Jerry Michalski: Lessons from 15 years using TheBrain

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Jan 25, 2014 at 04:17 PM

Joshua,

(welcome to the forum by the way, unless I’ve missed you in much earlier posts)

I expressed a similar impression here http://www.outlinersoftware.com/topics/viewt/3223/5 but I believe I stand corrected. You might want to take a look at that thread and others on TheBrain in this forum.

The original ‘plex’ user interface itself remains at the centre of things and looks relatively unchanged, but there are actually quite a few improvements around. Whether they are useful to you as a user is another thing. Also, my impression is that during TheBrain’s history quite a lot changes have been implemented ‘under the hood’, gradually supporting, among others:
- Cross-platfom compatibility (re-engineered from the ground up in Java)
- Web access and synchronisation across devices, for the same user
- Collaboration between several users http://www.thebrain.com/products/teambrain/

The latter seems to be associated with the latest version of TheBrain (8). I had checked several times while 7 was the active version, and TeamBrain was always in beta.