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UltraRecall on BDJ - Jan/28/2009
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Posted by Dominik Holenstein
Jan 21, 2009 at 10:58 AM
Jan/28/2009: UltraRecall will be on Bits du Jour with a 62% reduction:
http://www.bitsdujour.com/software/ultra-recall/
Dominik
Posted by Jan Rifkinson
Jan 21, 2009 at 03:34 PM
On the Bits de Jour website, I posted the following review:
This is a good, stable, mature program that didn’t go far enough. I tested ver3 & committed all my data to it for many, many months until the developers announced on their forum that no further development of the product would be undertaken.
When this fact became a conversation with several surprised & disappointed users, they changed their announcement to something less specific.
When I questioned them about this change in language several times, they banned me from from their forum.
They do reply to technical questions & have promised to resolve any bugs which they have done.
Sadly, at this point—based on their actions—i have no faith that this program will be developed further. Having said that, it may be enough to satisfy your needs.
However, there are a few other programs on the horizon that might end up doing it all. Refer yourself to the outliner forum @ http://www.outlinersoftware.com/ for discussion on those possibilities as well as a discussion on Kinook’s UltraRecall
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Jan Rifkinson
Ridgefield CT USA
Posted by Jan Rifkinson
Jan 21, 2009 at 06:20 PM
To his credit, Kyle Alons, Kinook developer posted a reply to my comment @ the link listed in Dominik’s post.
Sounds like the same double talk to me but I sincrely hope I’m wrong. They say sales have picked up. That’s good for Kinook (I’m rooting for them) & maybe good for UR users. The proof is in the pudding. We shall see.
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Jan Rifkinson
Ridgefield CT USA
Posted by Daly de Gagne
Jan 21, 2009 at 07:02 PM
I’m glad you posted to the discount site, and also glad that Kyle Alons responded.
Kinook has, as others have noted, significant issues with their communication and public relations performance.
It is unfortunate - the program has many merits, although I have chosen not to use it.
The program deserves to continue development. Perhaps the public discussion you helped to provoke, Jan, is responsible for the uptick in sales.
The other issue Kinook has is that its help files are not all that helpful - either they are a long description of features or resort to geek-speak.
Daly
Jan Rifkinson wrote:
>To his credit, Kyle Alons, Kinook developer posted a reply to my comment @ the link
>listed in Dominik’s post.
>
>Sounds like the same double talk to me but I sincrely hope
>I’m wrong. They say sales have picked up. That’s good for Kinook (I’m rooting for them)
>& maybe good for UR users. The proof is in the pudding. We shall see.
>
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>Jan
>Rifkinson
>Ridgefield CT USA
Posted by Hugh
Jan 22, 2009 at 09:36 AM
I used to use UR. It’s very sad to read of the current tangle. I thought that by the standards of the time, only a few years ago, it was a very good programme indeed - if one could work out how to use it to its fullest effect. I was surprised by the extent to which I could not really understand parts of the help files. I thought perhaps it was just me. The words were there, but they seemed to communicate much less than the developers clearly intended. I always thought that if they bought two weeks of the time of a freelance experienced in wriitng help files and tutorials, they could have transformed the picture.