The search facilities written into modern operating systems have - to date - failed to address this adequately, particularly when these systems treat all files as being of equivalent value, system files included.

Various publishers have started to address this problem and arguably the most useful approach is that which enables you to catalogue various files using keywords. Tagging particular files or groups of files with a range of keywords (of your own choosing), then gives this sort of software the ability to retrieve specific sets of files.

This keyword approach is a major step forward. But, there’s a downside here since most of these solutions are format-specific. Once package works with photographs or images, another with documents, another with MP3 and audio formats. Unless you go seriously up-market with corporate archiving solutions, managing keyword retrieval across a range of files is hard to achieve.

DotRational Indexer: file retrieval made easy!

That’s why I created DotRational Indexer, an inexpensive Windows application for keyword tagging a range of file formats for rapid retrieval. This handles all the usual image, video and audio file formats, as well as Word and Acrobat documents. If you have thousands of files and are beginning to lose track of what’s where, Indexer will help you get back in control. Give the trial version a spin!