I keep all my interesting files underneath one directory. Of course files are nicely placed in sub directories so that files on the same topic are in the same directory. However after doing this for many many years, i find myself spending more and more time searching for a file. Especially if i only remember part of the file name. What I used to do was:
find /the/directory | grep 'part' | grep 'another part' But what i really wanted to see was the files in order: last created first. Now i know you can do all that with find and sort etc etc. but i got tired of that and now use evolution..... Here is how: whenever i have added enough new files (or daily via crontab) i run a script called mktime. This perl script creates a new evolution local folder called time. In this folder is a message for every single file underneath my directory. The Send date of the message is the creation date of the file. The subject line is the full name of the file. The from part contains the year month, day and weekday the file was created. The message body contains an html link to the file so when i click on it the file is opened in my browser. I can now do the following: 1. click on the Date column and sort the files/messages by date: oldest first or newest first 2. i can use Subject contains filter to only show .txt files 3. i can use Sender contains filter to show all files created on sunday 4. i can use subject contains filter to show all files containing the strings ".xls" and "money" (which will list all my excel spread sheets that have money in the name (none in my case). 5. etc etc If anyone is interested let me know and then i can post my 113 line perl script. I am sure that with some vfolders added things can be come quite interesting... PS: the time mbox file is really small: each message takes up less than 1000 bytes _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
