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Posted by Zargron
Jul 21, 2007 at 03:48 AM
Interesting comments you made Thomas regards do-Organizer |vs| UltraRecall.
Anyone know how do-Organizer goes with regards to flexibility / ease of data import / export?
Posted by Ian Goldsmid
Jul 21, 2007 at 10:40 PM
Zargron wrote:
>Interesting comments you made Thomas regards do-Organizer |vs|
>UltraRecall.
>
>Anyone know how do-Organizer goes with regards to flexibility / ease
>of data import / export?
do-Organizer tries to integrate with other stuff, like Outlook, Outlook Express, but it does a dreadful job compared with Ultrarecall, Personal Brain, Omea, and Zoot. Its export facilities are also highly sub-optimal. The development pace of do-Organizer has slowed to a crawl. The pattern I’ve seen over the years is that the GEMX development team do a spurt of development, then release a product with a lot of ragged edges, then take almost forever to clean it all up…
do-Organizer is certainly an interesting concept, but I wouldn’t take it seriously for about another year….
Regards, IJG
Posted by Thomas
Jul 22, 2007 at 08:15 PM
It depends on what you need to export.
I have for example found an export of emails great, something I can’t see how that could be done for example in about mentioned UltraRecall easily (maybe it can be done, I have never done that and it’s not obvious right away).
I can’t speak about other export methods as I didn’t use them.
But…doOrganizer is based on a third party SQL database. I have downloaded frontend to that database, and now I can manipulate my data anyway I wish. Of course you would better have to know some basic SQL at least. But that would give you an extra power over UltraRecall, where you can’t see directly the database, it’s only planned for future.
You can also use SQL directly from within doOrganizer, I don’t know how complete and easy that is.
I think the doOrganizer development is OK, but Ian might be right as he watched the company over few years, and I only did so over few months. One annoying thing is they introduced a bug with recurring appointments in one of the releases and months later it’s still unfixed thus recurring appointments turned to be useless in my case.
One more thing is they boast about first-class support. I had good experience, but quite a few people on the forum didn’t, and their excuse didn’t sound much believable to me (but that’s just my feeling, though well backed up by available data).
Posted by PIMfan
Jul 23, 2007 at 10:29 PM
Thomas wrote:
>But…doOrganizer is based on a third party SQL database. I have downloaded
>frontend to that database, and now I can manipulate my data anyway I wish. Of course you
>would better have to know some basic SQL at least. But that would give you an extra power
>over UltraRecall, where you can’t see directly the database, it’s only planned for
>future.
Ask and ye shall receive: Kinook posted a message today with a link to a SQLLite console that allows you to access the database directly.
http://www.kinook.com/Forum/showthread.php?s=03244f20cf5e737d26a057459a321290&threadid=2825
My favorite thing about Kinook is that the upgrades and development of the UR platform never seem to stop….Kudos to them..
PIMfan
Posted by Thomas
Oct 9, 2007 at 04:57 PM
MyInfo 4 public beta was finally released.