General Knowledge Base vs Ask Sam vs Idea

Posted by Dominik Holenstein
Jan 20, 2008 at 07:06 AM

Daly,

I would use UR.

Reasons:
- You can define the attributes and enter the metadata to each article on a form.
- I suggest to run a test and import all Word files. Then these files are indexed and accessible through the UR search
- UR is very stable even with huge databases. My main database has 2000 items and is 15 MB. No crashes, no access violations on two completely different computers
- USB option: Very nice, you can carry your databasse and UR on a USB stick with you and work on *any* computer
- Logical linking: you can link together similar articles or articles which belongs together
- Adding texts to each item, whether in the editor or on the notes panes. Further, you can export the texts and notes to word
- Tight integration with Word. If the editor is not sufficient you can do the editing in Word (to add tables, for example) and load the text back to UR

I don’t know Surfulater, askSam or GKB well enough to say these are better or worse tools for your project.
I just recommend UR because I am usin it every day and because I don’t have any issues with it (keep wood touched).

Dominik