Tags or categories?

[iLiAS]

Hello all,

I just started evaluating Ultra Recall, and so far it seems to be a very powerful and, most importantly, useful and practical application. Good job Kinook!

I have a question though. Is there any way to attach tags (or Outlook-style categories) to an item? Can this be done via custom attributes or is there a better way? And, a better question would be, can I sort and group on those tags/categories later on? How could I massage and manipulate the views of my items based on those tags? Any suggestions?

TIA and congratulations again for a job very nicely done.

-ilias.

[kevina]

As you mention, one way to add "Category" information to your Info Items is using custom Attribute(s)[1]. You can later sort using this attribute (in the Related Items Pane[2]), search on the value (using an Advanced Search[3]), which would also provide a way to "group" the data as well.

You can also create custom templates[4], which could have a special default Icon and/or automatically have some or all of these custom attributes pre-assigned (even with default values if desired). The template of an Info Item is also searchable which provides an additional way to organize and identify Info Items. You can also later change the template of an Info Item (to another compatible template: any template based on the same Core[5] template is considered compatible).

Finally, you can assign the template of your choice as the Default Child Template attribute value to any Info Item, which determines the Info Item type that is created when inserting new child Info Items with the Insert key (or when dragging stuff from the clipboard onto an Info Item)...

[1] http://www.kinook.com/UR/Manual/?attribute.htm
[2] http://www.kinook.com/UR/Manual/?relateditemspane.htm
[3] http://www.kinook.com/UR/Manual/?advancedsearch.htm
[4] http://www.kinook.com/UR/Manual/?template.htm
[5] http://www.kinook.com/UR/Manual/?coretemplates.htm

[kevina]

The other way to organize your information is simply relating them together (the hierarchy of your Info Items). The major advantage over simply using Outlook-style Categories is that Ultra Recall provides a better visual representation by displaying the relationships between Info Items in the Data Explorer, but also provides the other mentioned ways of structuring or annotating your data.

This concept is extended with Logical Linking technology which allows the same Info Item to be related to multiple parent Info Items. With Outlook-style categories, you enter list of categories which can't be easily visualized. With Ultra Recall, Info Items can be created for any type of data/file/url, then related to one or more other Info Items (of any type) directly in the Data Explorer Pane. This provides grouping (in multiple ways), can be searched, etc.