Escaping from The Brain

Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Mar 27, 2013 at 07:04 PM

Oops. Don’t know what happened with that previous reply with no actual reply in it.

But regarding export by TheBrain, it should be clarified that the application does not use a proprietary database or anything that locks your information away. The reason, I believe, that it exports a folder for each “thought” is because a thought can hold all kinds of other files as attachments: Word documents, PDFs, images, etc… So when it exports, it needs a landing place for all those attachments, and it would be utter chaos if they didn’t go into those discrete folders. I can see, however, the dilemma you have, Graham, trying to transfer so much information.

If you do not have attachments, but only notes within each thought, you might try experimenting with using the selection function and copying “text outline with notes,” and see if there is some way to make that work. You wouldn’t do it with the whole brain, but in smaller chunks. Probably not really any better, but worth a little experimentation, maybe.

Steve Z.