I ran into a reference to "The Brain" on this web site. It is an amazing piece of software! As a fan of MaxThink and Thoughtline, I'm always interested in new knowledge software.

Has anyone else tried The Brain (www.thebrain.com)? Any comments?

Brent

I have looked at The Brain a number of times. I know of great applications for it -- if only it had the option of adding a direction to a link. Regrettably, its developer is adamantly opposed to such.

Could one of you help me with two questions:

(a) Which outliner is currently considered the best for general purpose outlining (PC Outline, Action Outline, others)?

(b) How do you do a search on this site?

Thanks,
Mike Stratil

Hi Brent,

I have seen TheBrain two years ago for the first time and am still impressed. The funny thing is that I still don't use it. I think I should... You know I'm a core-user of MaxThink. Perhaps thats one reason why I still hesitate: Neil promises a graphical interface in MaxThink and a Windows version of Houdini.

The problem with software is that you have to dig in, explore and find your own way in using it (regularly).
Another thing is that I have to capture my 'worldview'in a personal classification scheme in which I want to manage my bookmarks/favourites, directories/files, outlook folders etc. Then I can specify which software I use for which purpose. (MaxThink remains my multipurpose outliner).

Other software I keep an eye on is: Mindmanager, Correlate and Axon.
In general the software mentioned here is quite complementary to eachother. I think Correlate and TheBrain are most overlapping, while the Interface of TheBrain is unique.

Know what? I'll register TheBrain!

Ernest.

Whoops, I got a little carried away playing with this cool textarea control.

On-topic, I never found much use for The Brain. I could feed it nodes all day, but I had a hard time getting anything useful out. Much like the brain I already have...

Eliot