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Ultra Recall vs myBase
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Posted by karel
Jun 16, 2018 at 01:03 PM
Hi and thanks for reading my post!
I have nailed my search to these two candidates: Ultra Recall and myBase. They both impressed the heck out of me. They also work very similarly in many ways. From my testing I lean towards one of them (though I am not gonna write which one so that not to influence you :-) but I have not found any big, deal-making/breaking difference between them. I haven’t seen any comparison on the web so I come here to ask if anybody could kindly share his/her experience with the differences between these apps, pls? Any interesting differences worth taking into consideration?
Many thanks in advance for any kind help!
Best regards,
Karel
Posted by Paul J. Miller
Jun 17, 2018 at 08:35 AM
I have tried both of these.
Ultra Recall is very good and the performance doesn’t suffer when there are twenty thousand articles plus.
MyBase is also quite good, it has hierarchical tagging which I would have liked to see in Ultra Recall and I liked the interface. But it does slow down a lot when the number of articles increases. Once the notebase gets above a couple of thousand it becomes very very sluggish.
Recently I have tried InfoQube which is very complex and is a steep learning curve. You HAVE to read the documentation. However it is much more open ended than either Ultra Recall or MyBase. I managed to simulate hierarchical tagging, even though it is not built in you can build it yourself. And it passed the load test (admittedly only ten thousand articles so far and not all in the same tree) there was no noticable slow down.
Posted by karel
Jun 17, 2018 at 09:36 AM
Wow! That was very interesting! Thank you very much!!!
:)
K
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Jun 18, 2018 at 05:32 AM
Hi,
I’m happy to see myBase mentioned again in this forum; I believe it’s a very capable information manager with some very interesting features.
For me, the main differentiation between the two is actually the platform(s) they run on: UltraRecall is Windows only, while myBase also runs on Linux and MacOS.
Correspondingly, UltraRecall’s integration with the Windows environment is very powerful, e.g. with Microsoft Office, including Outlook for contacts and calendar.
Posted by karel
Jun 18, 2018 at 06:17 PM
I am a Windows slave, but availability for MacOS is certainly a very powerful selling point.
Considering this MacOS, one app that caught my interest there is Devon Think. It seems very potent indeed.
:)
Karel