Is Copernic better for desktop search?

Right after I wrote my post about desktop search (which I seem to be the only one who uses it … fools) I learned that Copernic had a new version that seemed pretty skookum. Well always willing to give a DS app another try (when a new version comes out) I ditched Google for Copernic. It’s been about a month now, and I’m still running Copernic.

I had the toolbar for IE running, which has a nice RSS headline feature, but I got rid of that. Didn’t add a lot of value compared to the space it took up (you can’t have all the toolbars open that you’d like … you start running out of space for the pages!). The indexing is fast, and it does keep up with changes pretty well (something that other tools had a hard time doing).

I wish it had a toolbar for Outlook though. I use it mostly to find e-mails. I have a lot of e-mail. Tens of thousands covering just a few years. I keep far, far too much, but on the other hand I can pull up old conversations and info pretty efficiently. The deskbar component is the one I use often, but I think it’s going to go soon. The responsiveness isn’t great and if I start a search and click away, the search stops. I think running the main window is better. The e-mail preview is good and I can open or forward an e-mail from there.

My fellow PYW-ers don’t use desktop search. They claim to be well organized. Yeah, well I know that a) I’m not that organized and b) once you try it (rather try several and find the one you like) you won’t know how you lived without it.

Tags: desktop search, Copernic DS