Web Research -->> WOW!

Posted by JJ
Jul 3, 2007 at 02:56 PM

Web Research vs. UltraRecall Review

First, a little background…
I have tried most of the products discussed on this forum… and have focused on 2 main software products.

OmeaPro… showed great promise but was dropped by the developer

UltraRecall… Not bad, but could be better

But now I’m really liking Web Research from Macropool for the following reasons:

#1. I’m using the “network” add-in on my stand alone machine. By doing this, it adds a key piece of functionality missing in the “stand-alone” version… indexing of word, excel, powerpoint and PDF documents. With this add-in, all docs added to WR are indexed. I wonder why the developer doesn’t add this feature to stand-alone product???
NOTE… web pages are automatically indexed as you add them to WR.

#2. WR seems to capture web pages better and faster than UR. Plus, unlike UR, you can select where to store the web page, add comments & categories, before you save the web page… a very nice feature.

#3. You can add notes to any item stored in WR.

#4. You can add notes as individual items into WR.

#5. You can add categories to any item in WR. Unlike UR, you can assign multiple categories to an item.

#6. The only “big thing” UR has that WR doesn’t have is the ability to create custom meta forms. This is not a deal breaker for me, but would be nice.

#7. WR seems quicker and more stable than the current version of UR.

#8. The latest version of WR adds a nice feature which allows you to add items directly from your scanner. (fyi… WR adds scanned documents as a jpg… not pdf)

#9. WR has an add-on which allows you to send outlook items to WR.

Overall, I’m very pleased with WR! I would say that UR is a little more powerful (in terms of customization) but WR is cleaner, faster and easier to use.

I would highly recommend others to download the free version…WITH the network add-on to add the ability to index documents.

NOTE-I do not work for Macropool :-)

-jj