InfoQube versus UltraRecall versus Zoot 6

Posted by Derek Cornish
Feb 11, 2010 at 09:13 PM

Ian Goldsmid wrote:
>also wanted to add that Zoot copies/saves/archives web pages - in almost all cases -
>100% perfectly - totally way better than say Surfulator.

Even Zoot 5’s “Archive Web Page” feature enabled me to stop using another Surfulater-type program - WebResearch (aka ContentSaver). Also, Zoot 5’s dedicated import handler for pdf files (amongst other types) enabled it to import their text and create links from the Zoot item(s) to the original pdf file that I store elsewhere in the Windows filing system - another reason for dropping WebResearch.

On the Zoot outliner:
By the way, you seem to have cracked the Zoot beta outliner issue, so what exactly is it for? It doesn’t seem to be a single-pane outliner in the conventional sense, although it seems to build a hierarchical list of folders and items (or, at least, folder-names and item-names) within the outline item’s editor. Thus, I can open a new outline-type item in the outline folder, and I can give it a name in the item grid, and put a “folder” name into the item editor display, and add “items” - or at least item-names - to it as siblings or children. But what for? I don’t seem to be able to enter any of these nodes - or whatever they are. In fact the whole thing seems to be a massively useless exercise…which leads me to think that two things must be getting in the way of my comprehension of its purpose:
1. I am persistently blinded to its charms by my insane desire to see it as a single-pane outliner (I can’t shake this);
2. and/or there is some simple step, or maybe just a vital clue, that would turn this painfully frustrating exercise into a magical experience…of some sort.

Derek