Can we talk about Info Select?

Posted by Wolfgang
Aug 30, 2012 at 12:11 AM

I am sorry, I thought I mentioned it. I have before on this forum. It is, of course Ultra Recall. I had downloaded it many times over the years even before I went Apple and it somehow seemed too complicated and never clicked. The in desperation with Infoselect having committed hari curry (or whatever) I googled and looked and ruminated and downloaded and paid for it. I had several goes at it and it still didn’t click but I was desperate and the ability to index files actually worked. I tried that wiki thingy that is so highly reviewed here but I couldn’t find a way to index external files and it never clicked either. The I had to write an NIH grant application and I used Ultra Recall in only the simplest mode. And then, biff, if clicked and now I use it all the time. I also play with and use OneNote but somehow it doesn’t do it for me totally (poor integration with ms word no indexing .... but it is very pretty). Sometimes Ultra R is slow to copy web pages to itself but anyway I mainly use it for text. I use attributes to keep endnote reference as well for text snippets. If I copy from pdf to make a text snippit the text can be edited in word (if UR is set up to do it - info in discussions on forums) and I use an ms word addin found on http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/index.html at
http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/word_tips.html this person is amazing and with lots of word addins and templates. Then after editing in word it saves back to UR and the text is pretty and the hard returns from the pdf are gone. Overall despite occasional slowness, I rate UR 10/10 and it can handle ginormous databases. I bought the latest version with runs on win 8 but I think I will wait a bit before going to 8.
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