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When documents are spread across your hard drive, the cloud, network folders, or even on the computer of a colleague, searching for the files you need can be a real headache. Noggle is a standalone desktop search and knowledge assistant application to provide fast and simple access to the information you need. Even if you thought you would never find a document again; Noggle will. Noggle provides an easy and fast way to quickly locate the exact documents you need, from wherever they’re located. Designed to find the relevant information on your PC and all connected network or cloud storage folders. Full text discovery, including image and photo search. Noggle is the only software providing you instant document recommendations on the fly. See material that is related or similar to the item you’re viewing to get your work done.

Crestadoro is a networkable file indexing and search tool. You can install it on multiple Windows machines, create libraries of documents that reside on each machine, then search and access the files from anywhere on your network. You can install Crestadoro on as many machines as you like, both the indexing engine and the search client are easy to set up. You can optionally use SQL Server to store the data if you don't want to use the internal storage mechanism that comes as standard (though it is pretty wizzy!). The Community Edition is completely free to use, you can have as many libraries as you want, the only limitation is that each library can only hold a maximum of 100 documents. Crestadoro is named in honor of Andrea Crestadoro, a chap who lived a couple of hundred years ago who is generally considered to be the first person to come up with the idea of indexing a book by its content rather than its title. He was also an inventor who came up with some bonkers ideas!