A library also contains some housekeeping files maintained by EagleFiler. That’s why I was intrigued by the lighter touch of EagleFiler, from C-Command (the development house of Michael Tsai, who also writes SpamSieve (see “ Tools We Use: SpamSieve,” 17įebruary 2003) and other utilities I wouldn’t want to be without).ĮagleFiler’s chief document type is called a “library.” You can have as many libraries as you like, and each library is just an ordinary folder in the Finder, containing files that are your data each snippet is simply a file in a standard data format. In nearly two decades of experimenting with ways of storing and retrieving text and other snippets of information, largely documented in the “ Conquer Your Text” series of articles, I’ve found that most applications take a fairly heavyweight approach, requiring me to hand my data completely over to their care, keeping it in a specific place or (even more often) in a document and format specific to the application. #1621: Apple Q3 2022 financials, Slack's new free plan restrictions, which OS features do you use?.#1622: OS feature survey results, Continuity Camera webcam preview, OWC miniStack STX.
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