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Posted by Dominik Holenstein
Mar 15, 2014 at 03:13 PM
@Daly,
It is nice to meet the old campers here again :-) ! Are you still missing ADM like me? My main work horse is TheBrain in the meantime.
Regarding Correlate:
Yes, you can achieve the same with MyInfo, any MIndMapping tool or with WhizFolders.
I personally like the look and feel of Correlate. It is not a state of the art tool nor it is very polished. Correlate is not 2014 it is more 1999 or 2001. But the files created with Correlate are very small it the application opens much faster than TheBrain, MindManager or UltraRecall.
@Jon - I don’t think that one can compare UltraRecall with Correlate. UR is more a free-form database with an outline and has many more features. Correlate’s main purpose (my view) is linking and not storing.
@DrAndus - I agree, you can to the same more or less with Freeplane as well. Further, Correlate is not the perfect tool when you want to create huge data pots. Then TheBrain is the much better tool for that.
Correlate will replace MindManager on my notebooks just because MindManager is very expensive. Correlate’s price is not low but you get a very stable and lightweight application for a single price without having to pay a fixed amount every year. Further, the licence is linked to the user and not to the PC/notebook. You can therefore use it on all your devices.
TheBrain remains my data pot. I will use Correlate for Action and Project plans, Meeting notes, general note taking, writing etc. There will be many small files which will be linked into TheBrain. By the way, you can have several Correlate files open on your pc/notebook while working.
Dominik
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Mar 18, 2014 at 02:02 PM
Dominik Holenstein wrote:
>I personally like the look and feel of Correlate. It is not a state of
>the art tool nor it is very polished. Correlate is not 2014 it is more
>1999 or 2001.
It is indeed. I believe I first tested Correlate back in 2001 on behalf of a governmental agency I was working for. We finally didn’t purchase, which is just as well given its subsequent demise (also the agency’s demise!)
At the time it _was_ state of the art, and possibly the only solution for transparently organising files across Sharepoint containers. I am quite certain that MindManager provided this several years later.
I installed the new Correlate hoping that it would provide similar features for Dropbox and other modern containers. However, whereas it seems to work as such in Office 365 and Sharepoint, its Dropbox ‘integration’ appears nothing more than linking to local files via the Windows shell and to files online via shared links: “With the Correlate K-Map Client you can use the Dropbox Desktop Application for Windows and the Dropbox web-link feature.”
In this day and age that Dropbox is standard and its API allows even mobile apps to access it and sync content, I find the above rather simplistic. Relying on the shell, in particular, means that if I switch computers and the Dropbox files are in another path, linking will no longer work. I can workaround this with junctions, but then I don’t need Correlate for linking.
Correlate does seem to offer advantages in corporate environments, such as the possibility to gather material and produce collective PDFs http://www.correlate.com/why-correlate/correlate-4-pdf/ Maybe down the road real Dropbox integration will follow too…
Posted by Daly de Gagne
Mar 19, 2014 at 04:32 PM
@Dominik
After your last post, I gave Correlate another go, but wasn’t impressed. And the aesthetics of the program leave much to be desired.
I’ve also played around with some of the programs which have been mentioned in this regard.
I decided I’ve work with Planz for a few months. Planz is free, and was developed by the information school at the University of Washington. It calls itself “a light overlay” for the Windows file system. You can outline in it, insert files, insert text from files, link, etc There is an on-line manual which includes videos.The manual is at http://kftf.ischool.washington.edu/planner/User_Manual/HTML/user_manual.html
Planz can be downloaded at http://kftf.ischool.washington.edu/planz_install.html
Planz is not a fancy program. It strikes me as being simple without being simplistic. And it looks better than Correlate.
Daly