Hello everyone, I have a huge amount of information (my own research) available to me, but as this 'database' is growing and will keep growing I'm looking for a better way to organize it all and being able to quickly reference it. For example, I may have screenshots/charts of every FOMC Day for the last 10 years. That's the specific FOMC Day, statistics for that specific day and also for the entire week. I have the same available for monthly/quarterly options expiration. CPI/PPI/NFP, you name it. Currently, it's organized in folders and sub-folders on my computer in various Excel sheets. I was thinking a better way could be if I had a single application or program where it was all collected and I could quickly reference/find whatever I'm interested in looking at. Is OneNote something which could work? Or is there something better? Thanks in advance and happy new year!
I am not sure what OneNote or any other app would add to what you already have. Perhaps it would be easier for you to find an app that would allow you to quickly search inside and view your existing Excel spreadsheets.
Much of my historical data is in, or I convert to, ACII form which any old software can upload and plot. I also then create and save chart images of such in particular folders.
I think the problem is that everything is within excel files. Maybe you could just organize and name the data (keywords) in a better way then use the search function to retrieve what’s needed.
This is something that many companies have to do over time. Since you seem to be very Microsoft Office oriented one solution that Microsoft implemented is SharePoint. Once you upload your documents to the server it creates metadata for all your files and then you can search through them from a single place. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/get-started-with-modern-search-experience
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in your brains, you worry too much. the information is in the platform and websites, paid or not paid. looking at past data doesn’t guarantee future performance. i stop taking trading notes long time ago, trade decision is done on the fly.
not off topic, unless it is paid deliverables, keeping notes are futile. knowing where to look is more important. alternative is to lease a bloomberg terminal, they have everything.