An in-depth TheBrain app-praisal !

Posted by Dr Andus
Jul 12, 2014 at 12:05 AM

Stephen Zeoli wrote:
>- With a wiki, links exist with ideas within notes—that is, you parse
>the links to relate to specific ideas within the note, where as links in
>TheBrain are generally made among the notes themselves

Oh, I see, so these are higher level document-to-document connections then. Thanks for pointing that out. As you say, a standard wiki link is between a bit of text within a document to either the entirety of another document or to a particular section or anchor within it.

@donleone

Thanks for the detailed explanation.

donleone wrote:
>i am actually starting to get tired of all these “lines” criss-crossing
>all over the place so much,
>that is un-avoidable if you got (and love to make) a lot of
>side-connections

This reminds me of a recent feature in ConnectedText’s Navigator tool (which is for visualising the network of links as an outline) that allows you to remove specific individual nodes (representing documents) one-by-one manually, exactly to ‘thin’ the outline, so it becomes more easily analysable for a given purpose (by reducing ‘noise’).