Would a desktop document management application be something that people would want?

[Steve Naidamast]

To my knowledge, Google Desktop is not a document management system but a word-processor...

Steve Naidamast Sr. Software Engineer Black Falcon Software, Inc. blackfalconsoftware@outlook.com

[obermd]

Windows search is sufficient for most people, especially if they turn on TIFF indexing.

[Marc Clifton]

I'd want it web based so documents can be shared between the four computers I have in my home office, not to mention with others. And seeing as they are all laptops, having this web-based so I can be adding / updating documents from anywhere...well, you get the idea.

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[markrlondon]

Yes, definitely interested. This field is of great interest to me. You're not planning to open source it though, from what you say?

[Richard Andrew x64]

I'd be interested if it had integrated scanner support.

The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.

[Lost User]

Then your knowledge is lacking.

Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: "If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.

[Steve Naidamast]

Google Desktop is not a document management system, no matter how you slice or dice it. You should review what these types of systems do. For example, SharePoint is a document management system for the enterprise. Its features in no way resemble anything that Google Desktop would provide except for the search mechanism.

Steve Naidamast Sr. Software Engineer Black Falcon Software, Inc. blackfalconsoftware@outlook.com

[Lost User]

Steve Naidamast wrote:

Google Desktop is not a document management system

Depends on your definition.

Steve Naidamast wrote:

For example, SharePoint is a document management system for the enterprise. Its features in no way resemble anything that Google Desktop would provide except for the search mechanism.

Ehr, and what? So you got a hardon for Document Management and SharePoint. Wanna try to explain what is wrong with Google Documents?

Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: "If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.

[kalberts]

If you provide access to the user documentation for the system, you might see some interest in it.

[Slacker007]

Why do you have to always be a jerk, Eddy?

[Lost User]

Do personal users actually think about organizing their files? I think it all goes to Documents in some form.

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[Steve Naidamast]

I don't really know. That is why I put the question out to the forum. From the answers I have been seeing it appears that outside of researchers, students, and the like there would be little call for my application. Had there been more positive feedback, I would have considered upgrading the application to a multi-user, department level application using something like WCF as the communication medium.

Steve Naidamast Sr. Software Engineer Black Falcon Software, Inc. blackfalconsoftware@outlook.com

[Private Dobbs]

Doubtful. Post your project on github or as an article here on Code Project. You can then get download stats to find out if there is any interest. If so then launch a commercial version.

[Cpichols]

You mean like grep -r "search text" * ?

[Sharp Ninja]

Not all document types are searchable as plain text.

[Sharp Ninja]

How about the fact that Google Docs are barely compatible with each other and don't allow live content embedding between documents.

[Moo v This]

What does your document management system do? Store docs? Windows does that. What else?

[rwprice]

Yes, I think there could be a use for such an application. I am a big user of One Note, and I love it, but I realize I'm vulnerable to the One Note database getting corrupted and me losing everything. If, instead of One Note, I kept my information in various file formats such as Word, PowerPoint, and Excel, then a document management application that allowed me to access those files as easily as if they were together like in One Note would be great. I would perhaps have to keep files in a particular folder in order for them to be scanned together, but it would have the advantage of being independent, standard formats (even text files and PDFs) and I wouldn't be so dependent on a single application. Do you have any screen shots available?

[Matt Bond]

I wouldn't be too hard on yourself. Your informal survey has a biased population (from a science of surveys point of view). I do keep my personal documents managed manually. I also work on an enterprise level document manager (called Doc Man), which is just a small piece of the overall program. From what I've seen, I'm the exception for how well organized my documents are. I find Windows Search frustratingly stupid. I use grepWin (freeware) to deal with that, which only searches plaintext documents. If I had a binary searcher, or one that could search PDF's, Open Office files, and Microsoft Office files, then I would be set. If I had to manually tag items, then I wouldn't bother with it. That's an extra layer of work that wouldn't be worth the effort. Hope that helps.

Bond Keep all things as simple as possible, but no simpler. -said someone, somewhere

[Lintunen]

I already use a document management application by the name of Mendeley (that also syncs across devices) and it's free.