Favored "bucket" app - DEVONthink v. Keep-It vs. EagleFiler etc

Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Jul 5, 2018 at 08:49 PM

An pretty darn good info bucket is TheBrain. It is so easy to drag almost anything into the plex to save it in the database. Yes, it is best if you have a place for it—a parent “thought”—but that isn’t necessary right away, as you can drag things into an “In Box” thought and organize later. You can categorize the contents of a “Brain,” with tags (as many tags per thought as you want), and types (one type per thought). And the search function of TheBrain is surprisingly robust. With it you can root out most any information in your brain.

With a full subscription (not cheap, but not terrible if you use TheBrain extensively), you can have TheBrain on a Windows PC, Mac, and iPad, and keep them all in sync—version 9 works much better than the previous visions.

If you’re not all that familiar with TheBrain, the tutorials on this page will give you a good idea of how it works:

https://thebrain.com/support/tutorials

TheBrain isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, but I wanted to put it out there for your consideration, because it usually isn’t top of mind when people think of an information bucket.

Steve Z.