Bekon Idealist (I32 - Version 3.0 Jan99) [0] Sold as a personal bibliographic database, it is fully portable (on USB Stick) and works as a database, knowlegde

Bekon Idealist (I32 - Version 3.0 Jan99) [0] Sold as a personal bibliographic database, it is fully portable (on USB Stick) and works as a database, knowlegde store, document templating and generation tool. Much loved by users [1] Features: - Rock solid since 1995. - Text based configuration with GUI tools. - Simple model just define fields,records. - Each record can have multiple parents/children. - Automatic data entry forms with validation/spellchecking. - Optional hand coded forms. - Save part filled forms as templates. - Every record full text indexed. - Advanced search capabilities. - Scripting - limited but functional. - Multiple export formats, including "merge using text file" which can reference fields from parent(s) and children. - Help file and manual. The only weakness is the lack of basic language constructs within the scripting commands (I often have to create scripts on the fly to embed variables - then run them). If the scripting commands could be exposed as an API, then this software would benefit greatly from retro-fitting Lua or Luajit. [0] https://lhosborn.com/2019/06/11/idealist-still-going-strong/ https://lhosborn.com/2019/06/11/idealist-still-going-strong/ [1] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/idealistdb https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/idealistdb