UltraRecall v4 update worth it?

Posted by basilides
Aug 24, 2009 at 10:55 PM

To try to return to the original topic—viz., is the UR 4 upgrade worth it?—I would say a resounding yes. Aside from Jan R’s (who apparently is in the PR business, by the way) bruised feelings regarding the rude treatment he allegedly received once in the UR forum (even a monkey sometimes falls out of a tree, as we say here in Korea), the only complaint mentioned in this particular [Outliner Software] forum topic is kinook’s terse and often not very user-friendly responses in the UR forum (the help file could use some tweaking), unlike Zoot, where the software developer seems to be bubbling with friendliness.

Please listen to this interview:

http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/ch9/9/5/2/2/7/1/MicroISVShow-5-032206-KyleAlons.wma

Kyle Alons founded kinook, a small (“two of us”—maybe now three) ISV, in 1999. He is a very young software developer who graduated from Oral Roberts University (BS, computer science), and he moved to Colorado Springs, Colorado, where he now lives. They have two products: Visual Build and Ultra Recall. Perhaps this is the reason their responses in the UR forum are so terse (usually within a day or so, though: I can imagine the enormous work involved in maintaining their two products, especially Visual Build.

But aside from an occasional misstep (namely, the harsh treatment Jan R allegedly received, as he never tires of reminding us), kinook continues to improve UR. I upgraded to 4.0 immediately, and I hope others will, too. It is a very small and good software company that deserves our support in these dire financial times.