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My Usage of PersonalBrain - Or how I manged to got (almost) cured from CRIMPING
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Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Mar 1, 2012 at 07:23 PM
Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
>:-) Steve, you are featured in TheBrain’s “in the news page”:
>http://www.thebrain.com/about/news/
Thanks! I still think “GPS system for my information” is just about the best description I could come up with for TheBrain.
>Steve and Dominik, I have a question: if
>one doesn’t need web access to their ‘brains’, or to modify ‘thoughts’ from two PCs at
>the same time, is the web sync feature really necessary? Harlan Hugh has discussed
>this issue in the past here
>http://www.outlinersoftware.com/topics/viewt/1686/5 but I cannot fathom how
>file sync would not be enough in the above case (though I understand it might not be the
>fastest solution).
The web sync feature is nice because I often have my “brains”* open simultaneously on my MacBook and PC. If you were certain you were going to never have the same brain open on two machines at once—or, more specifically, not make changes independently, I think you could get by using the brain.zip feature to shuffle the same brain back and forth, which you probably could use Dropbox for. I haven’t used it too much, but I’ve been impressed with brain.zip—which is just a quick way to package your entire brain, attachments and all, into a zip file, which can then be unpackaged by another copy of TheBrain on another computer. I think this would get old if you had to do it all the time, but on occasion it shouldn’t be a big deal.
Steve Z.
*Just for the record, the thing I most dislike about TheBrain is having to use the term “brains” for my databases. It leads to silly phrases like, “Now you can have access to your brain wherever you are!”
Posted by Dominik Holenstein
Mar 1, 2012 at 09:49 PM
Alexander,
You can use the desktop version of TheBrain together with a file sync service like Wuala: http://www.wuala.com/en/
Wuala is pretty amazing and you get 2 GB online storage for free.
I am using Wuala to keep my most important folders in sync between three notebooks: Two Windows machines and a MacBook Air. I haven’t tested Wuala with TheBrain files yet but I am pretty sure that this is no problem.
Dominik
Posted by Metta
Mar 25, 2012 at 10:23 PM
You recently wrote:
“I too find theBrain very useful, though I have now switched to ConnectedText for recording most of my notes.”
...and then later….
“The web sync feature is nice because I often have my “brains”* open simultaneously on my MacBook and PC.”
In light of this, I was wondering: have you been able to put any of your ConnectedText notes/outlines directly into TheBrain (as opposed to creating a shortcut to the CT file on one of your two computers)?
The reason I ask is I’m testing TheBrain now, and would like to imbed collapsible outline files as attachments in TheBrain—and, unfortunately, when I tried doing this with outlines created in EccoPro, TheBrain damaged the files irreparably.
In light of this, I’ve been thinking instead of using ConnectedText to create my notes/outlines, but since I’ll be syncing my Brain file across the web, I will need all my notes/outlines to be located internally (within) TheBrain.
Have you attempted to do this with either notes and/or outlines created in CT? If so, have you been successful and/or do you have any hints or tips you’d want to share?
With appreciation and interest,
Metta
P.S.
I couldn’t agree with you more when you wrote:
*Just for the record, the thing I most dislike about TheBrain is having to use the term ‘brains’ for my databases. It leads to silly phrases like, ‘Now you can have access to your brain wherever you are!’”
:-D