TheBrain vs Evernote vs Personal Wiki

Posted by Amontillado
Oct 6, 2018 at 02:10 PM

I think The Brain’s best news is they’ve retired Java. Oracle is pretty silly in the licensing department, and I’m ready to agree with them Java should be priced beyond the reach of the sweaty masses, of which I’m a proud member.

It’s hard to imagine a better tool for evolving knowledge. Gather facts, but, even better, gather relationships.

These days I use DevonTHINK where I would have used The Brain. DT is very plain looking by comparison, but it does a good job. My one wish, at least at the moment, would be more agile navigation in DT.

You can reveal a tag to see all documents with a tag. Then, to see the primary group for a document, you use command-R to reveal the group. I know, picky, but all in one navigation, drilling through associations by tag and group, would be nice. I’d lose a little of my Brain envy, because nothing does navigation like The Brain. Nothing.

At least nothing I’m aware of.