12.4  Alternative / complement to spreadsheets for complex data

Catalyzer can be used as an alternative to a spreadsheet for gathering and manipulating data.

The features which are useful in this context are the Browse / Search views which allow very convenient sorting and searching. Note also that you can import multiple spreadsheets into a single catalog, and search across all of them. The other useful feature of Catalyzer is that you can have hierarchy, references and links to files and images.

Note also that is is very simple to copy data from Catalyzer into a spreadsheet (from the browse or search windows) - and from a spreadsheet back to Catalyzer ("import spreadsheet"), so you can use each tool for the tasks to which is it best suited - the spreadsheet for graphing and calculations, and Catalyzer for searching and browsing complex structured data.