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Posted by JJ
Feb 29, 2008 at 09:36 PM
I too have used Omea Pro for some time, but now use UR. (Mostly because UR is still being developed)
The biggest difference I see between the 2 products (at a very high level) is OP looks at the “data world” in real-time while UR is a data vault. Here are some examples to clarify this:
OP… You can point OP to look at certain directories on your hard drive. If you add a new file OP “sees” it and indexes it automatically
UR… You copy files into UR or link them to UR and they will be indexed. You choose what goes into UR.
OP… Outllok integration is seamless. It watches your pst file in “real time”
UR… You have to synch and update UR to Outlook.
I hope you get the picture.
Which is best is up to your needs. For me, I view UR as a great data vault. I copy important files, emails… into UR. Now they are indexed and backed-up!
When I was using OP, I used it to manage projects, workflow and data.
-jj
Posted by Susanne
Mar 1, 2008 at 05:31 AM
a few more differences between UR and Omea that I have found are:
Attributes/fields:
UR: lets you define all kinds of attributes and forms for your information - if, as JJ says, you use UR as a vault to store data, that can be very helpful, if not downright essential
Omea does not have this - it supports assigning categories and/or adding annotations to your items, but no attributes.
Rules:
Omea can set up rules to do all kinds of things - almost as powerful as Zoot’s smart folders. As PIMfan said, you can have it watch all kinds of information - files, feeds, etc.
UR does not - as JJ said, everything must be “synched” manually.
Feeds:
Omea has great support for RSS feeds - f.i. using rules, you can then clip parts to keep permanently as items in your Workspace with other project related data.
UR does not
Would that one could combine the two into a single application and have the best of both worlds - and what a major mess of information overload that would probably lead to ! ;-)
Susanne
BTW: I’m a bit confused - all I could see on the web site were release notes for the Omea 2.3 version - is there actually a place where one can download that? Thanks!
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Mar 4, 2008 at 07:07 AM
Susanne wrote:
>BTW: I’m a bit
>confused - all I could see on the web site were release notes for the Omea 2.3 version - is
>there actually a place where one can download that? Thanks!
Not v2.3 specifically as far as I know; I think the idea is that they’d jump from 2.2 to 3.0. The latest version (2.2) publicly available is here
http://www.jetbrains.com/downloads.html
but I assume you’ve seen that.
Cheers
Alexander
Posted by Susanne
Mar 4, 2008 at 10:31 AM
Thanks Alexander, I have the version 2.2 and was hoping for something newer…......
BTW: (this may be for another Topic) UR have opened Beta Testing for 3.5 (at least for existing users) - I am playing around with it now ;-)
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Mar 4, 2008 at 02:39 PM
I don’t think I got an answer to my question regarding Omea Pro, so I’d like to ask it again. Does Omea have any value for someone who doesn’t use Outlook, or is all the power in its coordination with Outlook?
Thanks!
Steve Z.