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MemoryMate 3.x

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edited May 2023 in Product Comments
imageMemoryMate 3.x

MemoryMate is an easy to use memory-resident free-form database. It automatically indexes content so all you have to do is type in a keyword to find your record. As a free-form database, you can use it much like a Personal Information Manager, but you can use it for any kind of data you want. You can set it to show you "reminders" at a certain date.

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  • MadIvanMadIvan
    Both Memory Mate & Instant Recall suffer from the Y2K bug, if you install it on a trip down memory lane set the computer clock back to any convenient year before 2000.
    Memory Mate & Instant Recall were both incredibly flexible & the instant random access across the records were awesome for the period, and both in their time were my go-to PIM's for 18 years. Happy days!
  • Alex_PhilAlex_Phil
    --- "Instant Recall" was the first version of this program. It was conceived and implemented by Michael Fremont, and first distributed by Precept, a Palo Alto firm, in 1986. Broderbund took over marketing and distribution of the same work, as one word: "MemoryMate." Like Borland's "Sidekick," the program was a "TSR" - "Terminate-and-Stay-Resident" app. It was always at the ready - better than Alt-Tabbing through all your open Windows. In the days of character-based documents and displays, it was a wonderfully fast and efficient tool.
    --- Writing to Sue? Pull up Memo with a hotkey, type Ctrl-F sue, and all the records containing "sue" come up. Know too many "Sue" to page through? Type Ctrl-N and some other item to distinguish the one you want. Copy the address block in the MemoryMate record, and paste it into your document. Can't remember who called you from META last week? Key in a few traits you do remember, and it all comes back.
    --- "MemoMate" soon became its colloquial name. The speed and simplicity still appeal to my work. It's a way to get rid of all those Post-Its without feeling you are losing their information. Good typists are trained to keep their hands in place at the "home keys." Once you learn Control-key commands, or "keyboard shortcuts," they are MUCH faster than taking a hand off the keyboard, finding the mouse, figuring out which teeny diagram Microsoft uses to mean "Select font and size" this week, finding those... and then getting your hands back in position to enter text. MemoMate is great for folks who work this way.
    --- As other have mentioned, Y2K had an impact. There are fairly easy workarounds. For an entry created or modified in the current year, search on "c>1/1" or "m<=5/1" and you get this year's records instantly. It's not a major problem for MemoMate's operation. If others are interested, or ahead of me, drop a post. Be well.
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