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Read/Annotate/Bookmark
11/8/2007
Just an update ...
I found excellent (IMHO) pdf annotating/conversion tool, Bluebeam PDF revu, standard price is $149, but for students, they offer it for $30 (no proof needed)
http://www.cadopolis....
Read/Annotate/Bookmark
10/30/2007
>But, quant, you want
>to stick with the original document formats?
preferably, yes. It's ok to convert ps to pdf. But scanned documents are much smaller and faster in djvu than pdf, and I found A...
Read/Annotate/Bookmark
10/29/2007
I read quite a lot of documents in various formats (ps,pdf,djvu,..) but have a problem to deal with them in consistent way. I'd like to be able to annotate and bookmark. For djvu, there is WinDjview, ...
Links
10/26/2007
In general, you have a graph as the underlying structure in your outliner.
From graph theory, there are directional and undirected graphs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_graph_theory#Directi...
learning Ultra Recall
10/24/2007
PPL wrote:
>They seem to have simply copied the
>current features of SQLNotes! www.sqlnotes.net (free while in beta)
OK, I got it know, you're the developer of that soft ... not very kind of you, ...
learning Ultra Recall
10/24/2007
PPL wrote:
>>Let me just paste the roadmap for the planned features in UR:
># HTML export
># Rich
>text editor enhancements
># Ability to hide completed items
># Support updating form
>date field vi...
learning Ultra Recall
10/24/2007
bboyd wrote:
>But the learning curve does seem to be daunting when hoping to extract the
>greater good from UR, so this is where I'm asking if I've missed something.
learning curve depends on whethe...
whizfolders
10/24/2007
Guido wrote:
>Hello all,
>
>having read nearly all posted topics in this forum, I really wonder that
>whizfolders ( www.whizfolders.com) doesn't appear to capture more
>attention.
I have the same...
Supermemo
10/23/2007
I used it for about half a year, the concept is old ... but it works, I was able to remember a lot!
But after some time ... I realized that few "items" are mixed (questions with answers), and some ar...
ConnectedText versus Ndxcards
10/18/2007
do you mean by shuffling randomizing? That is not the most effective way to gain a long-term knowledge, ... this is a good reading if you are aiming to study a lot of info effectively http://www.super...
IBM Lotus Symphony BETA - Free
10/17/2007
Graham Rhind wrote:
>Thank you Ken.
>
>Quant: I am a database specialist and did weigh up whether to store the
>data in a traditional database form or in this text form. I asked my customers what ...
IBM Lotus Symphony BETA - Free
10/17/2007
Chris Thompson wrote:
>This is actually an interesting discussion. That Word barely can sort of handle the
>task by only loading portions of the document at a time is beside the point, really. The ...
IBM Lotus Symphony BETA - Free
10/17/2007
>to find the required data, as each chapter has the same structure. Indices and tables
>of contents would cause problems anyway because it is currently published as a pdf
>instead of hard copy, and...
IBM Lotus Symphony BETA - Free
10/17/2007
Graham Rhind wrote:
>At the risk of flogging this one to death, and just for the sake of completeness, my book
>does not contain multiple tables of contents, footnotes, multiple appendices,
>cross-r...
Is it worth it?
9/6/2007
Cassius wrote:
>As far as I can tell, mind maps just present a graphical representation of an outline.
I completely agree with Cassius. The mind maps are nothing else than a tree that you see in al...
Zoot Grows on You
8/21/2007
Daly de Gagne wrote:
> Haven't missed RTF
>yet.
>
>I find Zoot more user friendly than UR. It's rock solid.
it might be true, that if you need only plain text, Zoot might be the best (I never tried ...
integrating Web Research & UltraRecall
7/13/2007
Jan Rifkinson wrote:
>Has anyone figured out how to integrate these two programs, i.e. use WR for it's
>strength in web capture but to link to UR so as to find the data externally to UR.
I wonder wh...
much better review :)
Thanks for sharing your experiences ...
Web Research -->> WOW!
7/5/2007
>Since many use
>UR, I didn't feel it necessary to detail all that UR can do.
just one more comment :)
When I was hunting for my perfect PIM, the statement similar to yours "UltraRecall… Not bad, bu...
Web Research -->> WOW!
7/5/2007
JJ wrote:
>I would like to point out that I stand by
>my "facts" ... I am not aware of any inaccuracies I stated in my review.
while all facts you presented are possibly correct, saying A without s...
Web Research -->> WOW!
7/5/2007
Jan Rifkinson wrote:
>However, I reject
>the notion that making a comment on another's representation of facts is flaming.
>IMO, it's simply commenting on a matter of accuracy vs inaccuracy. It's no...
Web Research -->> WOW!
7/5/2007
>don't recall asking a question. But does this mean that UR scans incoming web pages for
>occurrences of keywords?
yes, if you set the html files to be indexed
>There is a difference in the speed...
Web Research -->> WOW!
7/5/2007
Graham Rhind wrote:
>... Inserting into an indexed (ordered) file will affect speed
>because the positioning of the record in the interface needs refreshing.
UR keeps all the keywords indexed, ...
Web Research -->> WOW!
7/5/2007
>This doesn't make sense to me. I don't know how UR works internally,
>but adding a record containing (for example) a web page shouldn't require any other
>records, whether they contain metadata or...
Web Research -->> WOW!
7/5/2007
>#5. In UR, you
>can only have 1 category for an item. In WR you can open a categories window (which lists
>your categories in a tree structure... each with an open check box). When you select an
>...