Question: What software is absolutely essential to you

Posted by Chris Murtland
Aug 2, 2011 at 07:30 PM

Ultra Recall has definitely been my most-used PIM-type app over the past six years. Of course, I flirt with a lot of the other usual suspects, too - Ecco with eccoext, BrainStorm, Zoot, etc.

I have been using Evernote for several months. I tried using it as my “everything” application, but found I couldn’t do without the fine-grained control I am used to in UR. Now, I use EN for mobile capture and some mobile reference (I place things I might need while out and about into EN). With the HTML export of the latest Windows desktop version, I could actually sync that entire EN export folder to UR and have all of my EN stuff available in UR - although I haven’t done it yet.

One app that really has saved a CRIMPer like me from certain demise is Directory Opus - its low-level file search is actually quite good at finding text in all the variations of PIM software I’ve used over the years, including Info Select, Ecco, Zoot, UR, BrainStorm, etc. It’s very slow, but I have literally thousands of old PIM files and searching them with DO lets me at least narrow down to a set of files to check for what I am looking for. I’m sure there is other low-level file search programs that would work, but I also like DO as a general file manager.

Chris