With this Chrome extension & mobile & OSX app you can simultaneously search through multiple Gmail accounts & attachments, Google Drive, & Dropbox files, finding results that native searches normally miss.
Do you ever despair over where you have your important info & how you’re going to find it? Is it in an email message you received in one of your multiple Gmail project accounts, an attachment, one of your Dropboxes or Google Drive accounts? What you need is something that lets you find the things you need when you need them, & ‘Binocs’ aims to do that.
The tool indexes & searches all your Cloud email conversations, attachments & files, even applying OCR tech to scanned files. It works across most major file types: PDFs, Google documents, spreadsheets & presentations, images & of course emails & attachments. You use search terms, just like you’d do with a Google search. Binocs then immediately searches across all your Cloud services, sorts & filters results, & presents your search words highlighted in document snippets, so you always get in-context results.
Binocs is meant to be a productivity tool & seems to pretty much get it right. After you visualize your search results, you’re presented with a number of options, like opening the file, copying a share link, go to the original email, or if you’re using a Mac, show the file in Finder.
Another interesting feature is the ability to create your own channels, which are saved searches that let you stay up to date on topics you deem important across your cloud services. For example, you can track projects by creating a Channel & having it notify you if there are any changes in a Drive or Dropbox file or if any email conversations mentioning project keywords take place.
Binocs is currently in beta & you can apply for access to the OSX app, iOS app, & Chrome extension (Android & Windows apps are coming soon) by entering your request on the product page. The Boulder, Colorado, USA-based startup is led by its founder & Product lead Brian Rhea, who says that the array of Cloud services supported will soon also include, among others, the following: Slack, Salesforce, Evernote, One Drive, Office, Basecamp & Trello.
– This post is merely a startup profile based on publicly available information & not a review. –
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