An outline of outlines

Posted by Chris Murtland
May 1, 2006 at 07:54 PM

I’ve started over a couple of times with a blank UR database when I wanted to try a considerably different approach, but my current file has 2700 items and is about 95MB. I store just about everything in UR: email, files, pictures, etc. To me, it’s worth a little extra up-front effort to be able to apply a consistent set of metadata across all of my information, regardless of type.

I haven’t noticed any speed differences at all from having a completely new database to having one with thousands of items.

I bought a 2GB USB drive just so I could take my UR file between work and home; I figure it will be quite a while before my file approaches that size, and when it does I can just move some of the data into an archive UR database - or just buy a larger USB drive, which I’m sure will be available by that point if they aren’t already.

I’m interested in the idea of storing BrainStorm files within UR. It seems the two programs are at pretty much opposite ends of the spectrum in their approaches and would therefore make a nice complement. I take it UR does not index any of the BrainStorm file’s content, though, right?

Chris