DigiCat

Storage space is less of a concern nowadays, which can lead to a poorly organized workspace, making things difficult to find in the nick of time. Sure enough, there’s a default Windows tool to help out, but there are also dedicated programs like DigiCat which can save indexed drives and custom folders, retrieving results in a couple of seconds.

First of all, locations need to be indexed for the application to be able to look for any custom input. This is easily done by selecting either a drive, fixed or removable, or a custom directory from a dedicated drop-down menu. Depending on the complexity, and size of the target location, it can take a bit of time to finish indexing.

All locations are found in the Catalog tab, organized in a table with column headers for custom key, volume, serial, update time, and comments. You’re free to explore them here, with a tree view of all folders, or classic file navigator. The table of indexed locations can be exported as Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, XML logs, or directly printed out on a sheet of paper.

As far as the search operation is concerned, the application looks for the custom keyword in all indexed locations. Results are instantly displayed, with additional details like volume, target path, file name, size, date, and time, with the possibility to sort according to these headers. A 3D graph can be generated according to size, and ID, or directly jump to the target location in File Explorer.

Unfortunately, there’s no option to force automatic updates of catalogs, so this operation needs to be manually performed. The application does not run with Windows, but this can be bypassed by simply adding a shortcut to the system Startup folder.

All things considered, we can say that DigiCat is a practical search utility, especially for large databases, and complex folder structures. Although there’s no option to automatically update indexed locations, manually doing this doesn’t take a lot of time, while results are delivered almost instantly.