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TheBrain 9 reaches its beta phase
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Posted by Hugh
Oct 20, 2016 at 05:06 PM
But all credit to the developers for going ahead with such a big re-build at this stage in the history of the application.
Posted by Dominik Holenstein
Oct 29, 2016 at 09:51 AM
Just my 2 cents here:
I switched to TheBrain v9 four weeks ago and I do not regret it. It was a bit risky but I have no issues. I don’t miss the calendar to my own surprise. I am using MindManager for reminders instead.
Further, TheBrain v9 has a
- much faster and very reliable sync process
- very fast indexing system and search engine
- nice GUI which looks exactly the same on macOS and Win
The notes editor is ok and you have to get used to it. It is based on HTML and CSS and I am sure that we can create our own notes template in the near future. You can open the same brain in several tabs what is very useful.
The development process of v9 was slow at the beginning but there are updates every two to three days in the meantime. The slow process has one big advantage: TheBrain v9 is very stable now and the developers are really listening to the feedbacks of the beta testers and do fix critical issues within a few days.
The long development time proofs that the company is really keen on keeping the product alive. Such a huge technology change has a big impact and bears a big risk for the company as they have written v9 completely from scratch. This investment is very wise as TheBrain v9 is based on proven and reliable technologies (C++, HTML(5), CSS, JavaScript etc.).
All the best,
Dominik
Posted by Paul Korm
Oct 29, 2016 at 01:42 PM
There was an interesting thread in the v9 beta forum the other day between an IBM Watson Group team member and the v9 developer lead exploring the possibility of using v9 as “discovery” “concept navigator” for relationships that Watson might have found in a large corpus of documents. The discussion went offline, so it will be interesting to see if something develops on this front. v9 uses JSON as input and Watson produces JSON as output—so the possible interface is enabled by the technology upgrades that the v9 team is working on.
Now, I have no plans or the funds to put a Watson in my garage, but it interesting to see potential cooperation at this level—for me, it underscores the commitment of TheBrain to its new product direction and continued expansion of features—albeit in a direction that is mostly of interest to corporate and governmental clients. We ordinary folk might get some of the shine, too.
Posted by moritz
Oct 29, 2016 at 04:27 PM
I would rather have the developers focus on core usability issues and shipping the new release in a stable state?
Arguably, another distraction that further slows down development is the last thing TheBrain needs right now - perhaps the goal is to sell off the company to IBM and call it a day?
Paul Korm wrote:
There was an interesting thread in the v9 beta forum the other day
>between an IBM Watson Group team member and the v9 developer lead
>exploring the possibility of using v9 as “discovery” “concept navigator”
>for relationships that Watson might have found in a large corpus of
>documents.
Posted by shatteredmindofbob
Oct 29, 2016 at 09:31 PM
I more find it hard to believe that IBM doesn’t already have something like this?
I was at a tech conference in 2007 where someone demoed his side project, which was similar. His demo was feeding it raw data from Wikipedia and showing how editors were connected. It looked almost exactly like The Brain, too.
moritz wrote:
I would rather have the developers focus on core usability issues and
>shipping the new release in a stable state?
>Arguably, another distraction that further slows down development is the
>last thing TheBrain needs right now - perhaps the goal is to sell off
>the company to IBM and call it a day?
>
>Paul Korm wrote:
>There was an interesting thread in the v9 beta forum the other day
>>between an IBM Watson Group team member and the v9 developer lead
>>exploring the possibility of using v9 as “discovery” “concept
>navigator”
>>for relationships that Watson might have found in a large corpus of
>>documents.