Personal Knowbase version 2.1
Copyright 1998-2002 Bitsmith Software

We are pleased that you have decided to evaluate Personal Knowbase.
This is a fully functional 30-day evaluation version.  Personal Knowbase
2.1 requires Windows 95 or later, or Windows NT4 or later.

What is Personal Knowbase?

  Personal Knowbase is a free-form keyword-based information organizer.
  Build a personal knowledge base of all your notes, messages, and
  ideas.  Store and index your information in one place for easy
  retrieval.  Get rid of all those bits of paper and little disk files
  that you can never find when you need them.
  
  Why Use Keywords?
  
  Indexing with keywords sets Personal Knowbase apart from other free-
  form database software.  Remember, it doesn't matter how easily you
  can store information if you can't find it.
  
  Software that provides only string searches isn't enough.  Even a
  complete text search on any variation of "motherhood" won't locate a
  great quote like "The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world."
  Using keywords, you can find information easily by association.
  
  Software that categorizes your notes each into a single category isn't
  enough.  Does a note on books about national parks go under the Books
  category or the Travel category?  The answer is both!  Using keywords,
  you can cross reference your notes with as many keywords as you need.

Features

  * Record text information in articles of any size.
  * Format article text with fonts, color, boldfacing, and more.
  * Quickly access related information using keywords.
  * Combine keywords in queries with operators AND, OR, and NOT.
  * Link to Internet addresses within articles.
  * Tag commonly used articles for instant reference.
  * Associate file and Internet address attachments with articles.
  * Create an Index Report of articles associated with keywords.
  * Search for and replace text strings.
  * Search and sort by the dates when items were last updated.
  * Import information from text, Cardfile, HTML, and RTF files.
  * Import from delimited and custom formatted text files.
  * Export information to text, Cardfile, HTML, and RTF files.
  * Print articles or lists of articles.
  * Learn about Personal Knowbase with a detailed Tutorial.

To install Personal Knowbase:

  1. If you downloaded Personal Knowbase as a ZIP file, unzip the ZIP
     file that you downloaded into a temporary folder.
  2. Run PKSETUP.EXE from this temporary folder:
     a. From the Start menu, select "Run".
     b. Type the full folder name of the PKSETUP program and press
        Enter.  For example, if your temporary folder is c:\temp, then
        type "c:\temp\pksetup" and press Enter.
  3. Follow the installation instructions on the screen.

For vendor information, please see the file VENDOR.TXT.  For license and
ordering information, please see the corresponding topic from the
Personal Knowbase Help Contents.

Order price is US$39.95 (plus shipping & handling if you want a CD
shipped).

If you have problems or questions about Personal Knowbase, please
contact Bitsmith Software:

  * at our web site at:
       http://www.bitsmithsoft.com

  * by e-mail at:
       info@bitsmithsoft.com

  * by mail at:
       Bitsmith Software
       P.O. Box 84
       Pinole, CA  94564-0084
       USA

  * by telephone at:
       (510) 724-1821

