Jan Rifkinson
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- 2/25/2011
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Ultra Recall v3.1 available
5/4/2007
New Features
# Firefox extension
# Thunderbird extension
Enhancements
# Mouse wheel scrolls in pane under mouse pointer even when not focused.
Bug fixes
# Temporary file created for stored docume...
ADM Updates?
4/28/2007
Daly de Gagne wrote:
>Has anyone still in the loop heard anything from or about ADM's progress? [snip]
D/L page has no update beyond v4.88 last time I checked which was a few days ago.
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Jan Rifk...
Collectors/floating windows/icons
4/21/2007
Hugh Pile wrote:
>
>
>Instead I'd build on UR, using the James Fallows
>"Atlantic Monthly" template for Zoot, adapted for UR. James' template is designed
>both to store research and to structure a...
Collectors/floating windows/icons
4/20/2007
Hmmmm. Looks like I have a lot of playing around to do. Thanks for taking the time to lay all that out for me. Basically, I write newspaper/magazine articles based on research which I gather, etc. I'm...
Collectors/floating windows/icons
4/20/2007
Hugh Pile wrote:
>Scrivener, whose praises I'm always ready to sing, has a floating scratchpad
>for rapid thought-recording (as have several Mac note/databank programmes, such as
>DevonThink).
Do...
Collectors/floating windows/icons
4/20/2007
Sorry forgot to say Kinook told me they were going to add something along those lines as well. Didn't forcast date, tho. -jr
Collectors/floating windows/icons
4/20/2007
Graham Rhind wrote:
>In testing ITSD Organizer I am finding the semi-opaque floating collector window [snip]
>Would the members kindly refresh my memory about whether there are other
>packages whic...
Task managers
4/20/2007
Graham Rhind wrote:
>Thanks for the UR tips Jan. I do use UR because I have been able to replace 3 other
>programs with it and it gives me a complete customer view in one place. I hope it gets
>...
Task managers
4/20/2007
Graham Rhind wrote:
>I want a task manager to allow me to add
>a task with a single click/keystroke, show me at a glance what has to be done, and remove
>the task with a single click.
Don't think...
Task managers
4/19/2007
Graham Rhind wrote: [snip]
>I've been searching for a good task manager.[snip]
> Against this is its awkwardness in use when trying to
>quickly add, edit and list tasks, its poor handling of recurri...
Reducing my PIM/Knowledge/Writing Tools
3/31/2007
Dominik Holenstein wrote:
>[snip] UR is my workhorse now. It took me around one year to understand its potential
>and I think this is the major issue: the learning curve. I remember when I first
>in...
Today's Last UltraRecall Rant
3/26/2007
Dom, do you user v1 or beta 1.5 of the registry cleaner. Thanks for the tip as well.
And Daly, my last comment to you is that I *really* think you are barking up the wrong tree.
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Jan Rifkinson
Ri...
Trying to Trust Launchy
3/25/2007
Ken, Daly & Graham re: Launchy & UR browser problems. I could not get Launchy to work properly in FF although I could copy & paste from FF into URp w/o a problem mostly. But then I decided to try URp'...
Overly "fussy"/complex interfaces?
3/14/2007
You could say that UR falls into the fussy category but the user can also simplify it as much as needed via layouts, i.e. you can UR to one pane... or two or whatever. You can call the other panes as...
UR Metadata and Searching
3/11/2007
Dominik Holenstein wrote:
>Daly,
>
>Sorry for posting again.
>But the example above is not showing up
>correctly
Don't forget to mention to Daly that he has to right click in search criteria in or...
>Petko (MyInfo) has been pretty rigid about including any kind of calendar/date/time function which was >another thing that got me back to URp but we’ll see....
Should have written 'pretty rigid abou...
Daly de Gagne wrote:
>Jan, does this mean you're not going to use MyInfo -- or simply, as you have said before,
>you'll wait until the next version?
I'm waiting for v4 but I'm currently quite please...
Kenneth Rhee wrote:
>I'm not sure at this point I would be that optimistic. I will have to wait and see what happens next.
>
>In the meantime, I've moved onto UltraRecall3, and with the a few new fea...
Dom, Thanks for the update. I'm glad to see that all the work, money & creativity put into ADM may have been salvaged.
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Jan Rifkinson
Ridgefield, CT USA
ADM -- Just What Is Going On?
3/6/2007
Stephen R. Diamond wrote:
>I think what you're pointing out is that the Fans group was unmoderated and nominally
>open to everyone. But you were the owner. And you enforced censorship by expulsion ...
ADM -- Just What Is Going On?
3/6/2007
Stephen R. Diamond wrote:
>Jan Rifkinson wrote:
>>
>
>>Everyone has their own sense of ethics but I
>>think
>there's a baseline & IMO Eric Sommer fell below that baseline, if not for
>>treating
...
A reality check please!
3/6/2007
Jack Crawford wrote:
>I'm surprised at these endless discussions about ADM and the internal workings of the
>company behind it. May I respectfully suggest that people accept the situation for
>what...
UltraRecall V3 released
3/5/2007
What more can I say? Oh yes... download @ URL
http://www.kinook.com/UR/download.html
Released on March 5, 2007
New Features
# Windows Vista compatibility.
# Office 2007 compatibility. *
# Two-way O...
ADM -- Just What Is Going On?
3/5/2007
Stephen Zeoli wrote:
>I don't think there is any defense for Eric Somer's actions.
>
>[snip] I think it is a black eye on all
>small software developers. It may make people think twice about invest...
ADM -- Just What Is Going On?
3/5/2007
Dominik Holenstein wrote:
>My key learnings:
>- I support and use well
>supported software only. Criterias: E-Mails are answered, a support forum or group
>is available and moderated, there is at ...