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Organize your information like the professionals. From best-selling authors to Pulitzer-prize winning journalists, askSam has been the choice of students, educators, researchers, information professionals, and individuals who want to manage their information. 

askSam is:

• Easy to learn and use.

• Flexible enough to handle all sorts of information.

• Powerful enough to grow with your needs and information. 

askSam is like a searchable filing cabinet for all of your information; anything including notes, documents, research, contact information, and email. Put it all in and instantly find whatever you're looking for. It's quick and easy with askSam.

Collect information from anywhere

• Type in your own notes, comments, and thoughts.
  

• Import word processing documents, email, spreadsheets, Web pages, PDF files, and more.
   

• Copy and paste from Microsoft Word, email, the Web, or any other application.

• Save Web pages
   

• Import documents you scan and OCR.
    

Organize and categorize your notes

• The askSam Notes template lets you record the title and source of your note. askSam automatically inserts the date the note was entered, and lets you categorize the note and enter keywords. Depending upon your needs, you can choose to add new items for your notes (for example for meeting notes, you might want to record who took part in the meeting).  askSam is flexible letting you manage your information the way that you want. 

Instantly find what you're looking for:

• Simply type the word(s) you're looking for and askSam instantly finds the information. askSam can search every word anywhere in your notes. 
   

• Search the full text of your documents, or restrict searches to specific fields (e.g. Title, Keywords, or Notes). 
   

• Search by date, use wildcard searches, fuzzy searches, even proximity searches. 
   

• askSam lists the documents containing your information and even shows the context of hits from the documents.

Put your information into askSam...

Import the information you collect into askSam. Rather than hundreds of files scattered about your hard drive, organize all sorts of different information in askSam. Bring in files from Microsoft Word, WordPerfect, the Web, Adobe Acrobat, email, and many other sources. 

Type notes, thoughts, comments and other information into askSam. askSam lets you create "forms" for you information so you set up fields for keywords, categories, subjects, dates, or anything else. These fields can help you better organize and manage your information. askSam comes with pre-defined templates, many of which have been specifically designed for researchers. 

Search and find...

Once your information is in askSam, you're ready to search. Simply type any words or phrases you wish to find, and askSam will list all the matching documents. With askSam you can search the full text of your documents, or you can restrict your search to specific fields (perhaps Title, Keywords, or Notes). You can search by date, use wildcard searches, fuzzy searches, even proximity searches. askSam offers the fastest and most powerful searches you'll find anywhere your information will be where it belongs... at your fingertips.