File Management Software for PhD

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For my PhD I am accumulating thousands pdf and word documents from with lecture notes, transcriptions, powerpoint slides, and handouts.I also have several thousand recordings of lectures & interviews.I am searching for a software which would allow me to upload all of these, cross-match them, tag them, add metadata, and be able to search and organize them by date, location, audience, or topic.Ideally, this software would enable the creation of composite objects made up of multiple recordings, documents, tags, and metadata. For example, a composite object could be a lecture a person gave in Argentina last May and it would include:- A recording from the speaker's iPhone - A recording from the sound system where the Spanish translation is more clear - A recording of a French translation made recently - A pdf document of the speaker's notes - A pdf document of someone's transcription in English - A pdf document of a machine-generated transcription in Spanish - A brief summary - Tags such as: Big Data, Twitter, MongoDB - Metadata such as: - Delivered: May 15, 2022 - Event: DataCrunch Conference - Audience: University StudentsAn added bonus would be the ability to have user accounts with different access permissions to view, download, and edit these listings.Does such a software exist? I've been searching and searching and haven't found one. I used to write software, so worst case I could maybe make it myself.

photoGrant · Accepted Answer

Are you self hosting? FileRun is pretty good at getting you close.https://github.com/filerun

jacquesm · Answer

This plug-in may be helpful:https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/memex/Ambar/Yaci/Cider may be useful as well depending on your workflow.Another option would be to use something like drive.google.com.

satya71 · Answer

Use Zotero ( https://www.zotero.org/ )It also integrates with your library to download papers.

nashashmi · Answer

I think Notion has what you are looking for. But that thing is a monster in terms of features. And I am still trying to figure out how best to use it.

File Management Software for PhD

Are you self hosting? FileRun is pretty good at getting you close.
https://github.com/filerun

This plug-in may be helpful:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/memex/
Ambar/Yaci/Cider may be useful as well depending on your workflow.
Another option would be to use something like drive.google.com.

Use Zotero ( https://www.zotero.org/ )
It also integrates with your library to download papers.

I think Notion has what you are looking for. But that thing is a monster in terms of features. And I am still trying to figure out how best to use it.