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Posted by Chris Murtland
Apr 5, 2019 at 03:16 PM

ConnectedText allows placing arbitrary fields (which CT calls properties or attributes) within any single topic.

Posted by Jeffery Smith
Apr 5, 2019 at 07:37 PM

askSam was wonderful in the DOS world, and not so in the Windows world. The same goes for MaxThink, XyWrite, Q&A, and Nota Bene.

Arnold wrote:
askSam both DOS and Windows version allowed for this. No longer
>available, yet the last versions are still working as long as you
>install in non-protected system directories. Placed in c:\bin\askSam was
>a good decision for when Windows updated.
> >Just did not make a good transition to Window, worked but had formatting
>issues with text.
> >Many programs allowed for templates (InfoSelect, Personal Knowbase,
>Zoot) all come to mind. Zoot being the best of the group if you are
>Windows based.

Posted by MadaboutDana
Apr 6, 2019 at 10:38 AM

Oops, yes, forgot askSam. I never got on as well with it as with Idealist - in its heyday, the latter was just so professional (and the scripting language was spectacularly easy to use).

Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Apr 6, 2019 at 05:48 PM

The concept of AskSam was spectacular. The execution, not so much. I bought a copy about 20 years ago. It was very finicky and I could never get reports to print properly. On top of that, the editor was horrid to write in. If only…

Steve Z

Posted by Jeffery Smith
Apr 6, 2019 at 06:38 PM

I was using askSam with downloads of abstracts and references from MEDLINE, downloaded on an excruciatingly slow modem.

Nutshell could also be a nice notetaking device, with colorful screens in the early MSDOS world. I believe it evolved eventually into Filemaker Pro.

Stephen Zeoli wrote:
The concept of AskSam was spectacular. The execution, not so much. I
>bought a copy about 20 years ago. It was very finicky and I could never
>get reports to print properly. On top of that, the editor was horrid to
>write in. If only…
> >Steve Z

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