What is FilePick©?

Does it have search features on the program?

ie.. I want to find all images associated with boats can I just type in boats and will it then bring up all my files with boats and with that when I enter a file I know I can associate a picture with it but could you also associate a key word with the file to use in searches later?

Not that I have found - but it does sort your files alphabetically by name and having the pic has helped me out alot. I have close to 3000 patterns, I think. I am still moving them from 4 different computers to my new one.

I never cared before because I got tired of looking through all of those files and having to open all of the ones that I thought were the right ones. Having the pic makes a huge difference. The software also saves the filepath so that when you double click on the one you want it opens it in the Designer software.

Note: the gentleman that wrote the software is "Robert" he signed up last night and will be on here today, you might be able to set up a chat with him and I'm sure he would be glad to answer all of your questions.

Jason Allen wrote: but it does sort your files alphabetically by name [/i]

Hmmm. I guess you could sort our your own and classify them in Files then. Look forward to catching up later and I just might just to send him whether or not it might be possible.

When you begin a hobby you have a small number of designs and it's easy to keep track of them, but as you continue you get to the point where it becomes difficult to remember what you called the project you did months or even years earlier. Sometimes you want to use a previous project as a base for a new creation and the only way to find it is to open up each file one at a time. The more files you have, the more time consuming this becomes. When your interest in the hobby expands you start to collect project instructions from the internet which are quite often in PDF format. The PDF file may have several projects in it and you may only be interested in the item on the last page of the file. So that you not only have to open the file, you have to go through each page in it to find the instructions you want.

That's where FilePick comes in. First of all, FilePick lets you catalog your files with your own descriptions so if a file name is just box.xxx you can add a description like - Carved jewelry boxes done for Mom and Diane. The PDF files that may have several projects in them can include a description of the contents in the PDF file. When you are looking for a file you have a much better idea of what's in it before you open it.

While that's good as far as it goes, what really helps is pictures. FilePick will let you store a small picture of your file. So if you have hundreds or thousands of drawings you can now scroll through the FilePick listing and see what's in the file without having to open it.

When you initially add your files to the FilePick Listing, you can use FilePick to Browse to a project folder on your computer select all the files and bring them into FilePick all at once.

If you right click on the default picture shown to the right of the listing, and click OPEN, FilePick will launch the appropriate software and load the indicated file. What is really useful is that at the same time FilePick will also launch the built in Snip Tool which will allow you to simply click Begin and drag the cross hairs over anything on screen to use as a picture.

So you can use your drawing as a picture, or go to page 5 in a PDF file and use a picture there. As soon as you let go of the mouse button the Snip Tool dialog pops back up next to your mouse and you can click Copy. FilePick will immediately be back onscreen with your selected image. Click Save and you now have a picture matched to the file.

From now on when you scroll down your list of entries, the pictures you have selected are matched up with the file names and descriptions and you can find what you are looking for without having to open file after file.

I'm Robert's wife and I do Beta testing, tech support, and correspondence for our software and I have used the software extensively to catalog all of my lace designs, so I can probably answer most of your questions.

To date, no one has requested a search function and as Jason has mentioned it does sort the files in alphabetical order. If you press any letter key it will go to the first file matching that letter.

You can also arrange your files in different folders by category. If you have a file that fits into more than one category you can just enter it in different folders and FilePick will use the same picture that you already associated it with.

The program has just recently been released and new features will be added as we become familiar with what people need.

Will future updates be included free to those that have purchased it or will there be charge for future updates.

Example of what I was looking for is in the pattern store where you can type in a key word and certain patterns show up. When you assign a file and then a pic to it will it be possible to add key words to that file?

Reasons: I have drawings and images concerning boats, some might be military some might be something simple like a canoe. I might have category like military for those ships but it would not bring up the canoe I might have in a category such as wilderness. Situation arises where I need to look for all ships and boats and would like to put in a key word like ship or boat that would bring them all up no matter what category you have them in.

Program looks like something that would work well, just curious to future updates.

We may offer future FilePick updates for free provided that the updates don't require extensive programming. For example if several weeks or months are involved in programming then there may be a nominal fee to update.

You can create folders in FilePick to separate your different interests. The folders are not created on your computer and are created for FilePick listing purposes only. The path to all your files remains unchanged and no files are moved around on your computer. The listing in FilePick along with it's folders can be sorted alphabetically. If you press a keyboard letter key, then the listing immediately scrolls to that entry. Press the 'B' key and the listing will scroll to every entry that starts with the letter B.

A keyword search feature may be added in future however at this point we have not received any requests for this feature to be added. We did not want to re-invent Windows since currently Windows search capabilities allows you to easily locate a file on your computer and even locate text within a file.

We greatly appreciate customer input and want to design our software to work in a convenient and useful manner so that customers enjoy using the program.

If you have purchased and use the FilePick software regularly we would be pleased to hear from you and consider adding any additional features you would like to see.