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From: a577@mindlink.UUCP (Curt Sampson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: utilities wanted
Message-ID: <3603@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 20 Oct 90 06:58:14 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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> oury@techbook.com writes:
> 
>          2) A ram resident popup notepad, maybe with hypertext
>           abilities.

IMHO, the most useful program you could ever buy for a laptop is MemoryMate,
from Broderbund Software.

This handy utility can be run standalone or memory-resident.  It will use up
about 80K of memory resident, or 30K and 64K of EMS.

It's basically a notepad that has up to 32,000 and a few "pages" that are 80
cols by 120 lines long.  It indexes every word in the entries.  If you search
for "John Smith" it will tell you his address, that you have an appointment
with him on Friday (which it would have automatically brought up when you
invoked the program on that day) and that he owes you $50.  You can use the
traditional 'and' and 'or' in the search, and you can narrow a search with
further qualifications once you've come up with an initial result.

I toss all sorts of information into it and it all comes out again.  I find it
truly amazing.

One of my friends described it as "like having post-it notes all over the
inside of your monitor."

I cannot recommend this program enough.  If you want more information on it
feel free to email me; I'll send off an extensive review of it that I wrote
recently.

I paid about $65 Cdn. for it.  It  would be cheaper in the U.S., of course.

cjs
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