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Posted by Cassius
Jun 1, 2008 at 05:39 AM
Bits du Jour ( http://www.bitsdujour.com/ ) is offering today a discount on Offline Explorer Pro.
See http://www.metaproducts.com/mp/Offline_Explorer_Pro.htm for info on this product.
-c
Posted by Daly de Gagne
Jun 1, 2008 at 09:20 PM
Cassius, thanks for posting the info.
ExplorerPro looks very comprehensive, and am somewhat surprised I haven’t seen it before.
The products the company uses in its comparison chart with competitors are also virtualoly unknown to me.
Am I that ouf of touch with this part of the market, or are we accustomed to limiting our discussions to just one segment of the web capture market?
I noticed that ExplorerPro has a “big brother” that costs several hundred dollars, and I couldn’t figure out from the listing comparing the company’s own products what would make it so costly? Does anyone know?
Does anyone here use any of the products, and if so, how are they?
Daly
Cassius wrote:
>Bits du Jour ( http://www.bitsdujour.com/ ) is offering today a discount on Offline
>Explorer Pro.
>
>See http://www.metaproducts.com/mp/Offline_Explorer_Pro.htm
>for info on this product.
>
>-c
Posted by Cassius
Jun 1, 2008 at 11:01 PM
Daly,
I notice that while Offline Explorer Pro mentions that one can add comments, I could find no mention of RTF capability, something I think that most of us require.
I expect that there are pages that OEP can download that our “usual” PIMs cannot, but I’m unwilling to give up RTF for that. In my case, if I come across an occasional page that myBase can’t properly download, I can copy it as an image and then paste it into a MyBase RTF panel. I can also copy and save the text for search purposes. (Supposedly Evernote can even identify words in images, but I’ve never tried it.).
I really think that for most of us, one or more choices among UltraRecall, SQL Notes, MyBase, WebResearch, Surfulator, and Evernote will suffice, with Inspiration as apparently the only known available single-pane outliner, even if it is clunky. (NoteMap being disqualified because I’ve had it lose text.)
Does anyone use Evernote? Does the desktop version really do everything it claims?
Excessive CRIMPing is detrimental to ones sleep and job.
-c
Posted by Pierre Paul Landry
Jun 2, 2008 at 02:20 AM
Cassius wrote:
>I really think that for most of us, one or more choices among UltraRecall, SQL Notes, MyBase, WebResearch, Surfulator, and Evernote will suffice, with Inspiration as apparently the only known available single-pane outliner, even if it is clunky.
Just for the record, SQLNotes is a single-pane outliner with an optional second-pane for large pieces of text, web capture, etc.
See the definition of single-pane (aka intrinsic) outliners here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outliner
Screenshot here: http://www.public.sqlnotes.net/download/SQLNotes/images/singlepane.png
Cheers!
Posted by Wes Perdue
Jun 2, 2008 at 04:50 AM
Cassius wrote:
>
>Does anyone use Evernote? Does the
>desktop version really do everything it claims?
I use it for daily notes; it is terrific for that. The text recognition in images works quite well—as good as advertised, I’d say. Syncing works well, and the web and iPhone interfaces are usable. I’ve not used it for web capture beyond snippets; it handles those well.
The PC version is still a bit rough around the edges, but it’s been reliable for me—no data loss.
>Excessive CRIMPing is
>detrimental to ones sleep and job.
So true. I’m a reformed CRIMPer; I’m down to web apps only, as my system count is too high to keep stuff in one place.
Regards,
Wes