New Licensed user Suggestions

[Will Eatherton]

Ok have been using UltraRecall for past week and went ahead today and bought a license today. It is a very well done (elegant) program and is currently about 90% of what I want as a compliment to outlook. The reasons that I decided to make the plunge and buy were :
-- very impressed with 1st release, hope that is good sign of what is still to come
-- like the fact that the forums seem to have good information flow with developers involved
-- like fact the company has been around for 5 years and has other products (hopefully won't go belly up or EOL this tool and leave me with tons of my time invested in moving my information into a dead-end tool)
-- like the item attributes/child/parent

After using the tool pretty heavily and also reading the forums once over top to bottom here are my suggestions.

Priority 1) Need to be about to SaveAs or pulish text items to HTML. I would like to do thinks like write mini essays or reports in ultraRecall (maybe with figures) and push it out as a single HTML file to either put on my web page or mail out. Right now I can do a print to PDF (I have acrobat) and mail that but it is not as good for posting on the web

Priority 1) Cut&Paste performance : I have been fairly busy moving 100's of IE links, Personal bran nodes, OneNote pages, and PersonalKnowbase text files into Ultrarecall (yes I have been a PIM junky in the past but am now consolidating . There are frequent pastes of links and files (say 1MB) that take much longer the a similar paste to other programs like OneNote (for Onenote I think it is more copying files into the OneNote directory and making link rather then then moving it into a consolidated database like in ultrarecall, is this the reason for the increase delay ? ). I have seen it hang for 10's of seconds (which for IE links seems very strange).
-- If there was way to improve performance of cut and paste or link imports I think it would be very useful

Priority 2) Ability to publish to server notes as web pages would be nice in that I could eliminate any additional blog tools. I dont have a Mac but I hear Tinderbox (http://www.eastgate.com/Tinderbox/) is a good combination of PIM and blog tool that makes it easier to quickly publish.

Priority 2) Way to set an alarm clock or tickler on any item (to have item pop up in future)

Priority 2) Maybe if general outlook sync is difficult, focusing on having synch between outlook and UltraRecall for tasks and notes that would get the majority of the benefit. With tasks and notes I believe that would help tie together the most important part of pda, outlook, and UltraRecall (the pda/outlook synch would of course be independent of UtlraRecall). I can't think of any pressing reasons why I need to synch calendar, email or contacts between outlook and ultraRecall (in past week I always have both outlook and and UltraRecall up on my desktop).

Priority 2) {copied from forum suggestion that I agree with } In long documents, it is helpful to be able to link a sentence or phase with another info item (as opposed to just linking the entire item detail to another info item). It would be nice, then, to be able to jump from a place in one info detail to a place in another info detail (or, at least, jump to another info item)

Priority 3) it would be cool to have a personal brain type viewer of the parent/child/sibling relationship in the ultrarecall database (maybe

Priority 3) would be nice on the web page to have maybe a user upload directory for folks to upload example databases, or better yet templates, ability to leverage off of other folks template creation seems very powerful

Suggestions of things not to do
-- I saw someone mention in forum the following which I disagree with, I like ability to save email from outlook in a project in ultrarecall and then later open the message up and reply to it. So please DON"T do : "- don't show 'click here to open message' if imported message was "moved" into Ultra Recall on mime viewer items"
-- I used personal brain for about a year and the docking feature (little circle icon that is always supposed to be on "top" of desktop) is superfically nice but it also seemed to cause a lot of problems (on top of presentations, accidently got clicked, always moving it around). I dont think this adds much value
-- tablet-pc and/or handwriting : I have been using tablet-pc for about a year (yes I am a gadget freak as well as a PIM freak and I have really tried to integrate it into my lifestyle but it just isn't working. I personally would suggest given the small market for these not to spend effort on anything special related to handwriting
-- PDA UltraRecall application. If you could do this well between palm/pocketPC I would be all for it, but I have never seen (except outlook) a PIM deploy on both PC and PDA and usable.
-- be careful about infoselect trap of adding kitchen synch (email support really scared me). I guess what most folks mean on this is please listen to me but no anyone else Seriously though there is an elegance in UltraRecall that you want to keep.