IdeaList

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IdeaList
Final release
5.5 / 2007 (2007)
Written in C
Operating system DOS, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS =
Available inBritish English, French, German
Type Personal information manager
License Proprietary

IdeaList was a commercially marketed free form text database application originally published by Blackwell Software, a division of Blackwell Science Ltd. The incomplete software source for version 4.0 was sold in the late 1990s to Bekon Marketing Ltd. who continued to develop the product up to version 5.5 before trading ceased. [1] [2]

IdeaList originated as a DOS program, later 16 bit and 32 bit versions were developed for Microsoft Windows and Macintosh computers. The software allowed complete textual documents to be entered into a database and had built in text retrieval (search) functions to allow rapid retrieval of documents. It featured script programming to allow it to carry out tasks such as printing to labels, envelopes or letters and was also capable of publishing standalone search-only databases.

References

  • Jordan, Spencer (1 October 1995). "Idealist for Windows 3.0". History and Computing . 7 (3): 156–160. doi:10.3366/hac.1995.7.3.156. ISSN   0957-0144 . Retrieved 31 March 2025.
  • Fysh, David (1 September 1991). "IdeaList–A Free-Text Database Manager". The Economic Journal . 101 (408): 1325. doi:10.2307/2234464. ISSN   0013-0133 . Retrieved 31 March 2025.
  • Sharpe, Richard; Green-Armytage, Jonathan (23 June 1994). "Searching for the last word". Computer Weekly : 38–42. Retrieved 31 March 2025.
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