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<p>When I find something useful, I drag it into file in my email program I've named Piano Related. Can't say as I go back to look much...<br /><br />David Ilvedson, RPT<br />Pacifica, CA 94044<br /><br /></p>
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<hr />Original message<br />From: "alan forsyth"
<alan@forsythalan.wanadoo.co.uk> </alan@forsythalan.wanadoo.co.uk><br />To: "Pianotech List"
<pianotech@ptg.org> </pianotech@ptg.org><br />Received: 1/29/2007 5:36:01 AM<br />Subject: Re: managing Pianotech content information<br /><br />
<div><strong><font face="Arial" size="2">You can either store your information in a database format under individual topics such as this using Microsoft Access or the likes</font></strong></div>
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<div><strong><font face="Arial" size="2">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.</font></strong></div>
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<div><strong><font face="Arial" size="2">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.</font></strong></div>
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<div><strong><font face="Arial" size="2">AF</font></strong></div>
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<div><strong><font face="Arial" size="2">From: "Alan McCoy" <</font></strong><a href="mailto:ahm@webband.com"><strong><font face="Arial" size="2">ahm@webband.com</font></strong></a><strong><font face="Arial" size="2">></font></strong></div>
<div><strong><font face="Arial" size="2">To: "'Pianotech List'" <</font></strong><a href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org"><strong><font face="Arial" size="2">pianotech@ptg.org</font></strong></a><strong><font face="Arial" size="2">></font></strong></div>
<div><strong><font face="Arial" size="2">Sent: Monday, January 29, 2007 6:39 AM</font></strong></div>
<div><strong><font face="Arial" size="2">Subject: RE: managing Pianotech content information</font></strong></div>
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<div><strong><br /><font face="Arial" size="2"> </font></strong></div><strong><font face="Arial" size="2">> Or you can create a bunch of folders matching your sensibilities. Like in<br />> the attached doc. Relying on the archives is IMO not all that effective,<br />> given that the subject lines are often an unreliable indicator of the<br />> actual content of the message. You can search the archives in several ways<br />> (thread, author, date), but you will often miss what you are looking for.<br />> Then again you can often stumble across something else interesting. Or not.<br />> <br />> Alan<br />> <br />> --Alan McCoy, RPT<br />> Inland Northwest Chapter<br />> Spokane, WA<br />> </font></strong><a href="mailto:ahm@webband.com"><strong><font face="Arial" size="2">ahm@webband.com</font></strong></a><br /><strong><font face="Arial" size="2">> <br />> -----Original Message-----<br />> From: </font></strong><a href="mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org"><strong><font face="Arial" size="2">pianotech-bounces@ptg.org</font></strong></a><strong><font face="Arial" size="2"> [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On Behalf<br />> Of John M. Formsma<br />> Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2007 4:14 PM<br />> To: Pianotech List<br />> Subject: managing Pianotech content information<br />> <br />> How do you guys group the info that comes through the list so it's <br />> relevant to your individual needs? How do you make it like your own <br />> personal "Tips & Tricks" that you can review at any time? <br />> <br />> I've been saving individual emails in threads, but they get buried <br />> quickly if I save a number of posts. And I don't take time to sift <br />> through them when I have 200+ emails that aren't arranged in any <br />> particular order.<br />> <br />> Possibilities:<br />> 1. Save them in a document and bookmark them by having a "Table of <br />> Contents" thing with hyperlinks to the relevant text.<br />> 2. Hyperlink to the archives and name the link something like "Aluminum <br />> rail, stripped."<br />> <br />> If I use hyperlinks to the archives (which is what I'd like to do), will <br />> the archives' info always retain that info at the same place? For <br />> example, if I direct the hyperlink to <br />> </font></strong><a href="http://www.ptg.org/archives/relevant-info"><strong><font face="Arial" size="2">www.ptg.org/archives/relevant-info</font></strong></a><strong><font face="Arial" size="2">, will that "relevant-info" always be <br />> stored there, or do things get renamed after a number of years?<br />> <br />> Thanks in advance,<br />> <br />> JF<br />></font></strong>
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