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IdeaList was a commercially marketed free form text database application originally published by Blackwell Software, a divison of Blackwell Science Ltd. The incomplete software source for version 4.0 was sold in the late 1990's to Bekon Marketing Ltd. who continued to develop the product up to version 5.5 before trading ceased.

IdeaList originated as a DOS program, later 16 bit and 32 bit versions were developed for Windows and Mac computers. The software allowed complete textual documents to be entered into a database and had built in text retrieval (search) functions to allow rapid retrieval of documents. It featured script programming to allow it to carry out tasks such as printing to labels, envelopes or letters and was also capable of publishing standalone search-only databases.

Publishers
Blackwell Science was formed in 1939, as an offshoot of Blackwell's Publishing

Bekon Marketing Ltd was incorporated 26 Sep 1997, the last set of accounts were filed on 24 May 2006 (made up to 31 March 2005)