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askSam, from askSam Systems, was a "free form" database desktop application that competed with a number of other
personal information manager A personal information manager (often referred to as a PIM tool or, more simply, a PIM) is a type of application software that functions as a personal organizer. The acronym PIM is now, more commonly, used in reference to personal information manag ...
(PIM) applications. It was noted for organizing disparate information such as email messages, documents, text files, spreadsheets, addresses, web pages into dynamic folders, and allowing these to be easily searched, and the results exported to spreadsheets or as a report. The last version was askSam 7, released in July 2008.


History

The Florida company askSam Systems was formed in 1985 and located in Perry, Florida. The earliest versions of askSam were for
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, but later versions were for Microsoft Windows. As well as the base desktop version, there were Professional versions with a more powerful search, and networked versions. A web-publishing option was also available with "askSam Electronic Publisher". When 4.0 was released in 2001, so was web publisher package ''AskSam Web Publisher 4.0'', described as "letting you make the database searchable in any browser." By 2004, the competitive landscape included "names like ADM, .. BrainStorm, Chandler, Enfish, InfoSelect, iRider, Lookout, Onfolio, TheBrain and Zoot.". Asksam was ahead of its time in many ways, and today applications like Roam Research, Craft.do, Logseq, and Obsidian are beginning to fill the ability Asksam had for hyperlinked rapid note retrieval, though still unmatched for reporting. In 2014 personal information manager
MyInfo MyInfo is a personal information manager developed by Milenix Software. MyInfo collects, organizes, edit, stores, and retrieves personal-reference information like text documents, web snippets, e-mails, notes, and files from other applications. La ...
added support for importing text-delimited AskSam files.


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Lotus Agenda Agenda is a DOS-based personal information manager, designed by Mitch Kapor, Ed Belove and Jerry Kaplan, and marketed by Lotus Software. Lotus Agenda is a "free-form" information manager: the information need not be structured at all befor ...
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Lotus Organizer Lotus Organizer is a discontinued personal information manager (PIM). It was initially developed by Threadz, a small British software house, reaching version 3.0. Organizer was subsequently acquired by Lotus Development Corporation, for whom the pa ...
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MyInfo MyInfo is a personal information manager developed by Milenix Software. MyInfo collects, organizes, edit, stores, and retrieves personal-reference information like text documents, web snippets, e-mails, notes, and files from other applications. La ...


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