Correlate is back

Posted by Dominik Holenstein
Mar 15, 2014 at 03:13 PM

@Daly,
It is nice to meet the old campers here again :-) ! Are you still missing ADM like me? My main work horse is TheBrain in the meantime.

Regarding Correlate:
Yes, you can achieve the same with MyInfo, any MIndMapping tool or with WhizFolders.
I personally like the look and feel of Correlate. It is not a state of the art tool nor it is very polished. Correlate is not 2014 it is more 1999 or 2001. But the files created with Correlate are very small it the application opens much faster than TheBrain, MindManager or UltraRecall.

@Jon - I don’t think that one can compare UltraRecall with Correlate. UR is more a free-form database with an outline and has many more features. Correlate’s main purpose (my view) is linking and not storing.

@DrAndus - I agree, you can to the same more or less with Freeplane as well. Further, Correlate is not the perfect tool when you want to create huge data pots. Then TheBrain is the much better tool for that.

Correlate will replace MindManager on my notebooks just because MindManager is very expensive. Correlate’s price is not low but you get a very stable and lightweight application for a single price without having to pay a fixed amount every year. Further, the licence is linked to the user and not to the PC/notebook. You can therefore use it on all your devices.

TheBrain remains my data pot. I will use Correlate for Action and Project plans, Meeting notes, general note taking, writing etc. There will be many small files which will be linked into TheBrain. By the way, you can have several Correlate files open on your pc/notebook while working.

Dominik