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<p>[QUOTE="PipersSpring, post: 3106704, member: 82411"]Google Keep sounds simple, inexpensive (free) and flexible. I use Apple 'Notes' which is very similar and also free. It's easy to directly enter data in to, cut, paste or import. As many photos as you like can be imported, cut and pasted or dragged in from Photos or even from an auction catalog.</p><p><br /></p><p>When I buy a coin at auction, I just copy and paste the attribution, drag or control click the photo in to the coin's notes file and drag the file to whatever Notes folder I want it to reside in. I often go to AC Search and find similar coins, with prices and attributions, and paste those in so that I have a record of the relative value of the coin...at least at the time I purchased it.</p><p><br /></p><p>You can make tabs or labels, but the program's search capabilities are so good that it will find every occurrence of whatever word you are searching for (even those in the body of the text), and display the results on it's left border. It's super search ability is a big plus, especially when you are in a hurry, but it often produces irrelevant hits simply because your search term was found deep in the text of an unrelated coin's description. The program is pretty good about prioritizing it's search findings. If searching for Hadrian, you might get 8 Hadrian coins, then a Trajan and then back to Hadrians. I haven't quite figured out the logic that the search function uses. It's probably improvable by using advanced search methods, but it works so well, I just enter the name of the emperor I want and don't waste my time trying to do a fancy search. Interestingly, with Shekels of Tyre, which are dated, it will keep them organized by date and normally find the coin(s) for the year I'm looking for simply by searching for "30" or "162", etc. However, it can get confused if that same number occurs in birth and death dates like, Poppaea (30-65 AD).</p><p><br /></p><p>I keep my Notes files in iCloud, which enables me to access or add information from my iPhone, as well as my MacBook Pro.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="PipersSpring, post: 3106704, member: 82411"]Google Keep sounds simple, inexpensive (free) and flexible. I use Apple 'Notes' which is very similar and also free. It's easy to directly enter data in to, cut, paste or import. As many photos as you like can be imported, cut and pasted or dragged in from Photos or even from an auction catalog. When I buy a coin at auction, I just copy and paste the attribution, drag or control click the photo in to the coin's notes file and drag the file to whatever Notes folder I want it to reside in. I often go to AC Search and find similar coins, with prices and attributions, and paste those in so that I have a record of the relative value of the coin...at least at the time I purchased it. You can make tabs or labels, but the program's search capabilities are so good that it will find every occurrence of whatever word you are searching for (even those in the body of the text), and display the results on it's left border. It's super search ability is a big plus, especially when you are in a hurry, but it often produces irrelevant hits simply because your search term was found deep in the text of an unrelated coin's description. The program is pretty good about prioritizing it's search findings. If searching for Hadrian, you might get 8 Hadrian coins, then a Trajan and then back to Hadrians. I haven't quite figured out the logic that the search function uses. It's probably improvable by using advanced search methods, but it works so well, I just enter the name of the emperor I want and don't waste my time trying to do a fancy search. Interestingly, with Shekels of Tyre, which are dated, it will keep them organized by date and normally find the coin(s) for the year I'm looking for simply by searching for "30" or "162", etc. However, it can get confused if that same number occurs in birth and death dates like, Poppaea (30-65 AD). I keep my Notes files in iCloud, which enables me to access or add information from my iPhone, as well as my MacBook Pro.[/QUOTE]
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