UltraRecall

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Outliners.com Message ID: 4631

Posted by daly_de_gagne
2005-11-30 19:29:04

I think the bloom may be coming off the rose for UltraRecall.

First, UR indicated some months ago that there would be full integration with Firefox in the Q4 version.

Last week I discovered in a posted roadmap that integration had been quietly dropped from the roadmap. The deletion had been made in the roadmap notice that was already posted, but the original posting date remained. There was no reason to check the roadmap, but for some reason I did. Kinood agrees with me that it would have been better to change the date, and we both agree there was no intent to be deceptive.

However, what disenchants me is that it seems, lacking any official explanation from Kinook as to why integration was dropped, that the appearance of a third-party Firefox extensions called Launchy may have convinced Kinook they didn’t have to go to the trouble of creating their own integration wiith Firefox.

Yesterday, I attempted to get Launchy to work, spending about half an hour of time I didn’t have. From the Firefox end, Launchy appears to work. But nothing happens at the UltraRecall end.

I expressed my frustration and anger on the UR forum. I also posted my Launchy code. My hope is that someone from Kinook will respond and let me know what the problem might be.

Meanwhile, I am at a loss to understand why a company that introduced a product (UR) in such a competant and professional manner, would fail to recognize the importance of Firefox integration, wild and perhaps unfounded hopes about the new IE notwithstanding.

Ironically, Firefox 1.5 was released this week. Early reviews, and my own experience with it, suggest Firefox keeps on getting better.

I guess I’ll just have to keep on drag and dropping urls into UR. And hope that Kinook reconsiders its decision to abandon integration.

The other alternative is to rely solely on Scrapbook, the Firefox extension that saves web pages, and also provides a rudimentary note-taking capability, and do everything else in ADM and InfoHhandler, both of which permit a more personalized approach to categorizing information and retrieving it.

Daly

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