Google Search

I’ve been a digital pack-rat for more than a decade on the web, so keeping track of my reference material used to be tough. Harold Jarche’s post about his set-up for personal knowledge management reminded me to share the handiest tool I’ve found for making my blogs, wikis, files, and past mail more accessible.

Now I find things with Google Desktop Search. It’s wickedly fast and will unearth content from inside pdfs and deleted emails.

Not only does searching my drives save time in and of itself; it also simplifies maintenance. Items I once stuffed into hard-coded sub-directories can reside in a bucket.