I write most of my columns and other stuff in Info Select, and my database now contains virtually every word I have written since 1993. Likewise, when I use the Internet to read news stories, magazines and other stuff, I copy it and then paste the words into my Info Select database. You can run Info Select in the background and then paint, copy and paste in text from Web pages. This pack-rat approach to life creates a mother lode of information that is both hugely valuable and highly personal. The topping on the digital dessert is Info Select's awesome search feature that lets you type in a keyword or two to recall whatever is needed.
Boolean searches make accurate recall a cakewalk.
My unsold novel is stored under its own topic, as are the unedited versions of my books that have sold. So is this column. So is my last salary review. So is John McCormick's original e-mail asking me to serve up a few columns on the best and brightest on the Binary Beat.