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Posted by Simon Bolivar
Dec 28, 2012 at 12:13 AM

I checked out asksam (the site was live for me) thanks Jon. I see that the standard software is pushing $150 whereas the pro is near $400 and it is this latter that mentions the indexing of all words in the database. I read somewhere that asksam was used by the team unravelling the watergate burglary documents which is impressive, but I’m afraid that it is too rich for my blood. many thanks for mentioning it and Ultra Recall, which I am trialling for 45 days (30 days isn’t always enough and 21 days breezes by). I purchased rightnote at the end of november on bits du jour and apart from the spreadshetts in the notes I really like that the developer Rael Bauer is developing actively and is responsive to his users. I have yet to use his product enough to want to send him requests for features. Similarly I am also very very keen on whizfolders as mentioned, I hear too that the developer, Sanjay is also responsive. ConnectedText as Dr Andus suggested, and which I know he uses extensively, and finally InfoQube. The developers of these last two, Eduardo and Pierre-Paul have been active on this site, and their products seem to take a radically different approach in their different ways to note taking and database organisation and retrieval and at such a deep level that my mind boggles.

I have followed a slow path in collecting data on my computer; first using notepad for continuous lists of alphabetized contacts, reminders on my desktop, various tidbits of info and mafia wars by Zynga in a toilet roll style, and then wanting chapters: I found scratch, which I used for about a month until the notes became unmanageable, and further requiring collapsible ‘chapters’ or properly called, an outline, and then I found mempad. This Horst Schaeffer offering served me for a good while and I created over many hundreds of nodes and then 2 years ago I migrated all of my notes to Essential PIM because it was on offer on giveawayoftheday.com. EPIM houses thousands of pages of my notes, and while i like it’s multiple trees and icons which I use to the utmost, I have long since realised that I need to trade up to a much more powerful software for my note taking, storing and retrieval needs. EPIM has a good calendar and contacts feature and is aimed as an alternative for outlook users, but if I knew 2 years ago what I know now then I would have unhesitatingly gone with AM Notebook. Anyway now I am thinking carefully and reading a lot about software features and user feedback and have made a list of features that interest me, (the feature that is the title of this thread has been described in the donationcoder.com thread linked by Dr Andus elsewhere on these boards, (I link here below the two posts relevant to this thread from this earlier linked thread
Something eerily similar to my question at the beginning of this thread was asked by 2 separate posters >>
http://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=2362.650
Re: General brainstorming for Note-taking software
« Reply #673 on: April 19, 2008, 08:49:01 AM »

http://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=2362.750
Re: General brainstorming for Note-taking software
« Reply #767 on: October 25, 2009, 11:10:10 PM »

I guess that as I have so many desired features, don’t we all? It would be the best thing for me to concentrate on currently powerful softwares with VERY ACTIVE and RESPONSIVE developers and then pitch my idea at them to see if they might add it in a future build!