Web Research -->> WOW!

Posted by Graham Rhind
Jul 5, 2007 at 10:20 AM

quant wrote:
>I see, so don’t you think it’s not a best idea to compare to
>UR? I personally think UR is much more than just a web capture soft. I started reading
>your review excited that I might see some other program that is comparable in feature
>set with UR, but nothing like that followed. What about comparing WR with Surfulater
>or another similar soft?

Fair point. It set me thinking, and in the 27 years that I’ve been using computers, I don’t think I’ve ever come across any application, apart from the simplest “one trick” ones, that has the same feature set as any other product. I set out looking for software that fulfilled all of my data management needs, but came to realize that there are programs which have features that work better than similar features in other programs. So I think it is quite reasonable to compare subsets of features in a complex application as UR to similar features in other programs (though I’m not clear that this is what jj was doing). I only use UR now as a database, and if I were to review just its database abilities (forms, “metadata” etc.), I would be full of praise for it. It is other features of it which I find don’t work for me, which mean I still use 7 or 8 applications for personal information management rather than the Utopian single one.

As to whether Web Research is more than just a web clipper - I haven’t used the program, but if it has a scanning plug-in, it would seem to push it more to the document management pigeon hole to me, which UR also professes to do (amongst other features, of course, which Web Research doesn’t have). And, I suppose if it manages a person’s personal information, to that person it’s a PIM.

But Derek, I have to ask: why does being in Kansas limit the visibility of European products to you? :-)

Graham