Methods and systems for managing data

摘要

Systems and methods for managing data, such as metadata. In one exemplary method, metadata from files created by several different software applications are captured, and the captured metadata is searched. The type of information in metadata for one type of file differs from the type of information in metadata for another type of file. Other methods are described and data processing systems and machine readable media are also described.

主权项

1. A machine implemented method comprising:
displaying text within a text processing application on a local data processing system; receiving a selection of at least some of the text of a file having the text being displayed by the text processing application; receiving a selection of a command to search a plurality of files using the selection; automatically using the selected text to launch a search, wherein the search is a system wide search of indexed content stored on the local data processing system, and wherein the search searches through the file having the selection of text; and displaying results of the search of the plurality of files.