Real life is not clean! Data doesn't arrive in neat little zones and fields pre-marked with delimiters ΓÇö it comes as an overwhelming flood of information from diverse sources. "Free Text" lets you handle that kind of textual data. You can index and use technical manuals, religious tomes, archives of downloaded information, school notes, or any other files that you may have, as long as the files contain words which are separated by spaces or punctuation.
Free Text takes a database and builds machine-readable indices to every word. Then, Free Text lets you browse that database, move around in it, gather pieces of information together, and discover new things that were hidden by the masses of text ΓÇö gems or nuggets of valuable data. The computer does what it does best: meticulous organization of information and rapid execution of instructions. You do what you do best: thinking, pattern-recognition, intuition.
The result is symbiosis and synergy!
The next two cards contain an essay I wrote recently about free text information retrieval philosophy, user interfaces, and some salient features of Free Text itself.
