Whoops! I meant: IdeaMason vs UltraRecall

Posted by Dominik Holenstein
Mar 22, 2007 at 03:31 PM

Daly,

I can’t stop laughing!
I really hope they get both foots back on service.

UR can be used as a writing tool as long as you don’t need academic references.
The possiblity to open several topics in tabs is very useful for the writing/brainstorming process.
Further, as I am working with MS Word, the possiblity to open a topic in word and do the editing and layouting there is also a plus. Yes, I hear you asking ‘But when I am not using Word?’. Well, I don’t have the answer yet but I will try to open an UR item in the Writer of OpenOffice. Update will follow.
I am not sure that Kinook will add any more features to the text pane in UR as they want to keep it as simple as possible.

Dominik

PS: Take care of your foots! (still laughing…)

Daly de Gagne wrote:
>Hugh, what would make UltraRecall a better writing tool for you?
> >I agree with your
>assessment of the difference between IdeaMason and UR.
> >But I think there are times,
>with UR being such a good knowledge manager, that I would prefer to do my writing there,
>as long as I didn’t need the academic references.
> >I recently wrote the UR group that I
>would like to see the option for a ruler in text, as well as multiple windows.
> >What
>else might be helpful?
> >I wonder whether UR is new coming close to that killer ap, the
>all-in-one, that golden grail of CRIMPERs? I thnk ADM had had the chance once until
>they so gloriously shot themselves in the foot. And given the profound round of
>silence from Arne, I suspect ADM is now working on the other foot.
> >Daly
> >Hugh Pile
>wrote:
>>Cassius
>>
>>InfoMason? Would that be the Crimper’s perfect Christmas
>present?
>>;)
>>
>>UltraRecall and IdeaMason are “apples and oranges”, or at least
>lemons and
>>limes. UltraRecall is a knowledge and information management tool, in
>many respects
>>one of the most sophisticated available but also possessing one of
>the steepest
>>learning curves, in my view. IdeaMason is an excellent drafting and
>writing tool,
>>aimed at the academic and general factual markets. Both stand out in
>their niches.
>>
>>I
>>would not want to use IM for knowledge management on any
>significant scale. I have
>>tried to use UR for writing, but it’s really far from ideal
>for this, and there are much
>>better writing tools, including IM.
>>
>>H