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[Martijn Kuipers <martijn.kuipers@xxxxxxxxx>]

Good morning (it is here),

I use partkeepr for my datasheets and “inventory”. It takes a bit of pain to put all your components in, but then the information is easy to get to, searchable and all. It can even take a photo of you component via webcam, which is great for housings.


It is open source, but I am not advocating to add this to KiCad. Let’s focus on the development of the best affordable electronic CAD software. I think it is quickly taking the number one spot, 
and has for me already surpassed Eagle. Eagle is great also, but I had to make one larger PCB so had the options to either shelve out some more money of use KiCad. Guess what was my choice.

Anyway, to make a long story short: here is a link to an excellent open source electronic component database with a lot of bells and whistles: http://www.partkeepr.org <http://www.partkeepr.org/>
Note, the stable release is a bit old, but it is actively being developed and the author has been very helpful with some minor issues I have had in the past.

Thanks KiCad devs, KiCad rocks, you rock!
/Martijn



> On 23 Sep 2015, at 02:08, Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Hmm? No, just store it by part number. You can always use a different means (searching through the KiCad lib?) to find a number first.
> 
> On Sep 22, 2015 7:29 PM, "Andy Peters" <devel@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:devel@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> 
> > On Sep 22, 2015, at 2:14 PM, Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> >
> > Good lord. You know you can just store datasheets in a directory on your file system, right? The same way people have stored things on computers for decades. Your computer /already has this functionality/.
> 
> Yeah, like who _doesn’t_ have a big directory tree starting with “datasheets” and then a long long list of vendors and within each vendor maybe a bunch of categories …
> 
> Why does the tool need to do EVERYTHING?
> 
> -a
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