Reducing my PIM/Knowledge/Writing Tools

Posted by Ike Washington
Apr 2, 2007 at 11:18 PM

Kyle

Thanks for responding here. My apologies. I should have contacted you first before shooting off here.

Yesterday something did go wrong. I reinstalled UR today and it’s been fine so far. It may have been that I had too many applications running. I tend to do this.

Playing around with UR, I can see why it’s popular with many of the forum regulars. I started off with KeyNote and then Treepad and then Ecco and then back and forth. So UR’s set up is familiar. It’s a great outliner. I like its hoist and cloning facilities. I wish its keywords worked more like EverNote’s categories. And I’d like to be able to see the contents of more than one tab at a time. I should take this up with you at the UR forum.

Thanks too for your offer of an extension to the eval period.

My point was that it might be an idea for developers to allow repeat evaluations as a matter of course. After all, it’s not just the software that’s evolving. I often try software out for one purpose, reject it because it doesn’t quite work for that purpose, then find myself coming back because I want to use it, as my digital lifestyle becomes ever more complex, for some other purpose altogether. Developers generally grant me an extension. But if I knew this from the start, that, say, three months after the end of the evaluation I’ll be able to have another go, I’d be much more likely to keep your forum bookmarked, keep an interest going in your software even though your software’s gone from my computer.

Best

Ike