Yes there is. Ehm, I've read about a mac PDF manager at least. I personally use Zotero, a reference manager for Firefox. It helps me cite sources in MS-Word and Open Office. It indexes pdf, websites and I suppose txt files as well. Dunno about chm though.
if you want pdf's you might try something like skim. for other formats you're largely out of luck. If you load something like the mobipocket ebook reader on a pda or something, that has some (very limited) organization features on some platforms. generally, so far the idea is just plop something in there and organize by folder and name. You can kinda sorta work around some of those limitations by using something like sente or some other bibliographic software to organize information about an ebook. last option is to embed the ebooks in something like voodoo pad or devonthink pro and let them handle archiving them while you tag it all up however you want. wont handle reading them, but you can double click them as embedded and it should open the appropriate app.
I'm thinking about the devonthink/voodoopad route, which I both love, but I don't thin kthat's the best way to go about it. Devonthink won't even open chms in the app, I can add it but I'd have to use an external reader, and I had bad luck once with devonthink and formats it doesn't really support.
For PDFs I can use yep, but that means I have to sort my chm/txt/other formats separately from pdf, and I want to search/sort all of them together instead of scattered in multiple directories and apps.
I kinda meant that you just use devonthink or the like as a file manager and let the appropriate native app handle reading the file. Not ideal but it'd give you some useful metadata to search and manipulate. Alternatively convert all to a single formatand find something that handles that format.
no, i didn't misread it. i understand what you mean, but that's not what I want nor something I feel like doing - e.g. while the pdfs will be searchable, i'd have to rely on the metadata (and only the metadata) for chm, while devonthink royally fucks up the formatting on some of the txts and other similar apps won't even let you import unknown formats. Might as well just keep it in folders the way it is now. Expanding chms is messy
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I personally use Zotero, a reference manager for Firefox. It helps me cite sources in MS-Word and Open Office. It indexes pdf, websites and I suppose txt files as well. Dunno about chm though.
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For PDFs I can use yep, but that means I have to sort my chm/txt/other formats separately from pdf, and I want to search/sort all of them together instead of scattered in multiple directories and apps.
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I kinda meant that you just use devonthink or the like as a file manager and let the appropriate native app handle reading the file. Not ideal but it'd give you some useful metadata to search and manipulate. Alternatively convert all to a single formatand find something that handles that format.
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