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Posted by Franz Grieser
Feb 6, 2019 at 07:39 AM
PIMfan wrote:
>I don’t recall noticing before that there was a Win 10 App Store version
>available (new? or just overlooked by me before?).
I’ve noticed it a few months ago.
>This is the first App Store app that I would consider buying, especially
>since the App Store version is $9.99, which is a steal.
Do you happen to know the difference to the $99 version that’s available on Ingo’s website?
Posted by MadaboutDana
Feb 6, 2019 at 10:49 AM
The $99 version is the Pro multi-user version (so between the individual desktop and server versions), allowing multiple people to use the same database.
It’s a really interesting program. I acquired it fairly recently (I think I mentioned it somewhere?), but so far, haven’t found anything I can usefully apply it to. But as an arch-CRIMPer, I live in hope!
Cheers!
Bill
Posted by Franz Grieser
Feb 7, 2019 at 07:43 AM
I asked Ingo Straub, the developer, about the differences between the Professional Edition and the Windows Store editions. He wrote:
The Pro edition ...
* is multi-user-enabled
* does not run in a sandbox and is therefore able to access files and folders wherever they are stored
* displays data is a bit slower than the sandboxed edition.
Posted by MadaboutDana
Nov 11, 2020 at 10:38 AM
I’ve just reinstalled the InfoRapid Knowledgebase Builder (iOS, macOS, Windows, possibly also Android?) on my Mac after buying the iOS version.
This after a lengthy search for a piece of knowledge-mapping software that wasn’t just an overblown mind-mapping app.
It’s a profoundly impressive piece of software, with a huge range of useful features and a very good search function. In many ways, it’s the perfect embodiment of the Zettelkasten concept, allowing you to view (and export – a vital point) information in many different ways, from many different angles.
Because of the fairly steep (but by no means vertiginous!) learning curve, I had failed to appreciate just how powerful and yet user-friendly it is. It’s worth spending time on the tutorials (of which there are many, accessible both from the apps and on the InfoRapid website). Yes, at first glance the GUI is slightly old-fashioned, but the more you use it, the more you appreciate the speed and efficiency with which you can input and manipulate information.
I’ve also found the 3D rotating view amazingly conducive to meditative states wherein sudden insights appear as you watch the informational elements gently circulating… no, really!
As I wait for Christian and Sascha’s The Archive to evolve into a world-beating Integrated Thinking Environment (https://zettelkasten.de/the-archive/roadmap/), I’m finding Knowledgebase Builder a very satisfactory alternative.
Cheers,
Bill
Posted by Hugh
Nov 11, 2020 at 11:48 AM
Interesting, thank you Bill - and comparatively extremely inexpensive.