Re: Surfulater V1.94, B0.0 Released

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Posted by subs
2006-01-09 15:27:10

Hi Wojciech,
Thanks for taking the time to reply. Sorry to hear of your disappointment.

The Free Trial lets you have one knowledge base open and its location defaults to the standard Microsoft My Documents folder. In the full version you can have as many knowledge bases open as you like and they can be located wherever you like. Our FAQ Web page does mention this. I can’t see how not being able to create multiple knowledge bases dramatically affects the evaluation of Surfulater.

When the free trial starts for the second and subsequent time it displays a screen telling you how many days you have left in the trial and gives you the option to purchase it. I think you will find this in free trial versions of all commercial software.

When you create an article from the Clipboard Surfulater uses the first sentence as the article title, which of course you can then edit. If you are seeing more than one sentence then this is a bug.

Knowledge tagging (keywords) will be coming in Surfulater soon. I’ve written about this on my forums and blog. Surfulater allows you to have the same article in as many folders as you want, which makes it easier to categorize content.

Surfulater has various tree views including Chronological, flat (All Articles), Folders only, All Folders with no articles etc.

More Knowledge Tree views are coming, along with tree filtering. For example only show articles added after a certain date, or matching a certain boolean search, or matching certain tags etc. These new capabilities will make it even easier to work with large amounts of information and more quickly locate content of interest.

I am very interested in having a dialog with our users and see this
as critical in Surfulater’s evolution. It is why I spend quite a bit
of time on various forums and have our own blog and forums.

Thanks again for taking the time to write. I hope my reply brings us
a little bit closer together. And please do keep an eye on what we are doing.

PS. You might find “Surfulater, Under the Hood and Down the Road”
http://blog.surfulater.com/2005/11/21/surfulater-under-the-hood-and-
down-the-road/ of interest.

Neville

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