using the brain as front end

Posted by Ian Goldsmid
May 21, 2007 at 09:00 PM

Using Personal Brian as a front end to UltraRecall, or OneNote 2007, or Whizfolders is simple… Each of these 3 ‘notes’ applications provides the means to copy URL’s to their content. In the case of UR, called the Item Command Line, with On eNote & WF, you can also copy URL’s to content within ‘Items’ - such as paragraph headers, specific words or phrases in the Item/Note.

So once you have a URL from one of these apps copied to the clipboard, you can then just paste it into the url field in Personal Brian. Then, PB treats them as clickable links, just like web urls, and you can thus navigate to that specific content in UR, or OneNote, or Whizfolders (or any other application that provides special windows url protocols - so that would include ConnectedText too)...

Personal Brain 4 is still in beta - currently V4.0.5.0. I have been using it since the first beta was released. They spent, and still spend a great deal of time making the graphical capability better and better, as that is their ‘sweet spot’. New features though are developing thick and fast - and they seem committed to a massive amount of future development. I think this time (it wasn’t the case with earlier versions) - that they are going to really keep evolving its capabilities, and make it into a true ‘killer app’. I believe its now possible for anyone to register to download the beta…

The only other app of its kind that I am waiting for with baited breath is Tinderbox for Windows, from Eastgate systems - which is supposed to be released in beta in July.