TheBrain as file manager?

Posted by Jorge Watanabe
Dec 16, 2013 at 08:01 PM

Dr Andus wrote:
Jorge Watanabe wrote:
>>I am thinking about buying TheBrain only to use its great file
>>management capabilities (mind mapping features, although great too,
>>aren’t necessary for my work).
> >hi Jorge, check this list (though it’s arguable):
>http://alternativeto.net/software/personal-brain/
> >Freeplane (it’s predecessor, Freemind tops the AlternativeTo list) is a
>cheap (i.e. free) alternative, in terms of being able to drag and drop
>links into a hierarchy, where you can further organise the nodes,
>annotate them, and even link them to each other.
> >Perhaps less obviously, but ConnectedText can also be used for this
>purpose, with the usual caveats (learning curve, wiki markup etc.).
>Manfred Kuehn discusses how CT can be used to emulate TheBrain
>(somewhere on his blog or on the CT forum, I can’t remember exactly).

Hi Dr Andus and thank you for your information. I will investigate Freeplane and Connected Text more deeply. By the way, Connected Text is from Brazil (my country). I’ve tested it some months ago, but then I was not seeking for a file manager, so my evaluation took a different direction. Kind regards