myBase Desktop v6 released

Posted by Carrot
Nov 16, 2011 at 05:52 AM

Hi, are there many uses of myBase out there? It seems to have been a ‘hot’ outliner a few years ago, now eclipsed by many other faster-developing products.

I recently purchased myBase 6, but now feel that perhaps UltraRecall would have been a better choice.

I’ve found the myBase interface to be quite awkward, even ‘duncy’. Perhaps it is I who is the dunce, and not the software.

For example, I cannot figure out if there is a way to move around multiple nodes, or subtrees. Unlike other note-apps like TreeDB, I cannot use CTRLfor a selection of items, or SHIFT and CTRL for a range of items) or use cut/copy and paste in the conventional fashion.

WJJsoftss advice was to press ESC to bring up ‘Query Results’ and then drag and drop (or copy -paste) into here. But this is a very awkward, unintuitive way of doing things. There is no easy way to select multiple nodes and drag them into Query Results.

The user should be able to select multiple nodes, or trees or subtrees, (by holding down CTRL for a selection of items, or SHIFT and CTRL for a range of items) and perform functions directly (copy, paste, delete) in the conventional way used by other applications. No?

Am I missing something,or is this simple feature really missing in MyBase?
Does anyone like the menu structure? Its quite unconventional and does not follow a standard menu-order and seems poorly thought out.
I really do want to like this application, but am struggling :)

Carrot