Reviews & User Comments

See what people are saying about the Personal Knowbase free-form text database and note organizer software...

User Comments

All user comments were unsolicited.

“Many thanks for the programme. Having been searching for this for many years - having once used an ancient copy of "Sidekick". Excellent value! I will recommend you.”

“I love it! And the more I use it the more I appreciate it! A great, intuitive, useful software product. I've been waiting years for this... Knowbase is the first thing I start in the morning and the last program I shut down at night. I use it constantly; it grows more powerful each day.”

“I have thousands of poems to catalog and this software is superb and incredibly fast. I can query my poetry with any keyword I can think of and view the document with ease. Initial skepticism gave way to enthusiasm when I realized there was no serious learning curve involved in using this excellent database. Thank you very much! I ought to have registered earlier!”

“Your software is wonderful! One of my MBA students flagged it for us. I have been promoting it in all my classes. I have used it now for at least 4 months and already have approximately 2,000 research articles, notations, etc., in it. It's quick, easy-to-use, and a real joy. Thanks for your efforts.”

“So I've been using Knowbase for about six months now, and I realized today that it's passed my ultimate software test: I use it every day, and I don't even notice it anymore. It's like having a second brain to keep stuff in. I'm a grad student, and I don't know how I functioned before I had this thing. It should be handed out to all college students in their orientation packets. :) Plus, I haven't found a single bug, and it's never crashed or erased my data. I never have to think about it. Good show, guys.”

“I recently updated my copy of Personal Knowbase... I just wanted to let you know this program is one of my favorites. I am still learning many of its capabilities and the more I learn, the more I use it. I have recommended it to several other people.”

“FANTASTIC program! I have Paper Tiger, and this program is FASTER and EASIER to work with!”

“I wanted to share with you all that I've been using the knowledgebase since the beginning of 2003 and it has been incredible. I have separate databases for work and for personal stuff; it does a great job of keeping things in order while at the same time quite easy to find. Keep up the great work.”

“I would just like to tell you that your software was exactly what I was looking for and I really enjoy it. I also would like to say it is an absolute joy to deal with people that sell quality software for a fair price and then deliver quality customer service.”

“I started using Personal Knowbase in November of 2002. Every time I open Personal Knowbase, I feel a small rush of pleasure and gratitude. I keep all my notes in it. The program's great strengths for me are its speed, simplicity, and flexibility. Often when organizing data for a computer program, one has to adjust one's own way of thinking to a program's limitations. Personal Knowbase imposes so few restrictions, that it gives me more freedom to think, and then it allows me to rearrange my notes as I want to.”

“Just a brief note to congratulate you folks on a product that was already super and with the current upgrade is nothing short of great! I have been using Personal Knowbase for a couple of years now and I really don't know how I got along without it... I do know that my "computer & internet life" would be much more difficult without your super program.”

“Love your program. Have moved most of my datafiles, notes, and other assorted bits and pieces over to new Knowbase data files. It's so nice to be able to FIND things easily. I have recommended the program to many friends.”

“The more I use the app, the more I like it. I find that organizing ideas in this way generates more ideas. Plus I love the knowledge that I can essentially throw thoughts into the same bucket, and as long as I keyword them, I can pull them out by category or a variety of searches.”

“Thank you! I played with the program for approx. 1 hour and purchased it. I am totally blind and use a screen reading program (jaws) and find your program to be very user friendly. I work for a Center for Assistive Technology and I was telling one of the trainer/evaluators about the program. Subsequently she recommended it for a client. I was looking for a program to help me get more organized especially at work. Personal Knowbase has helped me to achieve my goal! Thanks!”

“I think I tried out about every tree-based free-form info retrieval program out there. Every single one impressed me as clunky and hampered by the fact that each article had to be placed in a single cubbyhole--this simply doesn't fit the way we use and retrieve knowledge. I used to use a DOS program called SquareNote, which is the only other keyword-based knowledge-retrieval program that I had ever run across. ... Got my data moved over to Knowbase and have never looked back since.”

“Knowbase is a great product. I use it to store all the little random pieces of information I need. It makes me look like a genius...”

“I've used Personal Knowbase very effectively in saving stories & factoids for use in preaching.”

“I'm new to Personal Knowbase, and so far I love the tool. It's easy to use and very powerful.”

“Thanks for a *-*SUPER*-* product!”

“As I have written to you, I have been extremely satisfied with Knowbase. I have several databases running in KB, including cooking recipes, bibliographic notes, and - the most important - a collection of examination problems.”

“By the way, your software suits my needs exactly, and I have recommended it to many people over the last two years.”

“[The] Software is very useful to me and I look forward to continued development. The use of keywords is what sets this software apart from all the other software I evaluated. The simplicity and clean look are also important considerations.”

Software Reviews

November 6, 2005
John P. Mello Jr. review for TechNewsWorld
“If you're a packrat for information, Personal Knowbase will square away your untidy nest so you'll always find what you want when you want it.”

July, 2005
Kate Harrigan review for Writer's Digest
“If you have documents strewn willy-nilly all over your computer, Personal Knowbase provides an efficient means of pulling them all together.”

January, 2001
Shareware Junkies
5-star rating and review

“Organizing information is half the problem; the other half is retrieving it. This program solves that problem through a great indexing system...”

September 11, 2000
ZDNet's Software Library
5-star rating

“Whether it's saving and organizing recipes, addresses, notes, or messages, Personal Knowbase is up to the task. This clean-looking and intuitive PIM enables you to store and index freeform bits of textual information, using the keywords you choose.”

October 27, 2000
Yippee Shareware
rating and review:

“Very smart piece of organising software, guaranteed to help keep track of those varied and disparate bits of info that you need to access in a hurry. With the use of a neat reference system, the keywords you assign can provide a useful multi-access system for finding those hidden gems. The interface is reminiscent of Microsoft Word, giving a nice familiar area to work in and the multi windows system is one of the best of its kind, using resizing limits to good effect. Highly recommended for those that suffer from inspirational flashes.”

October 15, 2000
Aime Ryan review for Access Magazine (rated 3.75 out of 4)
“Fire the secretary, throw out the file cabinet and get Personal Knowbase to clean up your PC workspace...”