It may be the best description one can make in one sentence though. If you've never heard of askSam, think of it as a word processor and a database combined in one program, one which is very easy to use by the ordinary person. The word processor and database functions in askSam are fairly rudimentary but satisfactory for most basic purposes. A number of different fonts and font sizes are supported, as are bold, italic, and underlined text. You can execute most commands with an icon from the toolbar, and the toolbar can be customized, although not with as much flexibility as there is with other programs.
All word processors create separately named and tracked files on the hard disk for each document.
By contrast, a group of five, fifty, or five hundred different word processing documents, all dealing with one topic, can be collected and stored in one single askSam file. Storage in a single file means that all of the documents can be processed at one time using askSam's powerful search and reporting functions. Further, askSam allows you to create bookmarks and hypertext links using those bookmarks, to allow you to annotate and cross-reference the documents in a coherent manner. The hypertext links may be to bookmarks in the same file, bookmarks in another askSam file, executable programs, or URLs. Pro are limited.