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Posted by Jan Rifkinson
May 21, 2007 at 01:55 PM
to UltraRecall & everything else. Thread begun on UltraRecall
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Jan Rifkinson
Ridgefield, CT USA
Posted by Al Cantley
May 21, 2007 at 08:14 PM
Jan,
I, too, use PersonalBrain; saw the thread on the UR forum and saw that the discussion was taken offline. Can you or Ian give me some pointers on using PB in conjunction with UR? Thanks.
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
May 21, 2007 at 08:41 PM
Jan (or anyone),
What’s the status on Personal Brain 4.0? I see it is in beta. Have you tried it and is it an improvement?
Thank you.
Steve Z
Posted by Ian Goldsmid
May 21, 2007 at 09:00 PM
Using Personal Brian as a front end to UltraRecall, or OneNote 2007, or Whizfolders is simple… Each of these 3 ‘notes’ applications provides the means to copy URL’s to their content. In the case of UR, called the Item Command Line, with On eNote & WF, you can also copy URL’s to content within ‘Items’ - such as paragraph headers, specific words or phrases in the Item/Note.
So once you have a URL from one of these apps copied to the clipboard, you can then just paste it into the url field in Personal Brian. Then, PB treats them as clickable links, just like web urls, and you can thus navigate to that specific content in UR, or OneNote, or Whizfolders (or any other application that provides special windows url protocols - so that would include ConnectedText too)...
Personal Brain 4 is still in beta - currently V4.0.5.0. I have been using it since the first beta was released. They spent, and still spend a great deal of time making the graphical capability better and better, as that is their ‘sweet spot’. New features though are developing thick and fast - and they seem committed to a massive amount of future development. I think this time (it wasn’t the case with earlier versions) - that they are going to really keep evolving its capabilities, and make it into a true ‘killer app’. I believe its now possible for anyone to register to download the beta…
The only other app of its kind that I am waiting for with baited breath is Tinderbox for Windows, from Eastgate systems - which is supposed to be released in beta in July.
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
May 22, 2007 at 06:48 AM
Ian Goldsmid wrote:
>Using Personal Brian as a front end to UltraRecall, or OneNote 2007, or Whizfolders is
>simple… Each of these 3 ‘notes’ applications provides the means to copy URL’s to
>their content.
Evernote, too, provides URLs to entries or categories of entries. Another application that provides such links is Outlook (with the help of freeware Outlook Linker)
One thing I am worried about is whether such URLs change when the content is re-organised. In the case of Outlook and Evernote I know that they provide a unique and permament link to each entry, but I don’t know about UR or WF. This would be crucial in order to maintain a valid reference from the front end.
This kind of functionality is about the only thing I miss in Brainstorm and Zoot. Brainstorm’s entry identifiers are not permanent, while Zoot, as far as I can tell, does not provide such URLs (though I may easily be mistaken, overwhelmed by what else it offers!)
Last but not least, URLs to content are on the coming-soon feature list for Surfulater, a powerful app on which I’ll be posting separately.
alx