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From: lauac@wheeler.qal.berkeley.edu (Alexander Lau)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Help with Mac software
Keywords: outliners, freeform databases
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Date: 14 Feb 89 08:44:48 GMT
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In article <25729@apple.Apple.COM> chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) writes:
>>	First, outliners.
>
>I use Acta for everything. It's a powerful, handy Desk Accessory (the new
>release has an application as well). It's not as powerful as More II, but I
>use it for all my random information storage (address lists, todo lists, 
>project lists, novel outlines, etc, etc ad nauseum). 

Something that might be cheaper is Idealiner, which was a Shareware
product last time I looked, but Acta is great.

>>	Then, freeform databases.  In DOS two that work well are
>>Tornado Notes, which allows you to pump data in without defining
>>fields or records and retrieve it via keywords;
>
>This sounds like a job for HyperCard. Toss data into it, then use 'find'
>commands to track it down. Filemaker II can do it as well with minimal
>definitions.
>

I think something that would be better for Thomas's needs would be
QuickDEX, a desk accessory freeform database.  I don't know the
exact limits of it, but from what I read, a software company was
using it to keep customer records.


>Chuq Von Rospach/Editor,OtherRealms/Member SFWA                 chuq@apple.com
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Welcome back, Chuq!

--- Alex
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