Find a poem you love and pop it into Info Select, and it will remain waiting from then on at the click of a key or the sweep of a mouse. Lift a quote out of the newspaper or off a Web site or a library book, and it drops into your lifetime databank for later recall by a powerful keyword search module. Likewise, your address book, your favorite recipes, the calendar of family birthdays, weddings, graduations and other passages become always at beck and call. And always the software stands by to let you drop a note with all the fonts, photos and other fripperies of big-league word processing. The idea with Info Select is to create what amounts to a database of unlimited size that is fed all of the random bits of information that swirl about our daily lives at home and work.
Items can be as small as a phone number and as large as a novel.
Each item gets created in a note. Each note comes up as a page in a word processor, and you can use a large palette of fonts and colors, embedded photos and such. As you create each note, a headline for it is displayed in a panel running down the left-hand side of the screen while the next note is displayed in a large window to the right. That panel to the left allows you to collect notes under topics and subtopics, much as you would keep stuff in a filing cabinet. For example, I love to collect folk music lyrics and have a topic called Folk.