askSam - The Database for Information

The Most Popular Free-Form Database for Professors, Researchers, and Writers

Traditional databases are too difficult and too structured. That's why most professors, researches, and writers are still using index cards, notepads, or word processors to organize their notes and research.

askSam changes this. It's a wonderfully simple way to organize all sorts of information. Like a word processor, askSam lets you record notes, ideas, bibliographical entries and any other information. Like a database, askSam lets you search, sort, and organize this information. No more shuffling through index cards or papers. All your facts and figures are instantly at your fingertips.

Here's how askSam can go to work for you!

askSam was specifically designed to help you organize the flood of information you have to deal with every day.  Not only does askSam let you type in your information, but it also comes with a wide range of import filters to let you import e-mail files, word processing documents, text files, database files, and information from the Internet. askSam is the ideal program for organizing:

     Ÿ Research notes

     Ÿ Bibliographies

     Ÿ E-mail

     Ÿ Newsgroup messages

     Ÿ Lectures

     Ÿ Information from the Web

     Ÿ Random ideas

With askSam, all you do is type in or import the information.  askSam can then help you locate any document at any time in just a matter of seconds!

What makes askSam different.

askSam was created by Mack McKinney, a university professor, who discovered that most information didn't fit neatly into a database.

Traditional databases were designed to handle structured data, but forced you to shoe-horn your information into this rigid structure.  A structured database is a wonderful tool for an accounting package or a customer database - but it's not well suited for managing notes, ideas, and bibliographies.

askSam was designed to handle free-form texts. It's flexible enough to manage all types of information. Best of all, askSam is easy to use. If you can use a word processor, you can use askSam!

askSam makes getting organized easy!

With askSam, it doesn't matter whether your information appears in one line, a few paragraphs, or several hundred pages.  Once your information is entered into askSam, you can instantly retrieve documents using words, phrases, proximity searches, and more!

But that's not all . . . askSam also makes managing structured databases a breeze.  You can store student names and information, bibliographies, and other structured information in an askSam database, then retrieve any entry, instantly!