# IdeaList

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|discontinued         = yes
|latest release version = 5.5 
|latest release date    = {{release date|2007}}
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| programming language   = [C](/source/C_(programming_language))
| operating system       = [DOS](/source/DOS), [Microsoft Windows](/source/Microsoft_Windows), [Mac OS](/source/Mac_OS)            = 
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| language               = British English, French, German
| genre                  = [Personal information manager](/source/Personal_information_manager) 
| license                = [Proprietary](/source/Proprietary_software)
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'''IdeaList''' was a commercially marketed free form text database application originally published by Blackwell Software, a division of [Blackwell Science Ltd](/source/Wiley-Blackwell). The incomplete software source for version 4.0 was sold in the late 1990s to Bekon Marketing Ltd. who continued to develop the product up to version 5.5 before trading ceased.<ref>[http://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/ltd/bekon-marketing  Companies House details - Bekon Marketing]</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://osbloggery.blogspot.com/2007/12/after-idealist.html |title=After Idealist - 2007 |access-date=2019-01-14 |archive-date=2019-01-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190115182234/https://osbloggery.blogspot.com/2007/12/after-idealist.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>

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IdeaList originated as a DOS program, later 16 bit and 32 bit versions were developed for [Microsoft Windows](/source/Microsoft_Windows) and [Macintosh](/source/Macintosh) computers. The software allowed complete textual documents to be entered into a database and had built in text retrieval (search) functions to allow rapid retrieval of documents. It featured script programming to allow it to carry out tasks such as printing to labels, envelopes or letters and was also capable of publishing standalone search-only databases.

== References ==
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:*<small>{{cite journal |last1=Jordan |first1=Spencer |title=Idealist for Windows 3.0 |journal=[History and Computing](/source/History_and_Computing) |date=1 October 1995 |volume=7 |issue=3 |pages=156–160 |doi=10.3366/hac.1995.7.3.156 |url=https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/hac.1995.7.3.156 |access-date=31 March 2025 |issn=0957-0144|url-access=subscription }}</small>
:*<small>{{cite journal |last1=Fysh |first1=David |title=IdeaList–A Free-Text Database Manager |journal=[The Economic Journal](/source/The_Economic_Journal) |date=1 September 1991 |volume=101 |issue=408 |pages=1325 |doi=10.2307/2234464 |jstor=2234464 |url=https://academic.oup.com/ej/article-abstract/101/408/1325/5190094 |access-date=31 March 2025 |issn=0013-0133|url-access=subscription }}</small>
:*<small>{{cite journal |last1=Sharpe |first1=Richard |last2=Green-Armytage |first2=Jonathan |title=Searching for the last word. |journal=[Computer Weekly](/source/Computer_Weekly) |date=23 June 1994 |pages=38–42 |url=https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CA15560689&sid=googleScholar&v=2.1&it=r&linkaccess=abs&issn=00104787&p=AONE&sw=w&userGroupName=anon%7E319bac91&aty=open-web-entry |access-date=31 March 2025 |language=English}}</small>

== External links ==
*[http://groups.google.co.uk/group/IdealistDB Idealist Google Group]
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*[http://www.chr.org.uk/idealist.htm CHIC - Idealist in Museums]
<!-- *[http://www.uwe.ac.uk/hlss/history/staff_pwardley_bhdp.shtml Univ of Bristol - Bristol Historical Database Project] broken -->
*[http://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/hac.1995.7.3.156 (abstract) Idealist for Windows 3.0 ISSN 1753-8548 EUP]
*[https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16466866W/Idealist_for_Windows_User's_Guide Idealist for Windows User's Guide]
*[https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16466865W/Idealist_for_Macintosh_User's_Guide Idealist for Macintosh User's Guide]

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Adapted from the Wikipedia article [IdeaList](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IdeaList) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IdeaList?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.