My XP machine went up in a cloud of electrons, and I bought a powerful new box to replace it. However, the new box runs Windows 7, and Windows Cardfile, which I’ve been dragging around with me since Windows 3.1, won’t work under Windows 7. It’s a 16 bit program, and Windows 7 wants 64 bit or 32 bit only.
Cardfile is simple. It’s an emulation of a Rolodex’s function, with a simple text search added. You create a new card for each topic and give it a title, and record phone numbers, hints for fixing problems, anniversary dates and names, and so on. Then you can look them back up by either glancing at the title lines or doing a basic full text search against all the cards. You’re limited to about 16 40-character lines per card. It does very little, but that covers 90% of everything, and since it’s unstructured text, it is very adaptible. And, it’s fast to use, with no rules and no fields, apart from the title.
Nothing in Windows replaces it. There is a note card function in Outlook, but the designers made so many tie-ins to other Outlook features that it’s an ordeal to use. My company uses Lotus Notes, anyway. (Notes. Barf.)
Is there a free 64-bit version somewhere, or anything free that does an equivalent job with equal ease?