AskSam Pro v6.1.2.810 | 32 MbaskSam is the ideal application 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.
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Import Email into askSam. Create archives and turn them into knowledgebases.
Lightning Fast Searches
Once 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 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
"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
Easy to Design Databases Forms
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.
Using askSam's report writer you can easily create useful reports from all types of information. By clicking on an item in the report output you return to the appropriate document.
Organize Information with Folders
With the Dynamic Folder View, askSam lets you place your information in folders and sub-folders. Unlike most folder stuctures, 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.
Publishing Databases on the Internet
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.
"askSam is the fastest and easiest way I know to make data accessible on the Web."
- Wes Thomas - Web Developer Magazine
Using askSam it's easy to publish your information on the Web. The askSam Web site is powered by askSam database software.
"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
Collect Information from Anywhere
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
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.
Save Web Pages Directly to askSam
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
Turn Texts into Databases
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.
"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
Creating Your Own Reports
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.
"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
Sharing Databases on a Network
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.
askSam Professional - The Fastest
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.
