TheBrain vs Evernote vs Personal Wiki

Posted by thouqht
Sep 30, 2018 at 12:15 AM

Paul Korm wrote:
When that is my goal I use TheBrain. TheBrain excels at emergent
>structure—a topic worth exploring as you prepare your approach to
>this.
> >A personal wiki might eventually surpass TheBrain’s usefulness for you.
>BUT with a personal wiki you are going to end up doing a lot of fiddling
>around the edges to get the wiki up and running the way you want, so
>that you might spend as much or more time taking care of the
>infrastructure as working on your core tasks of building connections and
>insights.

Thanks Paul, that’s useful. I definitely want to avoid having the management of my knowledge base become a major time sink. Setup, learning, and general maintenance is expected, but some systems just demand a bit too much. If you don’t mind me asking, how long have you used TheBrain and how satisfied with it are you?

I’ve also just come across Zotero which seems quite interesting and powerful in it’s own right… I know it’s used primarily by academics for research, but it looks like it might have some useful capabilities.