TheBrain as file manager?

Posted by Jorge Watanabe
Dec 16, 2013 at 08:13 PM

Jon Polish wrote:
I agree that The Brain is quite useful in this regard, but for what you
>want (and your budget), I would suggest Ultra Recall. It indexes your
>files and has a pretty powerful search tool. You can link easily enough.
>It can be set up to display meta data on which you can search. Hoisting
>is there to help navigation without clutter. You can also make notes for
>your files. Think of UR as The Brain without the attractive visual.
> >Jon

Hi Jon, and thank you. In fact, I own Ultra Recall 5. I agree that it is useful, and I really tried to use it as file manager. But it does not read files and folders directly from OS; instead, it is necessary to import them. This process is very slow in my case (hours to import or update a single directory). So I quit. TheBrain is very fast in this task. I don’t know the technical details, but it seems to read files and folders directly in “real time”, smoothly integrating itself to OS and extending Windows capabilities with great features. It is not perfect for my needs, but it is the nearest I’ve ever found.