My Usage of PersonalBrain - Or how I manged to got (almost) cured from CRIMPING

Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Mar 1, 2012 at 07:23 PM

Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
>:-) Steve, you are featured in TheBrain’s “in the news page”:
>http://www.thebrain.com/about/news/

Thanks! I still think “GPS system for my information” is just about the best description I could come up with for TheBrain.

>Steve and Dominik, I have a question: if
>one doesn’t need web access to their ‘brains’, or to modify ‘thoughts’ from two PCs at
>the same time, is the web sync feature really necessary? Harlan Hugh has discussed
>this issue in the past here
>http://www.outlinersoftware.com/topics/viewt/1686/5 but I cannot fathom how
>file sync would not be enough in the above case (though I understand it might not be the
>fastest solution).

The web sync feature is nice because I often have my “brains”* open simultaneously on my MacBook and PC. If you were certain you were going to never have the same brain open on two machines at once—or, more specifically, not make changes independently, I think you could get by using the brain.zip feature to shuffle the same brain back and forth, which you probably could use Dropbox for. I haven’t used it too much, but I’ve been impressed with brain.zip—which is just a quick way to package your entire brain, attachments and all, into a zip file, which can then be unpackaged by another copy of TheBrain on another computer. I think this would get old if you had to do it all the time, but on occasion it shouldn’t be a big deal.

Steve Z.

*Just for the record, the thing I most dislike about TheBrain is having to use the term “brains” for my databases. It leads to silly phrases like, “Now you can have access to your brain wherever you are!”