PIM , Document / Knowledge Management Software Recommendations

Posted by basilides
Dec 1, 2008 at 01:56 PM

Perhaps you have become somewhat exasperated by people asking for advice regarding PIM / D-KM software recommendations, but could I indulge the experts’ patience on this forum just one more time for some specific advice?

I am currently using UltraRecall 3.5b, and as you know product development has been suspended, undoubtedly due to the world’s crumbling economy. It’s a great program, but there are still some features that are missing and tweaks that would come in handy.

Over the weekend I have downloaded and tested a whole slew of possible replacements (from AM-Notebook to SQLNotes to Zoot), and my head is spinning. Yes, SQLNotes seems to be a great program, as many people have remarked on this forum, but the interface, albeit still in beta, is unwieldy, for people like me, that is (and that means 99.99% of humanity). I need something like UltraRecall—yes, I know, it still does the job reasonably well—but something that features (like UltraRecall)

1) virtually effortless (drag and drop) and “as is” import of web content (and various other file formats), but features (unlike UltraRecall)

2) global searches across databases (unless the software is so robust I can store everything into one huge database, and not have everything esp. searches slow down to a crawl, as in OneNote and a bunch of others—and what if I end up five years from now with 800 gigabytes of various accumulated data to store and retrieve?), and

3) highlighted (and numbered) search hits (and not done the useless way AskSam, for example, does searches).

Any recommendations?