A slip-box is really just this: a loose collection of slips stuffed into a box. Each time you have an idea that seems worth remembering you scribble down a note on an (electronic) slip and put it into the box. Then you can forget about it. When the time comes that you need your ideas, the functionality of the program helps you to quickly find relevant slips and, what is more, relations and links between different slips by associative searches.

My implementation of this conception (SlipBox) provides a plug-in architecture to establish interfaces to other programs, eg to BibDesk, Bookends (programs to manage references) and Graphviz (a graph visualisation tool).

(No, there is no version for Windows. But there is a similar program, Zettelkasten – German for slip-box. However, it is only available in German.)

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5 (Version 0.8 runs on 10.4, version 0.6 runs on 10.3.9; see the archive page.)

Contact: For criticism, praise, bug reports or feature requests please use the forum. You can also send an email to slipbox [at] [name of this domain].