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UltraRecall on Bitsdujour today (27th June 2011)
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Posted by Dominik Holenstein
Jun 27, 2011 at 07:28 AM
UltraRecall (Standard and Pro edition) is available at a 61% discount today (27th June 2011):
http://www.bitsdujour.com/
Dominik
Posted by Cassius
Jun 27, 2011 at 04:17 PM
As I recall, when it first appeared, UltraRecall was VERY slow in saving Web pages. How fast (or slow) is it now, say compared with Surfulater, or MyBase, or other programs?
Posted by jimspoon
Jun 28, 2011 at 06:12 AM
I had a CRIMP attack and took the deal. I had UR 3.5, but it doesn’t work with Windows 7. Odd, that! Don’t know if UR 4.2 is much better but it does work with Win 7. The $39 price on BDJ was cheaper than the normal $50 price to upgrade to UR4. A bit of buyer’s remorse later in the day, but the deed is done. Beware the CRIMP !!
Posted by MadaboutDana
Jun 28, 2011 at 12:19 PM
Damn you! Damn you, Moriaty! Yes, I CRIMPed out, too! The shame!
I haven’t used UltraRecall for years (I was a very early adopter, but found I never really used it properly). It’s certainly made strides forward, although I was sad to find that one of its strongest features (the MDI interface) has been deprecated in favour of a tabbed interface (fine if you like that sort of thing, but not as powerful as MyInfo’s multi-arrangeable tabs-cum-windows). Nevertheless - I’ve experienced some instability in its handling of interface elements (always one of UR’s weak spots). If you customise toolbars, customise window positions (yes, it’s eminently customisable), fiddle about with this and that, it has a nasty tendency to seize up. It recovers fairly gracefully, but it’s disconcerting. Not as stable in this respect as either MyInfo or Smereka TreeProjects. It remains relatively stable if you don’t fiddle about with settings, however (although for sad CRIMPers, that means having to sit heavily on both hands!). For info, I’m running it on Windows 7 Home Premium.
Having said that, the search engine is impressively powerful (it’s a bit like an internalised version of Copernic Desktop, with the ability to skip from one “hit” to the next). So far, I’ve only imported HTML files from my bitext databases, and it whipped those in at very high speed (multiple files at a time, which is gratifying). I haven’t experimented with any actual web pages yet, but I’ll let you know what happens when I do. Some very nice features, mingled with some distinctly counter-intuitive ones, but as a repository for wads of searchable data, it’s certainly an interesting solution. Much better than askSam, for instance (and much cheaper, too).
The portable option is quite cool, too. I experimented with that yesterday evening, installing UltraRecall in DropBox and syncing with my netbook (running WinXP). I was able to open UltraRecall on the latter without issues (zero installation) and do a bit of editing work this morning while I waited for the nice man to service my car. Very convenient, and stopped my CRIMPer’s soul from ogling Skoda Yetis and wondering if I could afford one (no, I can’t, is the short and curly of it). Definitely worth the reduced price, although I’m not convinced I’m going to make enough use of it to warrant paying the full whack.
So there’s a challenge for you, Yaroslav - jumping from search hit to search hit! Smereka is such a fast, stable product that it remains my favourite high-speed solution. Having said which, UR Pro does support networking (better than MyInfo, which locks the whole file, whereas UR only locks individual items). I’m looking forward to a networkable Smereka!
Posted by Thomas
Jun 28, 2011 at 12:20 PM
Cassius wrote:
>As I recall, when it first appeared, UltraRecall was VERY slow in saving Web pages.
I believe that was dependent on automatic keyword indexing - it was slow only when indexing was on.
It’s quite possible there were some changes in that area, but I don’t use it thus can’t say for sure.