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

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.

Wow! That was very interesting! Thank you very much!!!
:)
K

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.

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

To be fair my comments about MyBase were for version 6. Version 7 is the current version, I haven't tried it so I don't know if it is any better at handling large numbers of articles.

Thanks for pointing that out!
:)
K

Paul J. Miller wrote:
To be fair my comments about MyBase were for version 6. Version 7 is
the current version, I haven't tried it so I don't know if it is any
better at handling large numbers of articles.

Intra-database links: I was just giving MyBase a hard look and noticed this in the changelog for V7.0.0 V22: "#6Added: support of cross-database hyperlinks, which allows to make hyperlinks to info items saved in different .nyf databases; It's required to first have target databases open before making cross-db hyperlinks"

Universal Links: It's odd that the changelog for V7 starts at beta 18. You can see the entire V6 changelog by changing the URL but I don't know how to find what the major functional changes are from V6 to V7. I searched the V7 changelog for 'universal' and found nothing. Also nothing in the main feature page nor in the help files about linking to myBase items from outside.


Searched the changelog for 'performance' and found about a dozen references to specific actions, nothing about 'improving general database performance'. Though there is a reference to a database upgrade here http://www.wjjsoft.com/mybase_v7_docs.html#H3_3615 "The significant progress on data safety and stability has been made within the version 7.x which is built with the new 64-bit storage library (SSG-5)." So it probably runs better as it scales.