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Posted by Cassius
Oct 28, 2009 at 11:27 PM
Alex,
Isn’t UR quite slow in importing some file types? I don’t have the latest version, but it seemed to me to be much slower in importing Web pages than, say, MyBase. Of course it does have other capabilities that may well outweigh the slowness.
-c
Posted by $Bill
Oct 29, 2009 at 02:41 AM
Dr Andus wrote:
>This is almost
>everything I needed, except the sorting of categories. At the moment the keywords
>feature seems to be the only way to sort the items according to the categories that I
>give. It would be nice if the categories where actually displayed on the screen and I
>could just click on them to sort them in alphabetic order, for instance.
I also think you made a good choice. UltraRecall is mature, stable, flexible and designed to do what you describe. (Zoot would be my 2nd choice but I haven’t used the latest version.) A quick suggestion would be to investigate the “saved searches” feature. The “saved search” for a given category (as a user keyword or attribute) will display the result in a child pane in which you “just can click on them to sort”. Alexander’s suggestion of creating a folder-as-category with links to the files would also work if I understand your problem properly.
You can get the help you need in the UR forum….see you there.
Over several year of daily use, I have never encountered an unreasonable speed problem with importing web pages.
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Oct 29, 2009 at 06:19 PM
Cassius wrote:
>Isn’t UR quite slow in importing some file types? I don’t have the latest
>version, but it seemed to me to be much slower in importing Web pages than, say, MyBase.
>Of course it does have other capabilities that may well outweigh the slowness.
Indeed, UltraRecall is no match for a specialised program like Surfulater when importing web pages; Surfulater gets its content directly from Internet Explorer, whereas UR re-downloads the page, so the speed difference is noticeable. I haven’t worked with Mybase since a couple of versions back, so I have no idea how that fares comparatively.
However, UR is much more flexible for a much broader range of uses and I think that it’s ideal for what Dr Andus was looking for: a program to automatically hoover files from a multitude of directories, allowing their organisation and anotation. I used it as a complementary tool to import and index my PDF journal articles and I found it lightning fast.
Posted by Dr Andus
Oct 29, 2009 at 09:24 PM
Many thanks once more for all the suggestions. I spent a bit more time exploring Ultra Recall and it fits my needs very well. Very nice piece of software. I did notice that it is slower with importing websites, however I use Surfulater for that anyway, so it’s not a concern at all.
doctorandus
Posted by $Bill
Oct 30, 2009 at 10:29 AM
>>Surfulater gets its content directly from
>Internet Explorer, whereas UR re-downloads the page, so the speed difference is
>noticeable. I haven’t worked with Mybase since a couple of versions back, so I have no
>idea how that fares comparatively.
UR has improved in this regard…
UR has an import option if checked, when importing documents from the web, Ultra Recall will always use the most recent version of any files found in Internet Explorer’s temporary file cache. You can check this option if IE is your default browser to speed up imports. If unchecked, Ultra Recall will query the server for each file’s timestamp (and retrieve the file if the server reports it has a newer copy) in order to ensure that the most recent version of the file is processed.