Ultra Recall offers flexible outlining and data management

By Ian Harac, 

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Super Remember Conventional 5.0 ($49, 45-day no cost trial) is a easy describing, note-taking and papers control device that is just like TreePad and MemoMaster, but has a more solid set of functions that I find especially useful.

Ultra Recall's interface is easy to understand, but the features are more powerful than average for an outlining and document-managing tool.

The "Data Explorer" lite reveals your "Info Items" in an summarize view. The main lite is a tabbed show that reveals the actual details in each product. Other glass show child products or the functions of the current product. There is a lot of versatility in how these glass are set out, and Super Remember allows you to preserve and change to a wide range of templates, so you can have one agreement for some projects and a different agreement for others.

The ordered summarize structure for the Information Traveler lite is a well-worn conventional. Super Remember provides a very awesome new perspective, though, and it is a function I've been looking for for a while.

You can data file the same product under several hierarchies, which is useful, as one of the flaws of the summarize framework is that many items of details rationally are supposed to be in different areas at the same time. With Super Remember, you can use alt-drag to position a connected duplicate of products under a different shrub. Because this is a referrals link, rather than a cut-and-paste of the details, you still only have one "copy" of the product, but it can be seen, modified, and so on under however many plants it rationally connected with.

An writer might have a shrub of "Characters," for example, and also a shrub for each section in a book. The same personality can be found in the section shrub for each section he seems to be in, and in the personality shrub, and anywhere else it is practical to position that data product.

Also , you can give each product in the $100 Super Remember Expert (but not the $50 Standard) improvements. Attributes are simple data labels that allow Super Remember to add some framework to a piece of details. A good example is the built-in "Contact" product, which has functions for name, contact number, and so forth.

Ultra Remember allows connecting to data files and exterior resources, such as Websites. It also provides an in-app web browser with the capability to preserve webpages as products within your Super Remember data source. The in-app web browser is sufficient, with some minimal making problems on some webpages.

While Super Recall's help data file contains records on most of the program's functions, some of the details is rare, and it could use more of a guide, rather than referrals, inclination.

The interface is generally clean and stick to Windows UI recommendations, except for the frustrating "partial menus" where only a part of the products show until you float on the selection for a short time. None of the options or configurations could disable this actions.

The Standard version, at $50, does not have some transfer and trade functions, as well as the capability to add customized functions or make customized types. A full-feature evaluation is at designer Kinook Programs Web site.

The Expert version, at $100, is at the higher end for programs of this type, but may well be worth it for many customers, especially instructors or those who have to control complicated projects that mix comprehensive written text products, Web resources, and official data components.