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54 From Nisus Compact’s 1992 User’s Guide: File Clerk
Figure 60
The hierarchical file system
There is no simple solution to your problem, so you make some arbitrary decision. Some weeks
later (after many more similar arbitrary decisions) you have the same difficulty in deciding where
you put it, and so waste a lot of time looking for it. Sometimes, having exhausted your patience, you
give up and resort to some general Find function. This requires you to know something about the
file name and you may have to look through the whole disk, which takes time.
The Solution
Nisus File Clerk introduces a new Catalog: the File Clerk Catalog. In this Catalog, you define the file
lists by describing them, using lists of descriptive terms (called Categories) which you prepare.
Now, in Nisus, using the File Clerk Catalog, you can tell your computer which documents you want
to see. For example, specify all articles you have written on the economy and the election. Then, no
matter in which folders you saved them, the computer would list their names to pick from. On
another occasion you may want all letters to the editor about the election. This flexibility and
intuitive approach to file storage is currently only available in Nisus Compact through File Clerk
Catalog.
With the File Clerk Catalog you still need to choose a folder in which you initially save your file. This
decision, however, does not influence the way you will store it and retrieve it using the File Clerk
Catalog. You do not need to remember which folder you picked.