Ah the joys of technology – I can have pretty much my whole life all wrapped up in my notebook. Yes, that does sound pretty sad but then it does at least have a pretty big hard drive as, the theory goes, there’s a lot to store. As with anything that seems simple, there’s a catch: finding it again.
I’m one of those people that never deletes an e-mail, no matter how trivial it may seem at the time. I learnt this the tough way a long time ago when I couldn’t retrieve a whole bunch of e-mails that become really crucial. Ignoring e-mails for the moment, we move onto other files (yes, like my life quite possibly also far too much work related). While I’m pretty good at filing files in relevant folders I sometimes find myself in a situation where a file belongs in 2 places, which makes searching for it later on a real pain.
I know what you’re thinking…. “technical dinosaur, there are plenty of great desktop search tools out there”. Well that would be the answer but the problem that I have experienced with them is that they are a death knell to your machine’s speed. I know this because a few months ago I went through 3 rebuilds of my machine, 2 with desktop search (Google: loved it – note the past tense) and 1 without. Once I figured out that the indexing on the search was killing my machine (particularly at start-up) it made the choice for me: no search.
My kingdom for that (fill in the blank) I’m (still) looking for….
