an app to do global find?

[fireflyrsmr]

when i had a newton i could search for any scrap of info anywhere in that machine. a collague had a CE machine with bFind on it that he said did something similar. from a "thought" jason had on searching nested file folders i think i know the answer but i'm hoping some smart guy will either tell me where to find or create an application that can search all programs all folders all of the info i create for that one word or number i can remember connected to the info i need inside the box that has everything. why could the smart guys at apple do that so long ago and the smart guys in the microsoft world did not. it seems like something that is so clearly important for a PIM. :?

[jwf]

I've had a bit of a rant going on about this ever since I got the Pocket PC. The Palm has a similar feature - a global find that searches ALL the data on the device. It's very useful. The Pocket PC's 'find' functionality sometimes doesn't even find information in the built in apps e.g. Excel.

I must admit it amused me the other day when I purchased ListPro for my Palm V, a new platform version of an original Pocket PC product. To my surprise I find that it integrates well with the Palm's global find function. The Pocket PC version does not integrate with the global find functionality. Ironic!

I was told by a Pocket PC developer that the hooks do not exist in the Pocket PC find functionality to allow an application to be notified of a global search. This is necessary because a lot of apps with compress their data files so a simplistic clear-text file search will not find the data. Also, a clear-text style search would not easily allow the starting of the required application with the 'found' record selected. As the Palm OS does.

Again simple no-brainer PDA stuff that was ignored by MS in their 'improvement' on existing products ;-)

John