Most of the web pages on a vendor site aren’t the core technical information that I’m looking for. Once I’ve found a useful document, white paper, technical reference, product manual or whatever then I will download it to keep for reference. Why download it ?īig companies have big websites. And big websites have things changing and moving, and a bookmark isn’t useful two or three years later because the content has moved. It’s frustrating to recall that read about something but cannot find it. If it’s a blog page, then blogs often disappear when people change lives and decide to stop paying for the hosting. I’ve learned that you can’t rely on the Internet to be a reliable content store. So, now that you have downloaded a bunch of PDF files you have to find a way to organise them into meaningful data.Ĭonsider a PDF file from Brocade on VCS Fabric Technical architecture. I might want to classify this into the following: #Review houdahspot 4 pdf In the same way a Cisco MediaNet 4.0 QoS Design Guide might be any of the following:Īnd so on. ![]() To solve this problem, you need more than a directory on hard disks, you need a tool that can organise files according to some other schema. I found myself wasting many hours searching for PDFs that I remember reading but cannot find. My toolset for handling this is entirely based around Mac OSX specific features and software that I’ve bought. ![]() In general, I could have scripted any of these tasks but the time taken to write and debug these scripts is more than the cost of the apps that do these tasks.
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