learning Ultra Recall

Posted by quant
Oct 24, 2007 at 10:14 PM

bboyd wrote:
>But the learning curve does seem to be daunting when hoping to extract the
>greater good from UR, so this is where I’m asking if I’ve missed something.

learning curve depends on whether you came into contact with databases before. UR can be considered as a classic rational database but with a very well thought of and customized front-end.
Even then it takes some time. It took me about a month, few hours a day, to understand about 90% of UR, but even after half a year I found new features. The good approach is to go through the settings and try to understand/learn what the options mean. Also some of the examples that ship with UR can show you what can be done (GTD), but you won’t learn it without getting your hands dirty.

> I’d love to
>have better explanations for some of its powerful features than I can now find, but the
>current support pages seem to assume too much.

this is a problem with help file, lots of explanation, but no examples ... but they plan to revamp it

> One major drawback to UR is getting your data back out, not that it’s trapped in the program, but
> publishing your data in a meaningful way without having to go thru another program(s) to do the
>layout and styling.

this is also going to be addressed by having HTML export.
Let me just paste the roadmap for the planned features in UR:

# Always-on-top drag/drop target for importing into UR
# HTML export
# Rich text editor enhancements
# Ability to hide completed items
# Highlight search results
# Support updating form date field via Calendar pane
# Multi-user enhancements
# Internal editing of stored web page items
# Show Lineage in Item Parents pane
# Automatic clipboard capture
# Calendar pane
# Revamp the help file
# Tab enhancements
# Title attribute based on other attribute values
# Investigate desktop search integration again
# Custom sorting in tree
# Queue import operations
# Keywords pane
# Filtering in tree
# Open multiple items in side-by-side windows
# Multi-DB search
# Visualization
# Connections pane

Many people here seems to be continuously looking for a better soft to meet their needs. Like the main quote on Kinook’s website says

“I consider the search for the perfect PIM finished.”

and I don’t think I will be looking for UR replacement any soon ;-)