Cardbox is a database program. It lets you design your own databases, and you can make them hold anything – people’s contact details, books, abstracts, photographs, biographies, CVs of job applicants, personal records, lists of stolen antiques, museum catalogues, contracts and official documentation, confidential accident reports, poisoning incidents. Databases don’t just store textual information: they can also contain images (photographs, drawings, scanned documents), non-image files of any kind, such as spreadsheets or word-processed documents.