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Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Jul 7, 2012 at 03:56 PM
Stephen Zeoli wrote:
> I wrote a ?theory? of using Scrivener for project management on the Literature and Latte Forum, here:
> http://www.literatureandlatte.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=16169#p113401
> Of course, with good intentions of trying this out, I didn?t actually get that far!!!
Thanks for this; very interesting post. I also read the other contributor’s post which was linked in a comment.
Our concepts converge; I had a similar ‘theory’ for StoryBook which I’ve briefly outlined here in the past, but have been unable to test as yet. Now there’s a new version of StoryBook out I have an extra incentive.
Posted by Donovan
Jul 7, 2012 at 05:26 PM
Thank you to all who have responded. Alexander and Dr. Andus, I appreciate the thoughts on Scrivener regarding clickable links and yes, your explanation makes perfect sense. Actually, it’s my own argument against bloatware that I was failing to see with Scrivener. Meaning, they are sticking to what they do best and I was the one arguing for more in this instance.
And yes, I was probably too harsh in my judgement of myBase based on their comments in the bits thread. Maybe I only wanted an excuse to not buy a license for myBase. Our minds work in funny ways when we know what we really want (or don’t want) but feel the need to justify it.
Stephen, Rightnote is feeling good to me as well. I like the moderate approach of finding a sweet spot between simplicity and complexity that doesn’t feel like too much has been thrown in - or left out.
Again, thanks for the input and I’ll lay low and trial what I have on my laptop for now. I will continue to read through past threads and archives and learn much of what has already been hashed and re-hashed here at the forum. Thanks so much to all who have taken time to respond. I’ll be back!
Posted by Pavi
Jul 7, 2012 at 07:43 PM
Hi Donovan,
I am a user of UltraRecall, due to its flexibility. There are indeed some considerations, like a learning curve and sketchy web import at times, but overall it is a solid tool.
So I am wondering how you lost all your data - UR uses the MySQL database which is quite reliable. All new information is saved in the database when you click another node or hit the save button for embedded office files, etc. So data loss usually only occurs if the program crashes and you were editing an embedded file you hadn’t saved.
But it seems that you lost all data? It sounds like a large part of the database was corrupted, which could be a disk write error or similar. Anyway, it might be worth mailing Kinook as they are usually quite responsive, especially with errors. They might have you send the corrupted file and thus be able to determine what happened.
Best, /Pavi
Donovan wrote:
>Thanks so much to all of you for the thoughts and ideas.
>
>I plan to trial MyBase and
>RightNote. I gave Ultra Recall a chance last week, but it lost all of my data not once -
>but twice. I thought certainly “user error,” but that second time there was no
>question, it’s just buggy.
>
>It’s good to hear the positive info on MyBase from
>Cassious. Thanks!
>
>I’ll report back…
>
>(This is a great place to scour the
>archives. So much good information. Thanks!)
Posted by Dr Andus
Jul 9, 2012 at 06:14 PM
Stephen Zeoli wrote:
>I?ve been using RightNote for a few days.
>The web page archiving works well in my short-term experience.
I just downloaded RightNote to check out the web clipping feature but I ran into some problems pretty quickly. It was unable to clip a few lines of highlighted text from the BBC website, giving me a “Warning: Nothing clipped.” When I checked the Help file, it says “KNOWN ISSUE: Currently there is a problem where this auto-copying stops working in some cases.” However, the work-around suggested didn’t work either.
So I think RightNote is not quite there yet as a viable alternative to Surfulater.
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Jul 22, 2012 at 07:40 PM
Donovan wrote:
>You mentioned the 35% off at Bits, but it
>says the deal is expired and looks like that was back in February. Is there still a way to
In case you haven’t yet purchased your copy, there’s an offer in Donationcoder for 30% off until end July http://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=31591.0