Roger (
[email protected]) wrote in
It depends on your image content, I'm sure. If spreadsheets work for
you, fine - but it would never work for me.
Spreadsheets, database, or specific programs/apps to do the job. I
tend to think in computerese as that was my profession and where I
have my degree.
It's easy for me to think in the way the programs save and I can
create trees (no pun intended), or rather data trees in spread sheets
or database tables. OTOH creating a full relational table in a
database might be thought of as a daunting task.
In IMatch I'm developing my own category trees and all together I
already have over 3500 categories, and it's not nearly finished yet.
About half of that is a taxonomic tree to properly catalog any living
creature I've photographed and of which I've been able to identify what
it is (as far as it goes, sometimes not closer than a family, but in
some cases it may be a subspecies). Then there are all the travel-
related subjects, with location, ethnic groups, customes, clothing and
decorations, building styles, religion, etc.
I *think* in hierarchies of categories, not just keywords, and IMatch
allows me to use exactly that - perfect "brain match" for me.
Data is stored in columns and rows no mater what the program. Even
multidimensional arrays are really two dimension simulations of the
extra dimensions, but if you haven't spent the last 15 years thinking
in those terms ...<
)
I would agree with you that the IMatch would be far easier to use with
a lot less effort for probably 99% plus of the population.
Most people can't keep track of much more than about half a dozen
categories and are not well enough organized to keep much more than a
dozen even in specific programs. Then when the sub categories get
added all bets are off<
)
The last program I wrote was a database maintenance program that
allowed the user to enter new categories on the fly, as well as enter
and edit information. It also did searches on partial matches such as
names, addresses, and the make and model of airplanes. (It did a
search of a large aviation database) and could even tell you where the
target was parked. I hasten to add that was over 7 years ago and It'd
probably take me quite a while to refresh my skills to that level<
)
I do think for most people the simplest system they can use (that
meets their needs)is best.
Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com