Plea to fellow researchers: what have you found is the best way to organize documents, particularly photos of docs from archives? Like an idiot Ive been using iPhoto for years as my basic default for saving archival photos, and Ive got thousands upon thousands of images in there. The program is a cumbersome monstrosity, though, very difficult to organize/tag/locate docs, etc. I tried Filemaker years ago, but the learning curve was too steep and I wasnt willing to put in the time to learn how to set up my own database. Ive used Zotero intermittently but Im not sure it does everything Id like it to do. I just tried Evernote but it seems like their data limits are such that I cant just move all of my images over to that in a workable fashion. Im sure there are alternatives, but mainly I want something where I can transfer years of archival images over to a new set up, retain the basic organization I have so far (my events in iPhoto basically match visits to archives and particular collections/folders/etc.), and then tag, annotate, etc. The biggest appeal of Evernote was its OCR capability, which makes photos of written documents text-searchable, but again I would run up against the data limits (I think its 1G/mo even for the paid version, which wouldnt get me anywhere close to where Id need to be in terms of transferring all these images from iPhoto). Im not very technically adept so maybe theres an easy answer Im missing. Any and all comments and suggestions most welcome
Posted on: Sun, 10 Aug 2014 15:47:55 +0000
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