Comments on: Our first release for 2006. An exciting year ahead. http://blog.surfulater.com/2006/01/11/our-first-release-for-2006/ Surfulater, the journey continues... Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:22:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: nevf http://blog.surfulater.com/2006/01/11/our-first-release-for-2006/#comment-576 nevf Sat, 04 Feb 2006 00:59:24 +0000 http://blog.surfulater.com/2006/01/11/our-first-release-for-2006/#comment-576 Hi Jerry, Thanks for you post. Peoples product requirements vary all over the place, so what is best for one isn't necessarily best for another. As for which one is best, that's for you to decide, not me. I can point you at our "Success Stories" page http://www.surfulater.com/success_stories.html and tell you our customers think Surfulater is great, as I'm sure the CS folks can. Surfulater includes full text boolean search. You can use and, or, not ()'s and wildcards * and ?. It is fast and I have not had any comments from our users to indicate it isn't fast enough. I will be adding advanced searching capabilities in a future release. It doesn't search across KB's at present. Areas where Surfulater may better meet you needs than CS include: - Surfulater includes a range of Article Templates which enable it to be used for Personal Information (PIM) tasks. These include Todo list, Contacts, Music Catelogue, Code Snippets etc. You can also create you own templates. - New Articles can be created from Clipboard content. This lets you create content from other Windows applications, such as MS Word etc. in addition to the Web. - Clipboard content can be appended to any article without having to use edit, move to position and paste. - Related Articles and Folders can be cross referenced using 'See Also' links. This lets you build a web of related information. - A single instance of an Article can be in any number of folders at once. This gets around the common problem of "which folder is best". - A Chronological view of all content shows articles in date added order, making it easy to locate your most recent articles. - Articles include Metadata, Comments, See Also links, Attachments and Thumbnails. Everything is in the one place and is edited in situ. - You can see the full content of all Articles in a Folder at once vs. just one Article (Document) at a time. - Articles are (optionally) included along with Folders in the Tree so you don't waist screen space with a separate window listing documents. - Text is stored in open industry standard XML, not an Access Database. Further Article Templates are plain HTML and also stored in the XML File. - Files of any type can be Attached to Articles and Folders. eg. Word Docs, PDF Files, ZIP files etc. They are then opened in their native application. You can also Link to external files. There's more, but I've already gone a bit beyond succinct. :) I suggest you also look at the "Compare Us" page: http://www.surfulater.com/compareus.html and "Surfulater, Under the Hood and Down the Road" http://blog.surfulater.com/2005/11/21/surfulater-under-the-hood-and-down-the-road/ I hope that's been of help. Hi Jerry,
Thanks for you post. Peoples product requirements vary all over the place, so what is best for one isn’t necessarily best for another. As for which one is best, that’s for you to decide, not me. I can point you at our “Success Stories” page http://www.surfulater.com/success_stories.html and tell you our customers think Surfulater is great, as I’m sure the CS folks can.

Surfulater includes full text boolean search. You can use and, or, not ()’s and wildcards * and ?. It is fast and I have not had any comments from our users to indicate it isn’t fast enough. I will be adding advanced searching capabilities in a future release. It doesn’t search across KB’s at present.

Areas where Surfulater may better meet you needs than CS include:

- Surfulater includes a range of Article Templates which enable it to be used for Personal Information (PIM) tasks. These include Todo list, Contacts, Music Catelogue, Code Snippets etc. You can also create you own templates.

- New Articles can be created from Clipboard content. This lets you create content from other Windows applications, such as MS Word etc. in addition to the Web.

- Clipboard content can be appended to any article without having to use edit, move to position and paste.

- Related Articles and Folders can be cross referenced using ‘See Also’ links. This lets you build a web of related information.

- A single instance of an Article can be in any number of folders at once. This gets around the common problem of “which folder is best”.

- A Chronological view of all content shows articles in date added order, making it easy to locate your most recent articles.

- Articles include Metadata, Comments, See Also links, Attachments and Thumbnails. Everything is in the one place and is edited in situ.

- You can see the full content of all Articles in a Folder at once vs. just one Article (Document) at a time.

- Articles are (optionally) included along with Folders in the Tree so you don’t waist screen space with a separate window listing documents.

- Text is stored in open industry standard XML, not an Access Database. Further Article Templates are plain HTML and also stored in the XML File.

- Files of any type can be Attached to Articles and Folders. eg. Word Docs, PDF Files, ZIP files etc. They are then opened in their native application. You can also Link to external files.

There’s more, but I’ve already gone a bit beyond succinct. :)

I suggest you also look at the “Compare Us” page: http://www.surfulater.com/compareus.html and “Surfulater, Under the Hood and Down the Road” http://blog.surfulater.com/2005/11/21/surfulater-under-the-hood-and-down-the-road/

I hope that’s been of help.

]]> By: jerryk http://blog.surfulater.com/2006/01/11/our-first-release-for-2006/#comment-573 jerryk Fri, 03 Feb 2006 09:19:23 +0000 http://blog.surfulater.com/2006/01/11/our-first-release-for-2006/#comment-573 I wonder if you could succinctly describe why Surfulater is better than Contentsaver. Contentsaver' weakest link is its searching abilities--is Surfulater better (faster or allow searching across knowledge bases) and what's the evidence? Thanks for your engagement. I wonder if you could succinctly describe why Surfulater is better than Contentsaver. Contentsaver’ weakest link is its searching abilities–is Surfulater better (faster or allow searching across knowledge bases) and what’s the evidence? Thanks for your engagement.

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