Welcome to Abitus PIM for Windows!



ABITUS OVERVIEW
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Abitus 2000 Shareware for Windows is a PIM with fully customizable Address Book for Contacts, phone dialer, phone log history and database with user-definable fields for Inventories, Collections and Notes.
The Abitus UNIVERSAL DATABANK is ready to enter any type of data, as your personal data, data about your family, friends, customers, clients, partners, employees, data about events, dates, anniversaries, about your collections of books, music, your house, car, possessions, recipes, tips, and any type of information you want, without need of a previous format. Anything you can describe with words has place on Abitus databank. You can ingress thousands of different types of records and each record can contains thousands of fields or links.
The Abitus "LINKING MACHINE" allows you to link any record with any other record, any record with  URLs, email adresses or any file on your PC.
So, you can link people with friends, contact's records with company's records, your computer's record with the dealer's record, with the service's record. News with sources, ideas with authors, etc. Linking files you can link, for example, the record of your house with the photo.jpg, a singer with its song, the actress with the movie.
The Abitus LAUNCHER runs linked files (JPGs, MPGs, AVIs, DOCs, HTMs, MP3s, MIDIs, URLs, etc.), programs, your email client...
The Abitus FINDER let you retrieve a record simply typing its name or any field content.
Typing a word will list all the records containing it.
The Abitus SCREEN shows records as notebook's pages with each Field or Link on one Line.
Long fields show their complete contents by one click.
Links are in blue and are showed by double clicks.
If you have a line: Name____John, double clicking on Name will list all the records with a name, double clicking on John will list every John on the databank.
If you have a line: Category_____Book, double clicking on Category will list all the records having Category, double clicking on Book will list all the books.
Lists are showed as lined Pages too.
The Abitus NAVIGATOR let you explore a la Web, between pages through blue links.
On a line: Link____Peter, go to Peter's record by double clicking on Peter. 
On a line: File____readme.doc, open the document by double clicking on readme.doc.
On a line: URL_____www.nasa.gov, launch your browser on said URL by double clicking.
On a line: Email___smontabo@kagi.com, start a new message by double clicking.
On a line: Phone___555-5555, dial up the phone by double clicking on the number. 

Do not use poor flat files, complex relational databases or record-oriented databases with no global views.
Abitus implements Propositional Data Model, a better way to represent Reality. 
It owns a unique and universal data file structure whose form is independent of your data.
Because there is no need to design, create or modify a structure, edition can be made in real time: aggregate new type records, aggregate or delete fields within one record or make new links. The automatic index system keep ordered each data unit for fast views and navigation.
Abitus is structured, flexible, easy and fast.



FEATURES
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Makes links between contacts for easy Web style navigation.
Makes links between records and files on your PC.
Launches linked files.
Go to URLs.
Makes new messages for email addresses.
Dial phones.
Creates notes for phone dialogs.
Keeps call history records for every interlocutor storing comments, date, time and duration for every dialog.
Auto-redials busy numbers.
Receives parameters for dialing time and time between redials.
Predefined data-entry Forms with useful fields.
40 user-definable Forms, each with user-definable fields.
Forms allow links between Records.
Uses any Form or Record as Template for new Forms.
Freely, randomly, you can add up to 199 user-definable fields to any record.
Makes Backups.
Imports Xbase databases, CSV files and other Abitus banks.



Installing Abitus
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1.  From Windows Explorer double click on AbitusPIM.exe.
2.  Follow the on-screen prompts of the Install program.
    Abitus will be installed onto your system.
3.  You will can init Abitus from Start button, Programs item, Abitus directory.



Agreement
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By using or distributing the Shareware Version of Abitus you agree to the following terms and conditions. The copyright holder retains all rights except as expressly provided in this Agreement. You are licensed to use Abitus for evaluation purposes without charge for a period of 30 days. You are licensed to make as many copies of Abitus and documentation as you wish, give exact copies to anyone, and distribute Abitus and documentation in its unmodified form via any means. You are prohibited from charging, or requesting donations, for any such copies, however made. Exceptionally, disk vendors may charge a fee, not exceeding USD 10, for media and duplication. You are prohibited from distributing Abitus and/or documentation with other products (commercial or otherwise) without prior written permission. You may not sub license, assign, transfer, loan, rent or lease Abitus. Abitus may not be reverse-engineered, disassembled, or otherwise inspected for procedures and/or methods or contents of coding; or modified in any way. Abitus is provided AS IS without any warranty, expressed or implied, including, without limitation, the warranties of merchantability and of fitness for any purpose. The person using Abitus bears all risk as to the quality and performance of Abitus. The author and its suppliers will not be liable for any damages, direct or consequential, incurred through the use of Abitus. If you do not agree with these terms and conditions, do not use or distribute Abitus.

One single-user registered copy of Abitus (USD 29) may be dedicated to a single person or to a single computer.

Register: http://order.kagi.com/cgi-bin/r1.cgi?MN
Comments: smontabo@kagi.com



Abitus is Copyright  1997-2000 by Adrian Montabone. All Rights Reserved.



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