When you're a freelance journalist, every second counts. Extra moments spent looking up phone numbers can mean getting scooped by The New York Times. That's why I've become a convert to InfoGenie, an address book/database that thinks almost as fast as I do.
InfoGenie stores data on "cards" strung together to create a free-format database. That makes a lot of sense for my needs: some people in my address book have only two numbers, while others have 20. Searching for data is fast: enter a few words and hit Return. InfoGenie comes back with all possible entry matches.
The program can even search for cards that contain two phrases. For example, you can search your database for "pizza and 617" to find all of the pizza parlors in the metropolitan Boston area.
What's still missing is the ability to see more than one record at a time. (The new version will fix this and let me store Web addresses.) Nevertheless, it's still by far the fastest, most useful Mac or PC personal information manager that I've found.
InfoGenie: US$79.95. Casady & Greene: (800) 359 4920, +1 (408) 484 9228.
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