Question about ConnectedText, Ultra Recall and others

Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Sep 20, 2012 at 10:00 PM

To answer your question, it would help to know what your primary purpose is. If you’re storing clippings and documents from other sources, my feeling is that you’re better off with Zoot or UltraRecall. That’s not to say you can’t use CT for this purpose, it’s just that I don’t think it is better than they are and if you’re already familiar with them then why jump through hoops (unless you’re struck by the CRIMP bug, of course)?

However, I think CT beats UltraRecall and even Zoot for synthesizing and analyzing. So, for example, if you’re trying to write a complex document with lots of pieces, I think CT is a better choice (although Whizfolders is also probably a good option). CT is good at keeping related information together.

CT makes a nice notebook—and, as I mentioned recently in another post, you don’t really need to know a lot of esoteric commands and codes and such for it to function nicely in this capacity. Just remember to use double brackets [[like this]] to create a wiki link to an existing or (once you click on it) a new topic. And bracket headings with equal signs to create a hierarchy in your current topic. CT does most of the rest for you.

Steve