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How to find files inside ZIP files or emails

Sometimes, important photos, documents etc. lie hidden inside “compound” ZIP files (or 7z, ISO or gzip files). Often, we don’t even know that a file we’re looking for is embedded inside something else! For example, when we download multiple files from Google Drive, we get a single ZIP file. Files aren’t the only “compound” types – emails can also contain embedded attachments. Older files and photos are especially likely to have been emailed around rather than shared via cloud storage providers. We often remember something about the file we’re looking for but nothing about the compound file/email which contains it. […]

Integration With Other Tools & Next Steps

In this post, I’ll discuss how Knit search integrates with other tools you might use to handle your files, emails, social media posts, appointments etc. I’ll also discuss some planned next steps for Knit Search. This is the 5th and final part of my blog series related to finding your personal digital content. Other posts in this series include: Part 1: Intro to the search problem and Advanced Search. Part 2: Quick Search and its powerful search syntax. Part 3: Customizing the search results display. Part 4: Other ways to find your content. Part 5: this post – Integration with […]

Other Ways To Find Content

In this post, I’ll talk about the ways in which Knit helps you quickly find your digital content without issuing a search for it. This is the 4th part of my blog series related to finding your personal digital content. Other posts in this series include: Part 1: Intro to the search problem and Advanced Search. Part 2: Quick Search and its powerful search syntax. Part 3: Customizing the search results display. Part 4: this post – Non-search ways to find your content. Part 5: Integration with other tools & next steps.   Some of the methods described in this […]

Digital Manager’s Search Results

In this post, I’ll talk about the Knit search results display and how you can customize it further to quickly find the file, email, post etc. that you searched for. This is the 3rd part of my blog series related to finding your personal digital content. Other posts in this series include: Part 1: Intro to the search problem and Advanced Search. Part 2: Quick Search and its powerful search syntax. Part 3: this post – Customizing the search results display. Part 4: Other ways to find your content. Part 5: Integration with other tools & next steps. Knit Search […]

Digital Manager’s Quick Search

In this post, I will describe how the Datamaton Digital Manager’s Quick Search can quickly find an file, email, text message, appointment or contact regardless of where it is stored. I’ll also describe the powerful search syntax it supports, so you can issue sophisticated searches by directly typing into the search box. This is the 2nd part of my blog series related to finding your personal digital content. Other posts in this series include: Part 1: Intro to the search problem and Advanced Search. Part 2: this post – Quick Search and its powerful search syntax. Part 3: Customizing the […]

Finding Personal Digital Content

Finding a file, email, appointment or social media post months or years later is a constant and frustrating battle. Not being able to find something is as bad as not having it in the first place! In this post, I’ll talk about the problems with current search tools and mechanisms. I’ll show how the advanced search capabilities of our app Knit solves these problems. This is the 1st post in my blog series related to finding your personal digital content. Other posts in this series include: Part 1: this post – Intro to the search problem and Advanced Search. Part […]