General Knowledge Base vs Ask Sam vs Idea

Posted by Daly de Gagne
Jan 20, 2008 at 02:20 PM

Dominik, thanks.

Point of clarification: An imported Word file, as I understand it, lives in the UR database as opposed to being linked to it, though it may *also* be linked to the actual Word file.

If I make a change to the imported Word file, is my understanding correct that the change is not made to the linked copy.

I am already running UR successfull on a stick, and have more than 1.5 gig free on the stick, which also has on it Open Office, Skype, and a few other programs.

What happens when you want UR on more than one stick? Do you pay for another copy? Or can you install UR on as many sticks as you want?

Thanks again for your help.

It looks like once you made the shift to UR from ADM you never turned back. Any regrets—if ADM was again to be developed, but in a way with integrity, would you consider going back?

Daly

Dominik Holenstein wrote:
>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
> >
>