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Posted by Graham Smith
May 1, 2006 at 05:29 PM

Alx,

Thanks, I may give UR another look.

Graham

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
May 1, 2006 at 07:45 PM

Wojciech,

One more thing; Kinook’s blog ( http://www.kinook.com/blog/ ) is an interesting reference point for UltraRecall; you’ll get some insights that you won’t find in the manual, such as using UR for keeping a journal or implementing the Getting Things Done methodology. Neither of the two is something that UR was originally designed for, but they do demonstrate the versatility of the program.

alx

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

Posted by Wojciech
May 1, 2006 at 10:01 PM

Alexander,

Many thanks for your reply; you already encouraged me to use IDEA! and I think I will now start more serious adventure with UltraRecall. And yes, I promise to study the manual (something you suggested me in such a diplomatic way…) Your ‘trick’ with hiding all panes except for the Data Explorer and Details really works, now the whole thing looks much less confusing. Also thanks for mentioning the synchronisation issue, I was wondering what I am doing wrong that it works only in one direction; synchronising from UR to external location would be very convenient and this is what I expected.

Wojciech
PS. Thanks also for you later message. I am sitting just now and browsing the Kinook forum, it is helpful indeed, for example for the Outlook integration issue.

Posted by Daly de Gagne
May 8, 2006 at 01:02 PM

Chris, I am curious what your consistent set of metadata is comprised of? My approach to metadata has been more one of customizing it to fit specific types of information.

Thanks.

Daly

Chris Murtland wrote:
>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.

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