Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!usc!ucsd!swrinde!mips!sgi!shinobu!odin!odin.corp.sgi.com!portuesi From: portuesi@tweezers.esd.sgi.com (Michael Portuesi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops Subject: Re: utilities wanted Message-ID: Date: 22 Oct 90 10:23:11 GMT References: <3603@mindlink.UUCP> Sender: news@odin.corp.sgi.com (Net News) Reply-To: portuesi@sgi.com (Michael Portuesi) Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mtn. View, CA Lines: 50 In-Reply-To: a577@mindlink.UUCP's message of 20 Oct 90 06:58:14 GMT >>>>> On 20 Oct 90 06:58:14 GMT, a577@mindlink.UUCP (Curt Sampson) said: >> 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. There is a similar program called Info Select which is available from a company called Micro Logic. From what I've read above, Info Select is comparable to MemoryMate; it has all the features listed above. I run it stand-alone under DESQview on my T1000XE, though it also runs memory-resident as well. It offers hypertext-like abilities (you can place a link in one note which leads to another), and it has a date-lookup feature which is good enough to use the package as a replacement for your appointment book. It can sum columns, handle character-line graphics in notes, and lets you define templates for fill-in-the-blank forms. Its search function is very fast; it searches as you type, narrowing out notes that don't match in real-time. You may want to compare both these programs closely before you buy one or the other. > One of my friends described it as "like having post-it notes all over the > inside of your monitor." This is exactly how I describe Info Select, too! --M -- __ \/ Michael Portuesi Silicon Graphics, Inc. portuesi@sgi.com Integration, not segregation or assimilation.