Using Personal Brain without making a huge mess

Posted by Susanne
Aug 2, 2011 at 06:21 PM

Thanks to everyone who shared their ideas and tips, I have been trying out a few of these methods and am coming to agree that TheBrain is NOT the place to just dump information.

What I think it can do very well is to capture and manipulate ideas, snips, and “thoughts” very quickly. Something that I could definitely use at work - the only question is whether I am prepared to shell out that kind of money for the pro version on my own - sadly, I am leaning towards no. Because it’s cool is not a reason to spend 250$.

Because of the installation problems at work, great programs like Zoot and Surfulater and even MyBase are out of the question - so, I will probably stick with Evernote for dumping things and MyInfo for the (semi-)structured stuff.

@Quant: my beef with UR is not the .5 seconds it takes for the web capture, but the fact that one of the really cool things about UR is exactly the ability to view different kinds of information from within UR - so, when every mistaken click on a Text Item leads to the slow opening of word, then the message that the format is not recognized and I have to click “rtf” then it starts again to show me an empty page - we are no longer talking about .5 or even 1 second, but 5-10. Go through that 10 times a day and you will know what I mean.

And, also too, I LIKE crimping - hope springs eternal, a modern form of quests and all that
though in the end, I usually wind up with my steady group of Zoot, Evernote and MyInfo ;-)
Susanne