searching a TXT file "in disguise"

I gotta say that the IFilter stuff looks pretty cool, and maybe someday my day job will end, and I'll give it a try, but FOR NOW, I just want to do one simple thing!

I just want to specify other file "types" (other suffixes) that I use to organize my data that are essentially simple text files to the Windows Desktop Search engines so that this large repository of useful information can be found with WDS. I am guessing that any number of files in the "plain text" category are sharing code, so how can I piggyback on that work, rather than reinvent the proverbial wheel ! !

Somehow I suspect it should just be an extra entry in the registry or something equally inane. Nothing for a software guy to fluff up one's feathers about, but actually, effectively using someone else's solution instead of starting from scratch is something in which to take satisfactoin.

Please tell me it is "just that simple" (and please tell me how , of course), and then I will bother to download WDS. Until then, I will just have to trust my memory and my organization of my data...