Brian, more than 20 years ago I used a Blackwell free-text database product
called IdeaList - perhaps it was an update to Archivist, as it was a Windows
application (and I recall version 3.1 ran as a 32-bit application, which was
unheard of sophistication!). It went through a couple more unsuccessful
updates, and a change of ownership, but "died" nearly ten years ago.
If you do not want to proceed to Lightroom (I agree with the recommendation
from Tina - you don't have to use the image editing facilities at all, just
use the keywording facilities), you could revert to IdeaList, as there are
orphaned versions available. You might like to look here:
http://osbloggery.blogspot.co.uk/2007/12/after-idealist.html for some
reasonably up-to-date news from IdeaList users.
Piers
-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Swale [mailto:bj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 11 June 2013 00:06
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] (OM) OT another to my list of questions
As I organise my key photos manually, I wonder what people use to what I
used to do.
In the days when DOS was king I used a program called Archivist which
enabled me to assign a range of key-words to image (numbers) ( all my slides
are uniquely numbered). I could search on any attribute and in the blink of
an eye Archivist would present me with all matches.
Archivist was sold by Blackwells Publishers in the UK, and I got my copy
just before they took it off the market. It is so blazingly fast I wonder
if it is written in machine code.
There is no way I can imagine for me to attach images to the database.
I have used dBase III+ for similar tasks, but not attached to images. And
not recently; I haven't installed it on this machine.
Are there any programs out there that you know of, not attached to any of
the Adobe image editors, that do this sort of categorisation and searching?
Thanks in advance for any info.
Brian Swale
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