Mind versus tree navigation; html versus rtf editing

Posted by Stephen R. Diamond
Mar 16, 2007 at 11:04 PM

Tom S. wrote:

>I was very enthusiastic about Personal
>Brain. But I soon started to butt heads with a flaw. You end up connecting an item to
>quite a number of different characteristics (context, start date, due date,
>project, personnel, etc…) When you think about it we link data with an awful lot of
>characteristics. Before you know it there a a lot of them and keeping track of them with
>all of those connecting lines can be a pain.

I’ve downloaded and even installed it, but I haven’t tried it. I feel a lot of inertia about trying global solutions. Maybe I should just decide to kind of rule them out a priori. That’s what I’ve tentatively done about Idea Mason. It just seems too unlikely that one product could approach a well-tailored and personalized collection. This is particularly true when it costs only $79.

As regards this particular deficiency in Personal Brain, isn’t the situation you describe the same as an outline where you have an excess of items at a level. The conventional solution is to introduce intervening levels, and then hoist when they get very plentiful. I understand Personal Brain has a sophisticated self-centering hoist, which I think may be an option in the upcoming version of Mind Manager also. Is there a reason why the problem you mention can’t be solved by the traditional tactics?