Example Libraries

I use the following libraries:

  • Filing - Miscellaneous news articles and reference information that I want to save. It’s mostly Web archives with some PDFs.
  • Financial - Receipts, rebates, order confirmations, credit card and bank statements, invoices, tax forms (blank and completed), research for major purchases.
  • Lists - Archives for the tons of mailing lists that I subscribe to. Searching technical mailing list archives is often a better way to answer questions than asking Google. Some lists I read completely. Others I archive if I think they might be useful someday, e.g. a technology that I think I’m going to want to learn.
  • Mentions - Web pages, articles, podcasts, etc. that discuss my software products.
  • Personal - Archive of non-list e-mails, including both sent and received messages.
  • Publications - Electronic publications, mostly PDFs.
  • Spam - All the spam messages I’ve received since early 2002.
  • SpamSieve - Articles and academic papers pertaining to spam filtering and text classification, as well as a collection of interesting spam messages that I’ve annotated.

Note that the libraries are mostly separated this way because this is how I had organized my files in the Finder before EagleFiler existed. At some point, I may combine a few of them, e.g. so that mail, Web archives, and PDFs pertaining to the same topic are grouped together.

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