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Posted by Jon Polish
Dec 13, 2019 at 01:23 PM

Windows is my OS, so maybe our experiences are different. myBase is intriguing and I have gone through cycles of approach/avoidance over many years. It has been a year since I last tried and dropped it. Here are some prominent impressions that have stuck.

1. Search is good, but not outstanding. Ultra Recall, InfoQube and MyInfo are my standards. It is also slow with large databases as the program appears to re-index during the search (On this I could be wrong. Perhaps it is a setting I have missed.)

2. I have yet to find a way to select notes and export them into one document, say Word, RTF or HTML. myBase will export one at a time. Hardly ideal for reports.

3. A big deal is made of hierarchical tags, but they are not truly hierarchical. You can arrange the tag in a tree, but inheritance is not automatic. I can see some advantage to that, but the same can be accomplished with standard ((non-hierarchical) tags. For me, CintaNotes and InfoQube are gold standards for implementing hierarchical tags.

4. Cannot display within the program (Word, Excel, PDF, etc.). I can live with this but Ultra Recall makes my life easier in this regard. And TheBrain v10.x as well.

There are other oddities, but these are the showstoppers for me.

Jon