Does Anyone Use The Brain v7?

Posted by 22111
Aug 31, 2013 at 07:00 PM

“I tried using v6 as a PIM, but it slowed to a crawl very quickly because most of the notes contained a page or two of text and images. I got the impression that the Brain wasn’t really designed to handle more than a couple of paragraphs of text in the notes field (if that). This severely limited the Brain’s usefulness as far as I was concerned.”

I would like to second that.

I just trialled PB6 (as it was called then; in retrospective, I would need to call it TB6, though) in a very limited way and with dummy data since I was unable both to get (even parts) of my real data into it, and to get any help from the developers/vendors/forum to do so.

But even with this rather little data, just some dozen of nodes, but with a normal amount of text within each, about 3 pages of text, which is not enormous (I had copied the same data over and over again to get at least some data to play around with, then added “real” data in order to trial search and so on), both the lack of speed of the program and the size of its data stored to hdd were quite impressive, in a very negative way.

On the other hand, we know that the spatial representation of data, for example in a mind map, is of real interest to quickly recall your “mind” representation of all the relevant elements; of course, this is much more important for planning and such, than it would be for most “reference data”.

But then, this spatial representation is not persistent here (as it is in classic mind manager software) but “plastic”, in TB (ex-PB), except for “stored views” (but which are not updated afterwards?), and for referential data, I do not see the possible advantages of TB over a classic outline view (which also groups things belonging together, and which also, by cloning, allows for sub-groups of things belonging to more than one group in the systematic classification).

That’s why I kindly ask to list such advantages, if there are any, of TB. In fact, I hope I have overlooked them, and yes, it is a “beautiful” program, but as somebody said in DC, this effect quickly wears out; especially if in daily use, its practical value is not to this graphic standard that it sets I might add.

I doubt that they did anything about speed, since users have been complaining for many years now about the paucity of the “editor” of TB, and I don’t have info on their replacing it, which would probably be a condition to any speed increase here.

Btw, does anybody know which database TB is using?