Hello,

I'd be grateful for any help on this.

I want to do something that seems really simple to me, but which I'm unable
to find an equally simple solution to. In this supposed information age, I
find it especially confounding.

I just want to set up a database to accomodate some text documents. I want
them browsable by just a handful of categories (e.g., all docs; docs by
date; docs by author; docs by topic), and cross-referencable by the same
categories, and I'd like to have a full text search capability.

Apart from that, I'd like the database to have a simple and intuitive
interface, and I want to be able to put it onto a disc or another computer
and have it, and all the docs, accessible on it.

While this must be just about the easiest thing on earth for any programmer
to be able to do, I'm amazed that any software I try to do this with is
needlessly, and bizarrely, complicated. And not able to do it.

I tried out Coolbase, and I like the structure of that, but it's more
unwieldy and complicated that I thought it would be. And its search
capabilities seem very limited. I tried out Doquments as well, but, again,
became confounded at how needlessly complicated it is. And, again, it
didn't seem to be able to do what I want.

Am I just wrong about these programmes not being appropriate? Is there
another, simple and effective programme that I can do this with? Is there
something else that I should try?

I'd be grateful if you'd post any replies to the newsgroup, as my email's
been acting up.