An in-depth TheBrain app-praisal !

Posted by Hugh
Aug 17, 2014 at 08:25 AM

At the suggestion of Paul Korm and Steve Z., I’ve started using TheBrain as a “graphical file store and manager”. So far, it seems to me to be excellent in that role (except for its expense). I’ve had no problem whatsoever in getting files out of it that I’ve attached to it - for example, I’ve just used it to plan and temporarily hold the files for two trips (emails, boarding passes, hotel confirmations, etc etc). What’s more, whereas before I had to search through my emails and files to check that I had everything in place, now I can see at a glance, even on an iPhone, that all is well.

What I wouldn’t do, unless I had no other choice, is use it for traditional Freeplane-style mind-mapping - the kind that Dr A contrasts with the graphical file-store type higher up this thread. It seems go me that there are better - and usually much less expensive - tools for that purpose. Most particularly in this role it won’t export easily - as OutlinerBill says. Notably, it won’t easily export versions of its mind-map into useable outliner formats such as OPML.