An in-depth TheBrain app-praisal !

Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Jul 12, 2014 at 06:28 PM

I’ve never had any trouble with the Plex relating to notes, but that’s because I never put a lot of information into a notes field. I don’t think TheBrain is intended for that use… i.e. using the notes field to store lots of information, the way you would Evernote or DevonThink. I think if you try to use it that way, even with the latest version, you will continue to be disappointed.

This isn’t to say the notes field isn’t useful. It is handy for short notes or logging times and dates.

You could put long documents into TheBrain as Word files or RTFs. If they are embedded in TheBrain, the search function can find text inside them fairly easily.

Anyway, this is my experience with the app.

Gary Carson wrote:
Does the latest version of the Brain handle notes any better than the
>older versions? Specifically, does the plex still slow to a crawl when
>you have a lot of information in the note fields?
> >I gave up on the Brain because it wasn’t scalable and the note field was
>so flaky. Until the scalability problem is fixed, I don’t see how the
>program could be used as a real information manager.