Free Document Management Software

I am incredibly absent-minded and disorganized and i don't consider them flaws, but rather like shortcomings. I guess I am outstanding in other parts. Well, when it comes to finding a document or an important paper in  my home or my computer I am totally helpless. I keep looking until I find what I need, but this can take some time and, as you know, time is money and sometimes we just can't afford spending it on unimportant things that can be avoided.



That is why I decided to get some free document management software to help me organize things a little bit in my computer and, after that, following the same model i will hopefully change them in my life, too, making it better. Of course there are a lot of very good document management software applications available on the market, but I preferred the free versions, as I only need this for my personal computer and I think I don't have such a huge amount of documents to manage.

Now I will talk about two such free document management software applications that I found on the internet and that you can download for free if you ever consider using it, too. The first one is the Kordil EDMS (Electronic Document Management System)- a very effective tool that can help you manage and organize your documents. It is very helpful for organizations and also individuals who want to co-ordinate and organize the entire documentation in a single database.

You can install this software on your server and all the users can access it using the internet connection or the intranet . You can introduce new data when you are online or even import data from a different data base. It allows latest revision control or apply filters on different categories of documents or even search certain data according to very complex criteria. You can also email a page of a document to somebody or online document distribution. You may set it to give you daily or weekly reports concerning the activity in the database , you may use it to make and inventory and you can do a lot of other things with it. The supported document format is Excel, Word, CSV, XML, and TXT.

The second example is eDoc Organizer 2.0. It is very simple and easy to use and helps you organize your electronic documents. It is recommended for small business users and also for personal use, as it has a very simple interface and not too many features. You can ue it to organize all the written and scanned documents on your computer. It offers a useful and simple filing system and certain features like: organize, view and search your documents fast. The menus are also very explicit and simple.

When you are looking for a certain document you are given thumbnails of all your documents and you can use colours to label different categories of documents where you can use the pre-set labels or make your own. You can also sort the documents according to their age or another selection criterion. In case you need some help you can always access the producer's web page where you will find support for your problem. This free document management software not only teaches you how to organize your documents, but can also help you to become a more organized person in all the activities that you do.