EagleFiler 17+

Organize files, archive mail

C-Command Software, LLC

    • 4.4 • 16 Ratings
    • $59.99

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Description

Collect notes, e-mails, and Web pages on your Mac, and search them instantly. EagleFiler makes organizing and managing your information easy. It lets you archive and search mail, Web pages, PDF files, word processing documents, images, and more. Use it to collect information from a variety of sources. Browse different types of files using a familiar three-pane interface. Organize them into folders and annotate them with tags and notes, or leave everything in one folder and pin-point the information you need using the live search. Since EagleFiler stores its library in Finder format, you can use it in concert with the other tools in your Mac ecosystem.

EagleFiler in a nutshell:

* With a single keypress, import Web pages, mail messages, or any file on your Mac.

* EagleFiler stores them in an open format: regular files and folders that are fully accessible to your other applications.

* Optionally: encrypt the files, add tags, notes, color-coded labels, and other metadata.

* Browse by folder or by tag, or use the live search or smart folders to find the information you need (faster than Spotlight).

* View, edit, or create documents directly in EagleFiler's streamlined interface, or double-click to edit using another application.

EagleFiler is a digital filing cabinet, a research assistant, snippet collector, and document organizer. You can use it to write a journal, track all the files for a project or job, manage your bookmarks, save your favorite Web articles, store financial statements and receipts, run a paperless office, plan a trip, collect your course notes, archive your e-mail correspondence, search mailing list archives, research a purchase, remember recipes to cook or books to read, store scientific papers, sort photos, gather legal case notes, or assemble a scrapbook. It’s the most flexible tool on your Mac.

“It’s a vital tool for the digital pack rat.…The application’s tagging, note-taking, and searching capabilities make finding that one file you stored in EagleFiler a year ago and want to retrieve today a cinch.” —Macworld

“EagleFiler combines ease of use with an underlying ingenuity that makes it feel simple, fast, and lightweight. It’s packed with too many clever touches for me to list.” —TidBITS

“Using EagleFiler, I can now stop fussing with organization tools and just get myself organized.” —InformationWeek

What’s New

Version 1.9.13

- Improved importing from Evernote. EagleFiler is better at detecting when a note contains only a single attached file, so that it can be imported directly rather than embedded in a rich text file, and in such cases EagleFiler now preserves any custom author information that you'd set in Evernote.

- Since version 1.9.2, EagleFiler has used Nitter to import Web pages from Twitter, as it did a good job of including media and related tweets. Twitter has since blocked access for users who are not logged in. For a while, Nitter was able to work around that, but now it is dead. Thus, this version of EagleFiler removes support for Nitter. There remain several ways to import from Twitter to EagleFiler:

- If you use the capture key in Safari, EagleFiler will create a text file with the contents of the tweet. The source URL is preserved.

- You can use the EagleFiler system services to import the selected text.

- You can use the "Save PDF to EagleFiler" command to import the whole page.

- When using auto-completion to assign a tag to a record, EagleFiler will now pre-select a matching tag with differing case if there's no exact match. This saves you the step of using the arrow keys to select the tag that you wanted if EagleFiler guessed correctly.

- Worked around a macOS bug that could prevent the content of .eml message files from being searchable. Previously imported .eml files will be automatically reindexed as needed.

- The ef_unscanned tag now works to suppress importing a subfolder when rebuilding a library.

- If you press the capture key in the Unread RSS reader, EagleFiler will now explain how to import from it.

- Worked around a macOS bug that could cause a hang when importing from Unread using the system service.

- Improved capturing from NetNewsWire when multiple articles are selected.

- Improved the fallback source URL generation for e-mail messages when EagleFiler encounters a macOS URL bug.

- Improved handling of empty Web archive data from drags and system services.

- Updated the following sections of the manual:

- How can I rebuild a library?
- New Library...

- Each help page now has a link to a Google translation so you can view it in a different language.

- Fixed a bug where EagleFiler could hang if you created a new file during a scan for new files.

- Fixed setting the From name when importing a downloaded URL.

- Fixed a file permissions issue when accessing a shared library.

- Fixed a timeout error when capturing from a very large mailbox in Apple Mail.

- Made various fixes and updates to prevent Cocoa from logging warnings.

- Fixed a bug where a bad source URL could prevent a record from being displayed.

- Fixed bug where an error could occur when generating a mailbox file to export the selected messages.

- Updated to version 1.6 of the SkimNotes framework.

- Removed defunct bundle resources to reduce the size of the app.

If you enjoy using EagleFiler, please take a moment to rate it or leave a review. We’d really appreciate it.

Ratings and Reviews

4.4 out of 5
16 Ratings

16 Ratings

flowcontrol ,

Clever and versatile

My primary reason for buying this was to safely archive my email in case Apple Mail mangles my old messages during a macOS upgrade. But it’s obviously useful for many more organizational needs. This is not the easiest software to learn, so I used the 30-day free trial from the website to take time with the online manual and understand how it works. After only a week or two of testing with my files, I decided this was a definite BUY. The only reason I dropped a star is that it is not the most intuitive software to learn, but it will reward those who stick with it and study it.

Nils Strand ,

Update: Figured it out

I am updating this review. Initially, I was unable to select multiple mailboxes in Apple Mail and have the program work (granted these were very large mailboxes). However, when I selected individual mailboxes, even the large ones, it seemed to work fine.

Developer Response ,

There’s no limit. If you press the capture key in Apple Mail, EagleFiler will show a camera badge on its Dock icon while it asks Mail which messages you have selected. For a large mailbox, you’ll need to wait for this to finish before doing something else in EagleFiler or Mail. A status window should pop up every few seconds to update you on the progress.

We’ve not received any other reports of problems importing mail, so please contact eaglefiler@c-command.com so that we can look into what’s happening here. It’s not clear from your message whether it’s crashing (app unexpectedly quitting) or freezing (app not responding). Either way, this page explains how you can include the information that we would need in order to help: https://c-command.com/eaglefiler/help/what-information-should

j182749502 ,

Works Beautifully!

What I needed was a simple mbox file viewer to look at my email archive I had downloaded from Gmail. I always wanted to reach inbox zero and this app made it possible. It was exaclty what I was looking for...simple to import and easy to search through. Had no hiccups at all.

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Supports

  • Family Sharing

    Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.