Rdex
(ver 1.5.6)
Freeware


Microsoft no longer adds a "cardfile" applet of the 
sort available in Windows 3.x.  Surprisingly, there 
are almost no examples of freeware replacements, and 
most that exist are in many ways less capable.  

Rdex is a freeform indexcard database, which will store 
any pure text (essentially, it is a collection of "notepad"
pages).  Just click "New Card," copy and paste (or type 
in) some info and click save.  Afterwards, you can search 
for any text contained in the card, and cards with that 
text (highlighted) will be consecutively displayed.  You 
can also list the first lines of all the cards in the 
database (very useful if you use the first line as an index 
of the individual cards contents).  Unfortunately, the 
cards are listed in their creation order, and cannot be 
sorted alphabetically.  

Rdex consists of one executable file, which you can 
place anywhere on your computer.  The database is a single 
file with an ".rdx" extension.  You can create multiple 
databases, but you can only open one at a time.  Databases 
can be saved anywhere.  


WARNING: The newest versions of Rdex allow the option of 
saving a database as an encrypted AES-128 format file.  
This is -NOT- possible in Win2k (but other formats work fine).