Perfect organizer found! Need personal planner/diary?

Posted by $Bill
Aug 11, 2011 at 10:14 PM

Pavi wrote:
> >So my question is: Should I consider a dedicated software to do this, and are
>there any recommendations? I am pretty happy with the UltraRecall + Outlook 2010
>combination, which really does work for 95% of things. But for this other 5%, keeping
>good personal archives could be valuable down the road.

No, you can get most of that last 5% out of UltraRecall, it really is that versatile.

Everything that I keep track of is in UR, except if it requires calculations like finances.

For example, I was just entering a new ‘toy’ in my home inventory within UR. I have created attributes for the manufacturer, model, date purchased, cost, room, etc. I have a “inventory_item” template, and a custom form. I link to email or scanned receipts and manuals. The item details or item notes hold misc information like where I hid the spare parts for the lawnmower or when I last changed the oil.

For an “overview” - all the inventory items are child items of a folder so I can select the folder (or a saved search item) and see the overview in a table in the Related Items pane, where I can select the columns I want to see and sort. For the “table-like form” as you noted, UR does not (yet) have editing of cells in the horizontal Related Items pane…and so I select an item and edit the attributes in the vertical-Item Attribute pane or I create a custom form.

Hope this gives you some ideas and encouragement. I realize that my narrative is short on technical details and heavy on terminology specific to UR- adjourning to the UR forum would be a better place to pursue the UR way to do it….

I advocate selecting one general purpose database and learning to use it very well…but, if you want a pre-customized database silo—as they say, there’s an app for that….