Over the past decade, the Internet has delivered a flood of email and web pages to us all, but the choices available to preserve and retrieve this information are inadequate. Email programs choke on overstuffed mail boxes. Databases demand a structure that this information simply does not posses.
Search engines show too little information about too many items.
Web pages disappear or change so often that bookmarks soon become useless. Copernican Technologies, Inc. was founded in 1996 to solve this problem by providing individuals with an augmented memory capacity previously available only to corporations. Boswell organizes this archive into a personal library where the information can be flexibly created, retrieved, manipulated, and displayed. Copernican Technologies introduced Boswell at MacWorld 2000 as a Beta release. Boswell 1.0 debuted later the same year.