Outliner/PIM roll call: Fall 2012

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Sep 26, 2012 at 05:19 PM

WSP wrote:
>Like others on this forum, I continue to fantasize about the perfect program.
>To my mind, it would mostly resemble MyInfo, but it would add just a few features from
>Evernote: OCR of images, indexing of attached PDF files, and synchronization with
>the iPad.

UltraRecall provides one of your sought after features, namely indexing of attached files. As an overall solution I have found it at least as capable as MyInfo, though its interface is definitely not as clean. I don’t expect that they’ll be offering OCR anytime soon (on the other hand, I understand that Onenote provides this). As for syncing with the iPad, it depends on the data: you should be able to sync contacts via Outlook and Google Sync. Or, from MyInfo, you can also export a topic as a website and access it in iPad—but not edit it.

In short, it seems to me that many of the features we seek are out there, scattered among various similar looking applications. What I have found rather disconcerting is that in some cases where all the features are made available in a single piece of software, this is can end up like some kind of Frankenstein contraption.