INDEX-BASED TEXT RETRIEVAL

An index-based text retrieval program indexes all the words in folders and files you designate.  You can index your entire hard drive, a single folder, a project, or a single file.  Although you can index files in small numbers for text retrieval, you typically index many files.  A text retrieval program provides the following two advantages:

1. You can find words or names in files instantly.   The program does not search through files for your target word.  It searches the index itself.  And since the index is alphabetized, a search can be done on a million words in under a second.
2. You can keep an overview of your writings and materials.   For example, suppose you have thirty chapters in thirty files, along with a few files of notes, and a character named John Doe appears in many files.  Did you forget which chapter has John Doe finding the knife he used on the sacrificial yak?  No problem.  Look in your index.  Click on the word "knife."  Then click on one of the files shown to contain "knife" and you can look at the file in either the built-in editor or your word processor.

 Finders Keepers^TM  gives you index-based text retrieval for under $30.  This is for writers, not mainframe-sized information technology.  So, Finders Keepers^TM is friendly to the non-technical, or the technically tired.

FIND INDEXED WORDS 4 WAYS

You can  search 4 ways through the index:  plain text, regular expression, approximate, and sound-alike.  The regular expression method provides a grep-like search.  The approximate and sound-alike searches enable you to search even when you do not know how a word was spelled in the indexed files.  You can view or edit found files 6 different ways.

FIND STUFF WITHOUT INDEXING

Finders Keepers^TM can perform direct text searches on any files, folders, or drives that you designate.

Let Finders Keepers do the search--you do the thinking!^TM