Information conveniently captured in Evernote; now what?

Posted by Dr Andus
Mar 28, 2013 at 10:50 AM

Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
> But it is not very easy to do with
>collections of items, as exemplified by Graham’s efforts to escape from
>the Brain. ConnectedText may be a brilliant synthesis tool, but moving
>info into it seems a pain.

You can’t really fault CT for the fact that TheBrain doesn’t name its exported HTML files individually and that it puts them in separate folders. As long as your files are .txt, HTML, or RTF files and they are in the same folder, it is relatively straightforward to do a mass-import with CT’s import wizard. CT can even create links between the imported files automatically:
http://drandus.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/ct_import_options.png

CT’s main limitation is that it is a wiki, i.e. it operates with text documents, not folders (as opposed to UR or Zoot). Although once you have the text-based topics created/imported, it’s a matter of a simple “drag and drop” to link them to external folders and files. Having said that, it would be nice to be able to import from a variety of different folders all at the same time.