UltraRecall v4 update worth it?

Posted by $Bill
Aug 23, 2009 at 03:13 PM

I’ll a addendum to quant’s recap of the momentary drama of UltraRecall. Thankfully, Jan’s assertion that the announcement was pulled and replaced to swindle us out of our money (a la ADA) - that the developers were likely unethical and had no intention of continuing development nor bug fixing - was a false premise. The UR developers, clearly not being PR experts nor marketeers, have responded in a more traditional and worthy manner. The developers have demonstrated their commitment with quick bug fixes and have now added the new features that they promised on the roadmap that they announced. They are very responsive in the UR forum. They have an updated “road map” of features that are mostly refinements to their feature rich software.

The UltraRecall forums are still not a place to do “social networking” with the developers. Questions are answered effectively and promptly. Lengthy dialogs are not the norm. (Quant is a most valuable resource in that forum :-) ) The technical documentation of each feature and menu choice UR is thorough. While UR can be used to do simple things easily - UR has a lot of depth.

I can confidently recommend UR to someone looking for mature, stable software with an extensive and gradually growing- feature set that is useful TODAY. If you enjoy being a part of a community that troubleshoots, finds bugs, refines rough features or living on the bleeding edge - I would look elsewhere.