Digital asset management - finding files

The real article is being written and will appear in due course.

Part of a series:

  1. Introduction. About the series.
  2. The key to finding things. Tags.
  3. Browsers. Vivaldi.
  4. Bookmarks. Raindrop.io.
  5. Emails. Outlook.
  6. Files. Everything and XYplorer.
  7. Music. MP3tag and Musicolet.

Searching with Everything

I first take a simple approach, using (e.g.) Windows Explorer to search (or filter). After 10 minutes Windows has found 1821 Word files. Still we wait. A slow search

The savvy approach uses Everything to find 1953 Word files in a fraction of a second:

A fast search

Of course the savvy approach is not just faster, it also reduces the pain of human error; I belatedly realise that I should also search for the old .doc format. Backspace over the x in the Everything search and I find another 301 files. I can spare a fraction of a second.