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Take Control with askSam
The World's Most Popular Free-Form Database

Suffering from information overload? Don't worry, askSam will help you turn your information into a valuable asset. askSam is a different kind of database - a database designed for users rather than programmers. 


Imagine a database flexible enough to organize a decade of email, testimony from court cases, research notes, or simple names and addresses. askSam is used by researchers, students, investigators, and businesses around the world to organize and search all sorts of information.

 
The askSam Difference
askSam is not a traditional database. It's a whole new way to manage information. Traditional databases are designed to handle structured data. They require you to pre-define a structure and force you to shoe-horn your information into this structure.
  • askSam requires no predefined structure or field lengths.
  • askSam is easy to use. You can search without learning a query language. You can create reports without programming.
  • askSam is flexible. You can combine both free-form and fielded information in the database.
 
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.

 
"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 a 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.

 

 
Organize Information with Hypertext
Use Hypertext Links to turn your information into a fully searchable, easily navigable database. Hypertext lets you link a word or phrase to information in another location. By simply clicking on a Hypertext Link you can jump from one Document to another; jump from one file to another, run reports, execute any menu command, or go anywhere on the Internet. It's a great way to publish information on a network

 

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.

 

 
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.

 

"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

 

"A fluid and flexible software that frees you from the constraints of traditional databases."
- Writers Digest

 

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