Index cards software

Posted by Wojciech
Aug 14, 2006 at 12:41 PM

>Derek Cornish wrote:

>How is your search going? Did askSam provide the features you
>needed?

Derek,

No, unfortunately not. While askSam is certainly a great program for collecting/searching different kinds of information, it is not flexible enough for my purpose. I mean that I want to able to change not only the number and structure of custom fields but also to design specific graphical layouts to imitate paper index cards. Besides - and of course this a matter of taste - the whole look of askSam is too stark for me, and the support seems to be poor (I sent them a message with some questions but never received their answers).

At the moment I use ndxCards, which I find quite useful for collecting several types of notes (bibliographical, quotations, paraphrases, ideas etc.) and than manipulating them using some outlining possibilities. And there are very supportive people.

However, the more I search and exercise various pieces of specialised software, the stronger is my feeling that designing… simple tables in Word (or WordPerfect) and making use of its different views - something that Peter promoted a couple of months ago - could be the most clear, fast and productive solution in this respect. In a table-card I can have as many cells-fields as I need and in a place I want, then I can insert any text, format it (I like different size of letters), use various colors and add arrows and shapes - both extremely important for me.

Wojciech