First Look: Doo document manager
Most of us have evolved our own way of managing files. Some are obsessive about folders and folder hierarchies. Others are more free-form, relying on search to find the files we need. There’s a new free document-management tool for the Mac, called Doo, that could help both the filers and the searchers keep track of and find their files.
The basic premise is simple: You first tell Doo where your files are. Those locations can include your Documents folder, obviously, but also any folder on your hard drive or attached storage. Doo can also organize files stored on Google Drive and Dropbox, as well as email attachments in Gmail and other IMAP services (so if someone sends you an invoice as an attachment, it’ll show up in the app). You can also add files to Doo's database manually or via scanner or camera.
Once Doo knows where your files are, it then indexes them. By “index,” I mean it not only gathers the basic metadata (name, extension, date modified, and so on), but—if a file is in one of the file formats Doo supports—it can also index the contents. Those formats include the usual suspects (plain text, PDFs, Office and iWork docs, and HTML for example), but also some unexpected ones: Thanks to built-in OCR, it can index the text in image files, too. Indexing is done automatically and painlessly; when you add new docs, they get indexed without you doing a thing.
Doo lets you filter and sort files in all kinds of ways.
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