TheBrain 9 reaches its beta phase

Posted by Paul Korm
Oct 20, 2016 at 10:24 AM

TheBrain 9 is now available as a beta:

http://www.thebrain.com/products/thebrain/thebrain9/download

I’ve been using the alpha “preview” throughout the 123 preview releases over the past several months. It’s shaping up to be a good app—brand new interface and new features. There is a document available at the page linked above describing the changes. Not yet “very good”. Just good.

My take is that the product is 75% ready. The iOS version is still primitive and has not been updated. The web version is in the same state. And there are some major features of version 8 that have been ignored so far—especially the ability to “crawl” a brain and select all related thoughts. In a very large database this is a major miss, for me. The new search and reporting features make up for this gap somewhat. Not completely.

I trust that the product will continue to evolve during the beta phase. The development team is very responsive and the alpha forum has been one of the best I’ve participated in.