myBase is on sale today at Bits duJour

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Posted by Bernhard
Dec 12, 2019 at 08:33 AM

Windows, macos and Linux licenses are sold separately.

Posted by MadaboutDana
Dec 13, 2019 at 11:20 AM

Hm, the latest macOS version is really quite impressive.

Much as I like MacJournal, I find myBase rather easier to use despite an (almost) equally comprehensive range of features.

MacJ is, of course, free, but myBase isn’t expensive for what it does.

Mind you, one of the areas where it really doesn’t match MacJournal is in export. MacJ has turned out to be one of the most flexible solutions for keeping extensive notes and then outputting them in a variety of formats (although some of them don’t work very well, e.g. PDF).

But my CRIMPer instinct is itching…

Posted by Jon Polish
Dec 13, 2019 at 01:23 PM

Windows is my OS, so maybe our experiences are different. myBase is intriguing and I have gone through cycles of approach/avoidance over many years. It has been a year since I last tried and dropped it. Here are some prominent impressions that have stuck.

1. Search is good, but not outstanding. Ultra Recall, InfoQube and MyInfo are my standards. It is also slow with large databases as the program appears to re-index during the search (On this I could be wrong. Perhaps it is a setting I have missed.)

2. I have yet to find a way to select notes and export them into one document, say Word, RTF or HTML. myBase will export one at a time. Hardly ideal for reports.

3. A big deal is made of hierarchical tags, but they are not truly hierarchical. You can arrange the tag in a tree, but inheritance is not automatic. I can see some advantage to that, but the same can be accomplished with standard ((non-hierarchical) tags. For me, CintaNotes and InfoQube are gold standards for implementing hierarchical tags.

4. Cannot display within the program (Word, Excel, PDF, etc.). I can live with this but Ultra Recall makes my life easier in this regard. And TheBrain v10.x as well.

There are other oddities, but these are the showstoppers for me.

Jon

Posted by satis
Dec 13, 2019 at 10:32 PM

MadaboutDana wrote:
>Much as I like MacJournal, I find myBase rather easier to use despite an
>(almost) equally comprehensive range of features.

I’d like to try using MacJournal as a replacement for Day One, but the fact that it’s free actually makes me more reticent; I’d prefer to use an app I feel is being supported because it’s earning its keep for its developer.

I wasn’t familiar with myBase so I took a cursory look at it. I don’t see how it compares to a text editor (with storage functionality) like MacJournal.

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