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Posted by Steve
Sep 17, 2014 at 07:03 PM
Sorry, I didn’t see this thread until today.
Quote: >>But it’s interesting to see how other programs try to do things, for example Chaos Intellect: They have been developed with e-mails in mind, but for all the rest, they don’t do so well either.<<
I’ve used Intellect as my CRM since 2008. I want to correct one thing here, Chaos started in 1994 I recall as one of the first popular shareware contact management / ToDo / Calendar programs targeting small business. No Email was integrated until somewhere around 2006-ish I think.
All the “parts” of Intellect work very well - for me. The hub of integration though is the Contacts section. That is what is important to the developers and to the vast majority of their users I think.
BUT, what it does not do is allow reports that integrate all sections. For example, I can’t run a report on old tasks and tag the contacts associated with those old tasks.
Something that Chaos does offer that I think helps them a lot from the financial side is their online or cloud if you prefer option. That is an annual fee. Not cheap, but I use it to have access remotely when needed and to sync my Blackberry. Works very well.
Steve
Posted by Daly de Gagne
Sep 18, 2014 at 04:42 PM
Y’day’s post prompted me to seek the askSam website. I could not find a current website which would allow me to click through to it. The websites which appeared to be askSam’s sites would give me an error msg saying I had no authority, and would not open.
Third party software downloading sites still offer askSam.
I think it is probably safe to say that askSam has either died or is in its death throes.
Daly
Posted by behirsch
Oct 14, 2014 at 07:55 PM
Is there any database program that will import (and convert) askSam files? Or is there any way to save a file and its contents in any other format?
Posted by Steve
Oct 15, 2014 at 09:58 AM
askSam can export to .html, .txt, .csv, and .rtf . All database programs can import those formats.
Posted by xtabber
Oct 16, 2014 at 09:44 PM
behirsch wrote:
Is there any database program that will import (and convert) askSam
>files? Or is there any way to save a file and its contents in any other
>format?
An old post on the Kinook forum describes how to convert from askSam to Ultra Recall.
http://www.kinook.com/Forum/archive/index.php/t-1078.html