Anything wrong with the official Google Reader app? I just use that.

I have a tech tool question.

I would like to do a very simple piece of data organization, and I'm sure there's a tool to do it.

I am organizing a MathCounts team for my school. I have a giant pile of problems, and I want to simply make a list of all of the problems, with tags. Basically, if I see a geometry question that uses the area formula for regular polygons, 30-60-90 triangles, and the pythagorean theorem, I want to associate the problem with tags "30-60-90","regular polygon area","area","pythagorean", and "geometry", so that later, when I'm working on a geometry unit with the girls, I can click on "30-60-90" and pull up all of the problems that use it.

If the problems were URLs, I'd use del.icio.us or springpad or Evernote. If I actually wanted to type the problems up, I would use SpringPad or EverNote. But since the problems are actually on paper, all I really want is to tag a title: "2010-2011 Warmup 10 Problem 3" - any other information is overkill.

Any suggestions for a nice svelte way to do this - add tags to something as simple as a title?

Why not Evernote? You can attach files to notes in the desktop version.

Anything wrong with the official Google Reader app? I just use that.

Because it's not one of the top whatever results when you search for rss reader?

Weird. I find that pretty surprising, but I probably searched "Google Reader" since I knew I would want one that synced.

Ginger: I may yet do that, but since I want to make an individual "note" for every single problem - of which there are 10-20 in each file - attaching files isn't really useful. I don't even have digital copies of some of the files - they're old paper-only masters. I don't really want to use the program to store the actual information, just the tags along with enough information that I can look the problem up in my MathCounts binder.

I could absolutely hack Evernote (or Springpad, which I like a bit more) to do what I want, but it would just have a lot of overhead.

Gris,

I must confess I don't know what you need.

Can't you do what you want in excel? Google spreadsheet? Do you want to pair the items with QR codes or something?

Do you need a database?

Has anyone here ever used anything like Sickbeard? I'm trying to work out its scope. I mean, can I use it on a login-only torrent site?

This is a seriously interesting article (well, marginally interesting article with interesting comments) on automation. I understand that I basically suck, in that I've only partially automated torrent uPNP transcode solutions. Dammit.

But I think the guy who says their fridge SMSs is lying. LYING.

A three file data base to create a many to many relationship would work but might be a bit of a pain.

Table Titles
title Id| title

Table Tags
Tag Id| Tag

Table Connector
Connection Id| Title Id | Tag Id

The first field in each table would be auto generated.

Maybe access could make a form to handle those tables that would not be too big a pain to fill in.

Many moons ago I had to do something on those lines In Visual Fox Pro, but I doubt anyone but a few people with legacy code use that any more.

I absolutely could do it in a database. I could probably fake something just fine in Excel - in fact, I started to. But what I like about tagging, as implemented in... everything... is the type-it-and-forget-it simplicity.

I think I may actually use Evernote for REALS and copy the test questions in there, as images snipped from the PDF. I can scan the ones I have hard copies of - we have a PDF-scanning copy machine that would make it fast. That would provide some interesting power, and would probably pay off in the long run.