Thank you, I probably need to make such a document too.  Even if I don't
have a question about something today, I will most likely have it in the
future so it would be good to have a searchable reference available.

Hans

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Hans:   I don't mess around with emails at all, to tell you the truth.  I
have 2 Word documents, called RBaseArticles and Version7.   Going back many
years, if there was an email with something I thought was good, I'd the text
into my RBaseArticles document.  I have separate sections with headers like
"General installation, migration", "PlugIns, UDFs", "Date / Time functions",
"Network problems".    That document is 22 pages.  Very easy to search.

Then when Version 7 came out, I started a new document for just that, again
with headers.  If I wrote a nice piece of code and wanted to make sure I
could find it and reuse it, I put that into the document too.  This document
is now 174 pages and is invaluable to me!   I've thought of selling it ....

If someone had time on their hands, they could start up a Word document by
going thru their emails.   As for the PDFs, I skim the ones that I have,
rename them to something easier for me to identify.   If there's only a
small part of the PDF that's "new or cool", then I copy that part into my
Word document and erase the PDF.   Or I may put a note in my Word document
referring to the PDF document by name.

Karen
  



        What is the best way of keeping track of all the PDFs with R:Base
        documentation?  
        
        Not any less important, how do people keep track of all the e-mail?
I have
        it in an Outlook folder from which I hope to use search or find with
        Outlook. 
        
        The info is becoming voluminous and I am naturally bad in organizing
that
        kind of thing.   
        
        Thanks for any suggestions,
        
        ---
        Hans Manhave

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