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Originally posted by bkonia
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Imagine how powerful a "wiki-ized" Ultra Recall would be. It woud truly give you the best of both worlds. You'd have all your information arranged in a neatly structured hierarchy, yet at the same time, you'd be able to create unlimited associations between items and jump around randomly through the tree by linking any text to any Info Item in the Data Explorer. Other outliners, like InfoSelect, support linking, but only between nodes on the tree, not by creating hyperlinks within the actual content of the node.
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I would prefer an approach that's more consistent with UR's core approach, logical linking. A hyperlink is just an _undirected_ logical link. I suppose it could be faster if you want to link siblings without creating a parent, but the price is that you have potential elements of a hierarchy to which you can't apply much of the machinery of logical linking.
The way to set up a fully cross-indexed hierarchical database is to use multiple outline hierachies that cross-classify the data. (As in the cutting edge knowledge management approach called 'facet analysis.') Instead of hyperlinking, the poor cousin of logical linking, what UR needs is a way to send clones to multiple points in the data structure at once.
Stephen R. Diamond