managing Pianotech content information

[alan forsyth]

You can either store your information in a database format under individual topics such as this using Microsoft Access or the likes



or a far more effective way is to store your posts in folders and subfolders in Outlook Express inbox. This way you keep all the attachments and pictures.



Over the years I have accumulated over 4000 Pianotech digests which translates to about 50,000 emails and takes up hardly any space on the hard drive, in my case 350 Mb.

AF
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alan McCoy" <ahm at webband.com>
To: "'Pianotech List'" <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Monday, January 29, 2007 6:39 AM
Subject: RE: managing Pianotech content information


> Or you can create a bunch of folders matching your sensibilities. Like in
> the attached doc. Relying on the archives is IMO not all that effective,
> given that the  subject lines are often an unreliable indicator of the
> actual content of the message. You can search the archives in several ways
> (thread, author, date), but you will often miss what you are looking for.
> Then again you can often stumble across something else interesting. Or not.
> 
> Alan
> 
> --Alan McCoy, RPT
> Inland Northwest Chapter
> Spokane, WA
> ahm at webband.com
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
> Of John M. Formsma
> Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2007 4:14 PM
> To: Pianotech List
> Subject: managing Pianotech content information
> 
> How do you guys group the info that comes through the list so it's 
> relevant to your individual needs?  How do you make it like your own 
> personal "Tips & Tricks" that you can review at any time? 
> 
> I've been saving individual emails in threads, but they get buried 
> quickly if I save a number of posts. And I don't take time to sift 
> through them when I have 200+ emails that aren't arranged in any 
> particular order.
> 
> Possibilities:
> 1. Save them in a document and bookmark them by having a "Table of 
> Contents" thing with hyperlinks to the relevant text.
> 2. Hyperlink to the archives and name the link something like "Aluminum 
> rail, stripped."
> 
> If I use hyperlinks to the archives (which is what I'd like to do), will 
> the archives' info always retain that info at the same place? For 
> example, if I direct the hyperlink to 
> www.ptg.org/archives/relevant-info, will that "relevant-info" always be 
> stored there, or do things get renamed after a number of years?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> JF
>
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