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The World's Most Popular
Free-Form Database
askSam7 is here! Powerful new features include a brand
new look, 30% faster searches, automatic updates, drag
and drop attachments, web search, a start page, and more.
Plus, more than 350 other enhancements and corrections
make this the best askSam ever. Try it today!
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askSam is the ideal application to organize your information.
askSam is a different kind of database - a free-form database designed
for users rather than programmers. askSam makes it easy to turn anything
into a searchable database: email messages, word processing documents, text
files, spreadsheets, addresses, Web pages, and more.
askSam gives you the power of a database without the complexity. No need to program or learn
a complicated query language. With askSam, you simply import or enter information, and you're
ready to search. askSam users range from individuals organizing email, addresses, and research
notes to corporations and government organizations managing
meeting minutes, regulations, policy manuals, and
corporate databases.
Try askSam - and talk to us (or email) - we're happy to show you how askSam can work for you.
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Import, type, or scan any
amount of information into askSam, organize into
folders, add notes, and search for any word or phrase.
Never lose your information.
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Fast Searches |
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your information is in askSam, you're ready to search.
Not only can you search on the contents of fields, but
you can search on free-form text.
askSam 7 is now more that
30% faster than previous versions of askSam. Plus,
greatly enhanced search results and a tabbed file
interface makes searching multiple databases simple.
askSam offers a wider
variety of searches than any other database program and
some of the fastest and most powerful searches you'll
find anywhere.
askSam supports the following types of searches:
- Full-text searches for
any word or phrase
- Wildcard searches with
* and ?
- Boolean searches (AND,
OR, and NOT)
- Proximity searches
- Numeric searches
(>, <, >=, <=, <>)
- Date searches
- Fuzzy searches
- Search through
multiple askSam databases
- Case sensitive
searches
- Search within Search
Results
- One click save of
Search Results to Excel
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"I've
used a lot of different tools for searching, but I've
yet to find anything that approaches the depth, variety,
strength, and sophistication of the search tools that
askSam provides."
- Rick Gates - Database Magazine |
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to Design Databases Forms |
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Setting
up structured database is a breeze with askSam. You
simply use the Entry Form Wizard to set up your form.
askSam Entry Forms are flexible and easy. Type in names
for your fields and you're ready to go.
When you add a document simply fill out the fields.
askSam fields can automatically expand making room for
all your information. It doesn't matter whether you
enter an extra word, sentence, paragraph, or 100 pages
of text. askSam can easily handle it. This makes askSam
ideal for storing notes, transcripts, and other textual
information. Just type (or import) the information, and
you can search for anything.
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| Organize
Information with Folders |
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With the Dynamic
Folder View, askSam lets you place your information in
folders and sub-folders. Unlike most folder
structures, askSam Folders are displayed
dynamically based on the contents of your database. With Folders, you
can quickly change the way you view and navigate your
information. This is a powerful way to
analyze your information.
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| Publishing
Databases on the Internet |
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The
askSam Web Publisher makes it easy to publish your
askSam databases on the Web. The Web Publisher lets
users view, search, and navigate through your askSam
databases using a Web browser. No need to convert
information to HTML, the Web Publisher automatically
makes your information available on the Internet.
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"askSam
is the fastest and easiest way I know to make data
accessible on the Web."
- Wes Thomas - Web
Developer Magazine
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Using askSam it's easy to publish
your information on the Web. Easily publish Policy and
Procedure manuals, documentation, ebooks, legislation,
databases and more. For specific examples see our list
of FREE ebooks
- all produced with askSam and available to search
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"Whether your information is simple, structured, or
random, askSam provides an easy way to stash it and an
easy way to find it again. Best of all, since it behaves
like a word processor, you won't spend weeks learning to
use it."
- PC Computing
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Collect Information from Anywhere |
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You are now able to access more information than ever
before - on the Internet, via email, on CD-ROMS, or in
files on your hard drive. askSam lets you turn this
information into searchable databases.
You can type information directly into askSam, or you
can import information from a wide variety of sources
including:
- Adobe PDF Files
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Text files
- RTF files
- HTML files
- Word processing
documents (Microsoft Word and WordPerfect)
- Email messages
(Microsoft Outlook, Eudora, PocoMail, Netscape etc.)
- Databases (Microsoft
Access, dBASE, Paradox, ODBC)
- Spreadsheets
(Microsoft Excel)
- Comma-delimited,
Tab-delimited, and Fixed-position data
askSam can also import
documents scanned using an OCR application.
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Save Web Pages Directly to askSam |
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askSam lets you save Web pages directly from your
Internet Explorer browser into a searchable database.
askSam makes it simple to add Web information into your
databases - just right click on a page, choose "Save Web
Page to askSam" and select your database.
- Permanent, searchable web page
archive
- Save complete Web pages -
graphics, frames, & formats
- Integrates with
Internet Explorer
- Add notes, comments, &
keywords
- Organize pages with
folders & sub-folders
- Save pages into an
Entry Form
- Save single pages,
entire Web sites, or selected sections
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Turn Texts into Databases |
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askSam's Automatic Field Recognition enables you to turn
information into an instant database. askSam can
automatically identify words that provide structure in
your information and use these words as fields. For
example, email messages often contains words like "To:",
"From:", "Date:", and "Subject:" askSam lets you
automatically use these words as fields. You can search,
sort, and even create reports using these words as
fields.
Information is valuable only if you can find it when you
need it. With askSam you can organize your information
into dynamically generated folders and askSam offers a
wider variety of searches than any other database
program. Plus, you can type your own notes for each
document, add attachments and more.
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"And the best part: If you're entering information later
and discover you didn't leave enough room in one part of
the screen, it only takes a touch of a key to change it.
You can completely change your database in midstream
without any ill effects on the rest of the information
you've already typed."
- Heather Newman - The Tennessean
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Creating Your Own Reports |
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No programming is necessary to create great looking
reports. Simply use askSam's built in Report Writer to
drag and drop field names to the desired position on the
screen. An askSam report can be as simple as a sorted
list of names and telephone numbers, or it can contain
grouped fields, field totals, and summaries. You can
even include memo fields in a report.
Using askSam's report writer you can easily create
useful reports from all types of information. Click on
an item in the report output and return to the
appropriate document.
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"Frequent users will appreciate how easy it is to design
reports from askSam files. Laying out a report is as
simple as dragging and dropping different bits of
information onto the page... This action would take some
serious scripting in normal database programs, but it's
a push of a button in askSam. And every report is a live
summary, which means if you want more detail on an item,
a double-click will take you right to the document it
came from."
- Heather Newman - The Tennessean
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Sharing Databases on a Network |
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The network version of askSam allows multiple users to
simultaneously add, edit, and search in askSam
databases. With the network version you can make
information available to all users on a network -
customer databases, marketing information, policy
manuals, phone messages, and more.
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askSam Professional - The Fastest |
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askSam is available in two versions: the Standard
version and the Professional version. askSam
Professional includes all the features of the Standard
version and adds full-text indexing to give you
lightning-fast searches. askSam Professional is ideal
for large databases - it lets you instantly search
through hundreds of megabytes and thousands of
documents.
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"askSam is an essential part of my software tool chest. I can research and collect data from anywhere and any source. Once it is in askSam I can edit, rearrange, organize, and search the information easily. Then I can present it and make it totally useful for other people via the web or CD. Fantastic!"
-- Valda Hilley, Author, Literary Agent, Teaching Consultant, Pack rat, and President, Convergent Press, Ltd. |
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