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Steelerman
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 posted July 28, 2012 08:06 PM   Click Here to See the Profile for Steelerman Click Here to Email Steelerman Send a private message to Steelerman Click to send Steelerman an Instant Message Edit/Delete Message Reply With Quote View Steelerman's Have/Want ListView Steelerman's Have/Want List
Hello i am looking to get some software so i can keep track of what i have. especially after buying a few large collections. something fairly easy, with a search option? i honestly dont know what all is out there. any help would be greatly appreciated. thanks Steelerman
 
Soldier Boi
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 posted July 28, 2012 08:32 PM   Click Here to See the Profile for Soldier Boi Click Here to Email Soldier Boi Send a private message to Soldier Boi Click to send Soldier Boi an Instant Message Edit/Delete Message Reply With Quote 
Well if you have the time MS Excel works just fine. You can put your cards in one column and the amount in another. You can search with ctrl-f to look for whatever you want. Its basic, its easy, it works.

[Edited 1 times, lastly by Soldier Boi on July 28, 2012]
 
Mr.C
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Originally posted by Steelerman:
Hello i am looking to get some software so i can keep track of what i have. especially after buying a few large collections. something fairly easy, with a search option? i honestly dont know what all is out there. any help would be greatly appreciated. thanks Steelerman

MagicAlbum is pretty decent.

 
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Originally posted by Soldier Boi:
Well if you have the time MS Excel works just fine. You can put your cards in one column and the amount in another. You can search with ctrl-f to look for whatever you want. Its basic, its easy, it works.

+1

 
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It's a bit outdated (though there was just a survey done, which suggests that someone is at least looking at an update) but Magic Suitcase works pretty well for me. It has some issues with things like colored artifacts and Dryad Arbor because the core hasn't been updated recently enough to handle stuff like that, but it has updates for every set out, and beats the heck out of trying to hand-key or import set lists into Excel as needed.

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Originally posted by nderdog:
It's a bit outdated (though there was just a survey done, which suggests that someone is at least looking at an update) but Magic Suitcase works pretty well for me. It has some issues with things like colored artifacts and Dryad Arbor because the core hasn't been updated recently enough to handle stuff like that, but it has updates for every set out, and beats the heck out of trying to hand-key or import set lists into Excel as needed.

Does it have an export to CSV at all?

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I like mtgstudio. It costs money after an evaluation period but it is constantly updated and has a ridiculous amount of features.
 
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I use Excel

In fact,I used my trade list to learn excel for my job :-P

[Edited 1 times, lastly by Myysterio on July 31, 2012]

 
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Originally posted by WeedIan:
Does it have an export to CSV at all?

It is an Access DB, so yeah, you can export to lots of other formats, but being a programmer, I view Excel as a huge step down from an actual database.

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I use a tab-delimited text file and I wrote some Python scripts to "add" new acquisitions and to search my inventory.
 
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Originally posted by nderdog:
It is an Access DB, so yeah, you can export to lots of other formats, but being a programmer, I view Excel as a huge step down from an actual database.

I agree, but being able to export lists into something you can send to people and format is great.

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