Using Personal Brain without making a huge mess

Posted by Susanne
Aug 1, 2011 at 07:08 PM

Thanks for the wealth of information you shared!

I cannot use Zoot (which I do love) for the simple reason that I am prohibited by our great and wonderful IT department from installing software on my work notebook. Zoot won’t run on a stick, the brain will.
Being the CRIMPer that I am, of course I have both UltraRecall and MyInfo - UltraRecall is too slow copying Web information and can’t seem to get around the microsoft dll problems for displaying documents etc. MyInfo would normally be my first choice - yeah it is tabular and hierarchical but the tagging is one of the best I have seen - however, half of the web clips come over without the graphics and messed up formatting.

Also too, I am coming to prefer the ideal of associative thinking rather than linear thinking - this is much better supported by the brain or even Wikis, such as Connected Text. My only problem with the Wikis is that they seem to have this “real men code formats” attitude - is it really such a problem to have bold, bullets etc. as word-like functions? Do I really need to enter codes in front of and after the texts - that is soooo 1980’s and does not make me feel cool. - ok, sorry, rant over

Anyway, thanks again for sharing, I will certainly try out a few of these ideas as long as my trial is still going,

Susanne