UltraRecall v4 update worth it?

Posted by Ian Goldsmid
Aug 20, 2009 at 11:36 PM

I went away from UR up to a few months ago - I have been a user since Version 1. I’ve tried every other product of its kind imaginable - and nothing beats UR for data integrity/safety, the ability to store and display anything internall, the ability to mark up items according to a rich tagging/attribute scheme ... and on and on. Yes, the developers are a bit frosty - in other words they are tech heads not marketers - but if you can forgive them for that thaey are straight shooters and trustable.

When these new features come out (http://www.kinook.com/Forum/showthread.php?s=61dbdc7fe6279563938b1ef901859cd5&threadid=3204):

# Enhanced calendar pane
# Keywords pane / tagging improvements
# Ability to hide completed items in tree
# Add columns to Data Explorer pane
# Custom sorting in tree
# Syntax highlighting in text editor
# Revamp the help file / web site / demos

Which I bet will be quite soon - I can’t imagine any other personal information integration tool coming close.

I am extremely please with UR.

I occassionally use Mind Manager when I need to “think spacially”

I am trying the new Zoot 6 - but it looks like its months or more away from being prime time.

I use Evernote for Note sharing over the internet.

I’ve tried to like Personal Brain - I am trying 5.5 beta. But to me it is still merely a link capturing tool with a fancy display. I can’t really do any serious work with it. Its like a toy or something.

Connectedtext is intriguing, but not user friendly, really for people who are comfortable working with lots of technical commands and scripts… If Eduardo could make it more non tech user friendly, it could be really interesting - especially as it is a really powerful information organizer with a built in visual navigator…

Cheers, Ian