert H. wrote:
> Keith,
>
> I've been using X1 for some time, and find it quite remarkable. First,
> it's astonishingly fast--one of those programs that finds things as you
> type them in so that by the time you've finished typing, the files are
> displayed. Second, it indexes e-mail, attachments, contacts, and files
> on the hard drive and can present them separately (that is, all e-mail
> files, all attachments, all files) or together. It has built in filters
> for photos and music extensions, so you can limit your searches to those
> formats. It indexes file contents as well as file names. In a search, it
> presents a list of files that include the search string on the left side
> of the screen and the file contents on the right side with the search
> string highlighted. Thus far, if X1 can't find it, it's not there.
>
> You can download a 15-day a trial version from www.x1.com, and that
> should give you a very good idea as to whether it will meet your needs.
> I think you'll be quite impressed.
>
> Rob
>
> Robert H. Lavenda
> Professor of Anthropology
> Co-Chair, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
> St. Cloud State University
> 320-308-3034
> lavenda@stcloudstate.edu
>