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Posted by Jack Crawford
Aug 17, 2006 at 04:41 AM

Wojciech

Following on Derek’s comment about databases, have you looked at CardBox, a DB with a long history rivalling Brainstorm? It’s at http://www.cardbox.com.

Jack

Posted by Daly de Gagne
Aug 17, 2006 at 12:57 PM

Jack, I just looked at Cardbox’s site.

I am curious about the program, but at its price I wonder why I wouldn’t use Filemaker or a program like that.

Re the price, I find that a number of the British programs I have looked at in past have struck me as being fairly steeply priced.

Daly

Jack Crawford wrote:
>Wojciech
> >Following on Derek’s comment about databases, have you looked at
>CardBox, a DB with a long history rivalling Brainstorm? It’s at
>http://www.cardbox.com.
> >Jack

Posted by Wojciech
Aug 17, 2006 at 10:21 PM

Derek,

Derek Cornish wrote:
>Sorry that askSam did not work for you, Wojciech. It seems strange that nobody is
>producing software with the type of features you mention. Maybe one of the
>traditional database programs (e.g, MS Access) might be worth looking at. They
>usually have reasonably good form-design features and, of course, excellent
>data-handling.
> >Derek

This is an interesting idea, but I have only educational version of MS Office, ie. without Access, and buying the full suite is beyond my financial capabilities. Maybe I should try a database program that is included into OpenOffice?... I will think about it, many thanks for your suggestion.

Wojciech

Posted by Wojciech
Aug 17, 2006 at 10:32 PM

Jack

You are great! CardBox seems to be exactly what I am looking for. The only thing that makes me worry is what they say about home version: no ‘relational searching and linking’ (professional version is definitely too expensive for me). Does it mean that it is not possible, for example, to link one source card with several notes cards? All right, I will be playing with it, hope to have some time for this on Saturday or Sunday.

Wojciech

PS. A rival of Brainstorm? How it is possible, looks like a absolutely different approach…
W.

Posted by Jack Crawford
Aug 18, 2006 at 03:03 AM

Hi Wojciech

I’m glad that Cardbox looks promising. I was interested in it as a freeform collections database. I can’t help you with your relationship data question. My recollection was that you can link data. There are a lot of resources on their website so I’m sure that the exact answer is there somewhere.

My comparison with Brainstorm was in the context of their history not their features. Both programs have been on the market for more than 20 years and were designed originally before DOS. See http://www.cardbox.com/cardbox/history.htm

I would suspect that there are very few software products anywhere still in active development that have the longevity of Brainstorm and Cardbox.

Jack

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