I’m doing a major clean up of my course files (notes, PowerPoint presentations, assignments, articles, images, etc.) and am simultaneously updating my portfolio here on the site. I’ve added several projects that I am currently working on. Some of these projects are in work and therefore I’ll add them at a later date.

"Together" resource manager

In my quest to find a decent program that helps me organize my course resources, I stumbled upon “Together.” It’s a resource manager application for Mac OS X and comes with some nifty features. There is an option to import the content from a URL and save it directly to a PDF file format. The PDF is then placed in your resource library. Another nice feature is the extra tab slider that attaches to the edge of your screen and slides out letting you instantly search your library and make quick notes.

Together seems great for my needs. I can sort all my course resources by “course” whereby I divvy up the files in folders according to quarter and course name. I add all relevant files in each course folder and tag resources (PDF articles) with a tag labeled “resource.” I then created a “Smart” folder (similar to iTunes Smart folders) that aggregates all files tagged as “resource.”

These two ways of organizing my course resources allows me to search for files contextually by quarter and course name, as well as non-contextually using the Smart folder for my resources that span across all courses.