Can you help me with an information storage and retrieval problem?
I have more than 2000 YouTube videos saved in 65 playlists. I would like to search for particular videos, but YouTube does not make it easy.
So I thought about doing something like this:
1) Create a document that would list every saved video with its URL.
2) Create a preliminary list of descriptive tags for the videos.
3) Begin the task of tagging each entry on the video listing in the document , adding new tags when necessary.
4) Find an application that would allow me to search the document using Boolean operators and parentheses.
Although Step 3 will be time consuming, I understand what I would be doing there.
However, I'm very unsure of myself with regard to step 4. A librarian suggested that I use Evernote, while an online search came up with a spreadsheet as the appropriate application for my purposes.
I have never used Evernote ( I don't even know what it is!), and am not familiar with spreadsheet operation, being more of a pencil and paper gradebook bloke.
I am not a tech person, have only a limited knowledge of information storage and retrieval, and would prefer not to use Microsoft or Google applications on my Linux desktop. I would also prefer not to have to buy anything.
Does anybody have any suggestions for step 4?
In addition, please don't hesitate to tell me if I am thinking about my YouTube searching problem in the wrong way and that I need to adopt a wholly different approach to solving it.
