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Posted by Dominik Holenstein
Mar 14, 2014 at 10:54 AM
We are having a much better time at the moment with the announced free OneNote, Clibu (Surfulater on the web), the Zettelkasten and now with Correlate.
I remember having bought a licence for Correlate 1.5 or 2.0 many years ago (it must have been in 1999 or 2000 short before I discovered TheBrain). Then they vanished. To my surprise, I got a newsletter from Correlate a week ago. It is a Norvegian company now and they provide interfaces to SharePoint, LotusNotes and Dropbox for example.
Correlate is a very nice outlining tool which allows you to link and cross-link files, links, notes etc. It is the ideal tool to create knowledge bases on an intranet.
I am “suffering” currently of a heavy CRIMPING attack…
Best,
Dominik
Posted by Daly de Gagne
Mar 14, 2014 at 01:22 PM
Greetings Dominik!
I hope all is well with you.
I’ve just taken a quick look at Correlate. I appreciate the concept. I think it is in some ways similar to Smart Outline or Planz (https://planz.codeplex.com/). I have a few concerns.
Apart from the fact that the trial is only 15 days, I see the cost of Correlate for an individual is more than $90 per year.
Also, I wonder whether one couldn’t create the same kind of knowledge map or structure using a mind map such as FreePlane or Drop Mind, or outliners, eg MyInfo or WhizFolders?
I’m sold on the notion of having such a structure.
Daly
Dominik Holenstein wrote:
We are having a much better time at the moment with the announced free
>OneNote, Clibu (Surfulater on the web), the Zettelkasten and now with
>Correlate.
>
>I remember having bought a licence for Correlate 1.5 or 2.0 many years
>ago (it must have been in 1999 or 2000 short before I discovered
>TheBrain). Then they vanished. To my surprise, I got a newsletter from
>Correlate a week ago. It is a Norvegian company now and they provide
>interfaces to SharePoint, LotusNotes and Dropbox for example.
>
>http://www.correlate.com/
>
>Correlate is a very nice outlining tool which allows you to link and
>cross-link files, links, notes etc. It is the ideal tool to create
>knowledge bases on an intranet.
>
>I am “suffering” currently of a heavy CRIMPING attack…
>
>Best,
>Dominik
>
>
>
>
Posted by Jon Polish
Mar 14, 2014 at 06:32 PM
Daly de Gagne wrote:
Greetings Dominik!
>
>I hope all is well with you.
>
>I’ve just taken a quick look at Correlate. I appreciate the concept. I
>think it is in some ways similar to Smart Outline or Planz
>(https://planz.codeplex.com/). I have a few concerns.
>
>Apart from the fact that the trial is only 15 days, I see the cost of
>Correlate for an individual is more than $90 per year.
>
>Also, I wonder whether one couldn’t create the same kind of knowledge
>map or structure using a mind map such as FreePlane or Drop Mind, or
>outliners, eg MyInfo or WhizFolders?
I would include what seems to be a big overlap with Ultra Recall. Correlate looks like it is worth investigating but without sufficient time to spend on this, I wonder if someone with experience could compare these programs.
Jon
Posted by Dr Andus
Mar 14, 2014 at 08:33 PM
Daly de Gagne wrote:
>I’ve just taken a quick look at Correlate. I appreciate the concept. I
>think it is in some ways similar to Smart Outline or Planz
>(https://planz.codeplex.com/). I have a few concerns.
We could probably include it in the project dashboard category we discussed here:
http://www.outlinersoftware.com/topics/viewt/4964/0/software-for-creating-writing-project-dashboard-with-links-to-files
>Also, I wonder whether one couldn’t create the same kind of knowledge
>map or structure using a mind map such as FreePlane or Drop Mind, or
>outliners, eg MyInfo or WhizFolders?
Freeplane can definitely work as a low cost (i.e. free) option. It’s just a simple drag and drop. In my experience though these kinds of dashboards can become quite unwieldy, once they grow too big. Then something like TheBrain might make more sense.
Posted by MadaboutDana
Mar 14, 2014 at 09:37 PM
It’s also worth bearing in mind that Notebooks (yes, my fave!) can act as a file manager/previewer, as well as a notebook and to-do app. Because it uses the underlying file system to organise its notes, you can drag and drop more or less any kind of file into it. What’s more, the files will be indexed and searchable.
Okay, so the iPad/iPhone version doesn’t have proper outlining support as such (nested notebooks would be a more accurate description), but the desktop version kind of does… ish. I find myself using it increasingly as a repository for all kinds of ‘stuff’.