From the beginning, Zet Universe was envisioned as a knowledge management and analytic platform, that could be used to solve different problems, from organizing personal information, and learning new things in the spare time, to researching different topics, analyzing competitors, tracking work projects, and more.

One of the biggest values Zet Universe possesses is its ability to work in an offline mode, and work locally. It's different compared to other famous analytic platforms, such as Palantir Gotham, or Quid, and others, as these platforms typically require you to have a constant network connection and (except Palantir Gotham) require you to have a high speed connection to their cloud computing services.

Zet Universe, in contrast, allows you to have your projects data with you, residing on your computer, as you are on the go, riding on a car to your client, or getting to a new destination by train or a plane. Zet Universe contains a powerful semantic infrastructure that is capable of extracting and analyzing data from your own projects while working from your own machine.

In order to make this possible, Zet Universe requires some good hardware to work, ideally with no less than 4GB of RAM, Intel's Core processor, and SSD drive. But good hardware is only part of the equitation, as we also have to make Zet Universe's software tailored to its specific tasks.

As you, our Insiders, work with Zet Universe, we learn more and more about our current product design's strengths and weaknesses, and as you tell us more and more about your needs, we get better understanding of how we should improve the product to make it being more relevant for you.

This blog post is a story of our Scaling Up Effort, and in this series we will discuss two areas of this effort, Storage Layer and thumbnails cache.

UPDATE - grab an updated January 2016 build, 5857.11090, to restore Dropbox functionality in Zet Universe. See details below.

Hi everyone,

First of all, I'm very glad to wish you a Happy New Year! It's exactly 5 months now since we've started the program (July 13, 2015), and it was an amazing ride with you, Insiders. As people like to say, we are just getting started! As you might have noticed, we've been keeping silence since the very end of November 2015, and for a good reason. Our top priority goal was to restructure our underlying plugin platform, extract it into a separate package, and move all of our currently available plugins to our new platform.

Well, we've done that! We've also made a few improvements in this first build of 2016, build 5857.11090, though, and I can't wait to tell you about them.