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Posted by Mitchell Kastner
Feb 22, 2012 at 09:12 PM
Has anyone extensively used RightNote which is being offered today on BDJ? The pro version even with a discount is pricey and I have been sorely disappointed in some outliners inability to export RTF notes to MS Word. (I test drove UR and when I cut and pasted txt files from the Web into the UR database as RTF files they would not export to MS Word. By contrast, Writing Outliner exported those notes perfectly because Writing Outliner creates MS Word notes as outline nodes.) Btw: don’t underestimate MS Word’s outlining capabilities especially with the advent of the Navigation pane. When MS Word and OneNote are both open together, OneNote stays docked to MS Words and you can create notes in the latter that are linked to text in the former. Still very early in my experimentation with both products interacting with each other, but I am hopeful, they will expedite the transformation of research into a publishable or at least presentable document.
Posted by quant
Feb 22, 2012 at 09:21 PM
“I test drove UR and when I cut and pasted txt files from the Web into the UR database as RTF files they would not export to MS Word”
what do mean that RTF files would not export to MS word? RTF *is* MS proprietary format.
Posted by JohnK
Feb 22, 2012 at 11:28 PM
I can’t say I have extensively tested RightNote, but I have tested it enough to buy a licence using the BDJ offer.
Since my last test, crucially, RightNote has added web page capture (which seems to work very well, even on complex pages). The combination of the simplicity of the program (which is inspired by Keynote) with web page capture, tempted me.
There’s a thread over at DonationCoder where the writer of Keynote (going under the name ‘Tranglos’) opens the conversation by saying that RightNote is Keynote ‘done better’, quite a compliment:
http://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=29504.0
And I added in that conversation that the addition of web page capture puts RightNote in competition with all the other apps fighting for the “information dump” market (Ultra Recall/TreeProjects/MyBase/EverNote/Surfulater/etc).
CRIMP means I have licences for all of those bar MyBase. But I always seek simplicity, which brings the shortlist down to RightNote and TreeProjects. And RightNote, in my testing, has more reliable full-page web capture, as well as a decent “clipper” (partial page captures).
Another plus for RightNote is that is offers a range of editor options: plain text, RTF, and my favourite, Rich View (http://www.trichview.com/), a very powerful editor, much better than RTF. RightNote has all the other critical features I require (global search across all notebooks, and excellent configuration options).
For future information dumping, I plan to use RightNote, and if all goes well, I will gradually move information to it from other programs.
Re export: obviously only you can satisfy yourself on that issue. The Rich View editor does support export to Word, but RightNote has not implemented that yet. On the BDJ offer page, the author says he would like to do so soon. So if you buy, email the author and encourage him to stick to his plan…
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Feb 23, 2012 at 01:22 AM
JohnK wrote:
“And I added in that conversation that the addition of web page capture puts RightNote in competition with all the other apps fighting for the ?information dump? market (Ultra Recall/TreeProjects/MyBase/EverNote/Surfulater/etc).”
A significant feature of RightNote vs. most of the other programs mentioned is the Spreadsheet Note type. This is integral in RN, vs the OLE solution (embedded Excel object) that is offered by UltraRecall among others.
Posted by JoGirl
Feb 24, 2012 at 11:40 AM
This is day number three for RightNote on Bits du Jour. It must be very appealing or tempting and I would probably get it if I didn’t already have OneNote. But a second app for note taking would only make me work harder at devising a system to use them both and without overlap.