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INDEX-BASED TEXT RETRIEVAL
 Finders Keepers™ offers index-based text
retrieval for under $30. This is for writers, not gigantic
departments with mainframe-sized
information technology. So, Finders Keepers is
friendly to the
non-technical, or the technically tired.
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
a single file, you typically index many files. A
text retrieval program
provides the following two advantages:
- You can find words or names in files
instantly. The text retrieval does not search
through files for your target word. It searches the index
itself. And since the index is ordered, that is, alphabetized, a
search can be done on a million words in under a second.
- You can keep an overview of your
writings and materials. For example, suppose you have
thirty chapters in thirty respective files, along with a few files of
notes and research, and a character named John Doe appears in many of
the files. Use the index to find every reference to John Doe in
your 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 selected word processor.
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 of
the index. The approximate and sound-alike searches enable you to
search the index even when you do not know how to spell a word,
or it has been misspelled in the indexed files. You can
view or
edit found files 6 different ways.
FIND STUFF WITHOUT INDEXING
Finders KeepersTM does not have to use the
index in order to search. It can do text searches
on any files, folders, or drives that you designate.
Let Finders Keepers do
the search--you do the thinking!TM
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