IBM PC USERS Group InfoSelectInfoSelect

Presented by Herb Shear 17 October 2005

Herb Shear presented InfoSelectInfoSelect• On 17 October 2005, IBM Facility, Menlo Park, CA

Lots of practical and useful ideas on– How to store and retrieve various forms of

information using InfoSelect – Plus showing storage examples

InfoSelect (Microlog.com)InfoSelect (Microlog.com)

Offers no trial copy

But there are a number of options

• Current version price $249.95

• Subscription Price $49.95 per year

Check out these prices at their website

www.microlog.com

InfoSelectInfoSelect Prices from Website

InfoSelectInfoSelect More than a DB search product

• Personal address book functions• Store location directions & phone numbers• Use your imagination to meet your information

management challenges• Herb goes into the details of a general purpose filing

system and demonstrates it with pictures and forms • Herb showed us one designed to eliminate the CD

shuffle problem.

InfoSelectInfoSelect Screen Shotsee http://www.innovationtools.com/Tools/SoftwareDetails.asp?a=68

InfoSelectInfoSelect Screen Shotshttp://www.miclog.com/

Cabinet with InfoSelectInfoSelect sources

CD Storageby index number

Floppy Diskette Storage

InfoSelectInfoSelect Powerful Search Engine

• Content searches not just file name

• Boolean search capabilities

• Search within even closed files

• Search by type font

• Field of gray identifies the number of hits with red dots

Additional Products

Herb presented lots of practical ideas.

Other products for use with InfoSelect:

• Clipmate from Thornsoft.com – used as an extension of Windows Clipboard

• Label Factory – used for printing labels on CD sleeves,

envelopes, etc. to store the physical objects indexed by your InfoSelect