Web Research -->> WOW!

Posted by JJ
Jul 5, 2007 at 05:59 PM

Derek Cornish wrote:
>JJ,
> >I’d guess a lot of the UR users would claim that its information management
>abilities extend far beyond those of WR, and approach those of Zoot (this from a
>Zoot-biased viewpoint, needless to say). This would explain their strong
>resistance to the idea that WR could be a replacement for UR. But of course it all
>depends on what one is using UR for. Being a WR user myself, I can see how its developing
>feature-set might make it an attractive alternative to UR or Zoot as a single-product
>HQ for some users (though clearly not for others!). When using two decent programs
>with overlapping features one is constantly alert for the tipping-point at which
>one’s usage might be switched to one or other of them, rather than both.
> >Not being a
>heavy UR user I would not want to get into any WR-UR tipping-point discussion,
>particularly as it depends so much on an individual’s usage. But to take a somewhat
>analogous example, WR certainly does not have the feature-set to replace my use of
>Zoot at the moment, although I have often wished it did. It is, however, a very useful
>companion program to Zoot, in the latter’s current pre-32 bit state. This is why I
>stressed the ability of WR to provide hyperlinks to its content that can be pasted into
>external programs - something the Admiral kindly ensured that Zoot could handle.
>Currently in WR the hyperlink is only to the saved file, not to its contents
>(paragraphs, sentences, words, etc). But this is still extremely useful if one wants
>to use WR as a well-organised repository for webpages, images, and so on, when used in
>conjunction with Zoot or other similar programs. (Incidentally, I am at something of
>a loss to understand why this feature is so rarely commented on when discussing WR,
>especially as it has been praised here in relation to Whizfolders: see
>http://www.outlinersoftware.com/messages/viewm/1833.)
> >But the point I was
>really trying to make - not very well - in previous posts, was that it would be a pity if
>the good points of WR as content-capturing software, in comparison with other
>software in that class, were to get overlooked in the scramble to identify its
>shortcomings with respect to UR or other more powerful information organisation and
>management software. Like you, I invite people who have not d/l WR - especially those
>who have commented on it :-) - to take a look.
> >Derek

Derek,

I couldn’t have said it better :-)

Have you tried using WR with the network add-in???

PS… I too am looking forward to Zoot32!

-jj