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Posted by Jon Polish
Dec 24, 2012 at 07:01 PM

You should consider Ultra Recall. It can be a document manager, or almost anything you configure it to be. If you ever try askSam, do not get the latest version (7). It is terribly buggy. The last stable version in my opinion, is version 6. Perhaps you could ask for it with a discount. Whizfolders is an excellent writing tool and deceptively rich in features. I always laugh to myself when I think that it would be nice to be able to do X and discover that Whizfolders can.

Jon

Posted by Daly de Gagne
Dec 25, 2012 at 01:02 AM

I would say don’t consider askSam at all. It’s fraught with problems, and pricey. Check the forums if they still have them up.

Daly

Jon Polish wrote:
You should consider Ultra Recall. It can be a document manager, or
>almost anything you configure it to be. If you ever try askSam, do not
>get the latest version (7). It is terribly buggy. The last stable
>version in my opinion, is version 6. Perhaps you could ask for it with a
>discount. Whizfolders is an excellent writing tool and deceptively rich
>in features. I always laugh to myself when I think that it would be nice
>to be able to do X and discover that Whizfolders can.
> >Jon

Posted by Jon Polish
Dec 26, 2012 at 01:20 PM

Daly de Gagne wrote:
I would say don’t consider askSam at all. It’s fraught with problems,
>and pricey. Check the forums if they still have them up.
> >Daly

I agree, however Simon mentioned askSam, so I provided some comment. It is available for a 30 day trial, and it does have some strengths not found elsewhere. Anyone can try it to see if it is worthwhile for them, but I have long since moved on.

Jon

Posted by Dr Andus
Dec 26, 2012 at 09:37 PM

NVivo can also do something like this. If you’re a student/academic and your university provides a copy, then it might be worth checking out. But otherwise I’m reluctant to recommend it, due to its cost and licensing regime:

http://help-nv9-en.qsrinternational.com/concepts/about_queries.htm

Another option could be ConnectedText. It allows you to save search results and also to embed individual queries into the body of a document (called ‘topic’ in CT), which gets dynamically updated, should the searched content change elsewhere.

Posted by reverendmartian
Dec 27, 2012 at 01:42 AM

I wonder if the authors of Asksam are out of business: http://www.asksam.com yielded no viable URL.

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