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Unstructured PIM?

4 replies · 1,514 views · Started 21 October 2002

Does any of you know of an unstructured PIM that would work on 9210? A software like Info Select? They have made a Palm version of it, but that does not help 😞 I'd like to get all my random little bits of info in a single database where I could find it again with a simple search.

Ideas, anyone?

I think you need something where you can put all sorts of stuff in with a structure you choose, and even documents?

If I remember correctly these apps can do this:
SmallBase and Mylist

IMHO the best unstructured pim is ASKSAM - you can find a demo in http://www.asksam.com/asksam/askdemo.exe - it runs nicely on XTM dos emulator. Too bad there's no epoc version, only dos and win, and it's expensive, too. I have an old dos registered version, and a windows 4.0 registered version. I used them a lot when my pda was as big as a laptop :roll:

Me, I would be willing to pay up to 50 Euro (but cheaper is better 😃 ) for a nice unstructured PIM for my 9210, capable of classifying all the tids and bits and text and htm and pdf files or accept text from keyboard input... and of retrieving what I need in a flicker (of course needs to build an index to do that).

Thanks for all the suggestions. I downloaded XimplifyMyList and will try it out. It seems to be able to search for any word that is included in the list columns - which is what I want - but not in the memo side. It can include documents (or at least links?) but probably cannot search for words in them. The column format also needs to be defined in advance and cannot be changed later, which is another downside. But we'll see :-?

A while ago I downloaded MyDiary from L3 Solutions for the same purpose. It can search for any word in all the entries. The only problem was that it insisted on using mm/dd/yy format (which is not the standard in Finland) and refused to accept any entries with another type of date. So in every entry the date had to be manually changed. Stupid :x It also gave a lot of error messages, and crashes. Perhaps memory issues? And the mood scale was not really what I needed...

Asksam seems expensive (same as full price for Infoselect) and if it doesn't exist for 9210, it really doesn't help.

But I appreciate any new suggestions and comments. Maybe someone gets an idea to start building a software like this. Synchronization capability with the PC would also be nice feature...