Original review published on Steve Litchfield's 3-Lib.

STOP PRESS: Warning. This product has been made obsolete. The company producing it have ceased trading.

FindIt is one of those programs which just does what it claims to do, without frills or gimmicks. It has a target audience and will work well for them. The idea is that for someone with several databases (perhaps "Personal", "Business1", "Business2" etc) FindIt will note which names are in which file and act as a front-end to all of them. It can be downloaded from Tony Crocker's web site. I've been looking at v3.4.

Although you can manually enter entries if you really want to, the quickest way to get up and running is via the "Import" feature. After choosing to let FindIt scan my databases for the "Name" field (you only get to choose one field for FindIt's index), my 80k personal address book and 400k business contact database were indexed to a single FindIt file of 150k. I can live with the disk space hit, but the import process took over 3 minutes. If your master databases change on a daily basis, the import/update procedure would quickly get tiresome.

The search fucntions of FindIt are good, with 'single-shot' and 'multiple' modes, each with touch screen support. Multiples can be saved a separate groups for later attention. The transfer to the original database works well, if a little slowly (the contact's name is 'retyped' for you into the other database, which then has to physically find it).

FindIt's use as a simple contact manager is evidenced by a very handy Note facility. These can be attached to any entry and added to at will, though I would have liked to have seen a visible flag to show whether an entry had a note available.

Although FindIt is more or less fully-working shareware, the preponderance of nag screens (I cleared over 30 of them during the course of this review!) do little to endear the user to the program. However, given the right conditions FindIt could be a very useful addition to the mobile businessman's armoury.

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