What the heck, here's a great excuse to resurrect this thread and see if anyone out there wants to make a Tablet QuickDex:

David Pogue, the NY Times' tech columnist, just published a column called: "Pogue’s Productivity Secrets Revealed."

In it, he offers very little in the way of software recommendations apart from this:

"I know where everything is. Years ago, I started using an address-book program that's now called iData 3. It's a freeform database, meaning that the 'cards' in this database don't have separate fields for Name, Street, City and so on; instead, you can type or paste whatever you want into each freeform card.

"This program doesn't play well with field-based contact managers like Google's or the iPhone's, but the beauty is that it holds whatever you want: recipes, brainstorms, article fragments, driving directions, lists, Web addresses and so on. And you can find anything in a fraction of a second. (Actually, iData now lets you create field-based databases as well, but my freeform database has been growing since about 1988 and I'm not about to convert it.)"

So what's this iData? As the iData website makes clear, it's just the successor to QuickDex, and it's available for the Mac and for the iPhone.

In other words, David Pogue, probably America's best-known technology journalist, has been using QuickDex since 1988, and it's largely to QuickDex that he ascribes his high productivity.

Also, for anyone tempted to create a NIT QuickDex app, I think BrentDC has already a very large portion of the coding in his Quick Clip viewer.

If you're interested, I explain more about QuickDex in Post #1 of this thread; and I put in a link there for downloading the Windows version of QuickDex. (I also put in a link for the Mac Classic QuickDex, but I just checked and it's dead. If anyone is interested, post a request and I'll get one back up into the cloud.)