Escaping from The Brain

Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Mar 27, 2013 at 06:41 PM

Graham Rhind wrote:
@Stephen Zeoli
> >You can certainly create a sitebrain from version 7 but it’s not as good
>or feature rich as from version 6. When The Brain moved to v 7 they
>marketed improved sitebrain export, but without details, and requests
>for details in the forum from many people went unanswered. I downloaded
>and tested version 7 and found that, in fact, a number of features had
>been removed. (The Brain have a policy of pushing people to use their
>hosting service because they’ll charge for it). When I posted to the
>forum my results and made it clear (politely) that I thought it was bad
>policy, my posting was removed, which is also not good policy. I
>honestly can’t remember the details of which features were removed, but
>as 95% of my use of The Brain is for website creation (e.g.
>www.dqglossary.com) I had to stick with the version that gave me the
>best results.
> >@Vincek
> >You can get data out of The Brain, it’s just not well thought through.
>ConnectedText, for example, also exports to html, but all topics are
>exported to the same directory with the html file named after the topic,
>which makes importing it into other programs easier. The Brain’s policy
>of exporting one (same named) file to a folder with the thought name
>make the whole process much harder - either they haven’t thought it
>through or its deliberate. I do sometimes find The Brain as a company a
>little sneaky and it makes me nervous, so although the product is fine
>as far as it goes, I’m always very wary about any updates or changes
>(often bugs removed in previous version reappear in later versions, and
>they often release upgrades to a new (paid) version without being
>willing to clear the bugs in earlier versions - version 6 still has
>plenty of bugs, which have been reported but will not be dealt with) so
>I don’t trust essential data to it and I would no longer recommend it to
>other people. I’m moving away from it slowly. (Slowly, mainly because of
>data lock in ...)
> >Graham