General Knowledge Base vs Ask Sam vs Idea

Posted by Derek Cornish
Jan 22, 2008 at 06:12 PM

Thomas wrote:
>From those that I at least tried, or used, I’d go with Ultrarecall, if my needs included
>the search capability.
>With exception of PDF, in the past I have found that UR had
>problems with indexing PDF, it would only index a part of many PDF files I had, and I’m
>not sure they fixed this (most probably not).
> >If I was more afer categorization, and
>had a powerful search program like Archivarius, I’d seriusly consider MyInfo, and
>I’d only store links to those documents in MI, and use MI for writing and
>categorization, and Archivarius for searching. I tend to like the tags
>functionality in MI much more than tags in UR, and generally Mi is better in visual
>terms than UR (eg. it allows you to use text formatting on article titles, a biggie for
>me.) MI probably has a slightly better editor.
> >UR has better web clipping than MI,
>but you can’t edit those webclips in UR directly.
>

Does anybody know if UltraRecall still has problems with indexing pdf files?

If Daly isn’t concerned about text formatting, and only intends to link his files to, rather than store them in, his program of choice, then I’d have thought that Zoot32 would be a good candidate after all (despite my previous comments) - and much more powerful than either UltraRecall or MyInfo for categorizing or note-taking.

It just goes to show how much choice of software depends on style of working. Once the notion of needing to store files within a particular piece of software is taken out of the equation, the options open up again.

Derek