I am a fairly experienced and happy user of URP (professional). If you are not using the Pro version, I seriously suggest you upgrade. All my comments presume URP and not the more basic version.
1 - If you use MS Office, you'll want to follow this thread almost immediately. It shows and assists with integrating Office apps so that they can be viewed from within the URP window.
http://kinook.com/Forum/showthread.php?threadid=4603
2 - Play with the program.
3 - Pay particular attention to hoisting and unhoisting. If you're at all like me, you will find these very useful. You can also say thank you to me as I was one of the biggest pushers for this URP capability.
Side Note: by the way, you will find Kinook to be one of the most responsive vendors around in terms of reviewing and implementing sensibly presented suggestions.
4 - Learn to play with the Data Explorer pane, to move things around, with both keyboard and mouse.
5 - Play around with the Advanced Searches and explore some of the pre-installed searches that Kinook provides. Not only will you find them useful in their own right, but you'll also start getting greater insight into how data is and can be structured. Pay particular attention to the "not" check box, and learn about boolean searches, which are supported by URP.
6 - Bear in mind you can drag virtually any file you have on your local drive into the Data Explorer pane so that you can access it from within URP (though not every item will be displayed inside URP). But if you have project files, you can bring them all (either as full imports or as links - you need to learn the difference) into a project item inside URP. Very powerful.
This should be enough to get you started and keep you busy for a little bit.
And visit the forum frequently. Ask questions in the General Discussion area and make suggestions in the Suggestions area. I can't tell you the number of times I made a suggestion only to find that there was something similar that already existed in URP. Add to this the aforementioned Kinook responsiveness, and you have a winning formula.
Happy exploring.
- Bal