Cogito Ergo Sum. I Think Therefore I Am.

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Posted by Al Cantley
Jun 12, 2008 at 11:58 AM

The link below has a good article re knowledge in general and covering PersonalBrain capabilities in particular. I have used PB for about 10 years and have 30,000 thoughts in my “main brain” that contains only information “nuggets” with perhaps 150,000 interconncting links; my information is accessible from numerous perspectives that far exceed the traditional hierarchial mindmapper and folder-tree systems. My other information is split principally between UR, Scrapbook, Offline Explorer Pro, Evernote, Whizfolders, plain folders, etc. with X1 Search tying it all together.

http://blog.thebrain.com/cogito-ergo-sum-i-think-therefore-i-am/

Al Cantley

Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Jun 12, 2008 at 08:43 PM

This is an interesting article, indeed. Reading it and thinking about PersonalBrain, I realized that PB is really just a visual wiki. Or maybe I should say, that which makes PB advantageous (multiple linking that creates a web of knowledge instead of a hierarchy of data) can be replicated, perhaps even more effectively in a good wiki program. With ConnectedText, for instance, you can view a list of articles with linked articles as subarticles. So, in this view, all articles are top level articles, but they are all are also subarticles of something else (as long as they have at least one link). Of course, ConnectedText also has a diagram view, which in some ways replicates PB.

While I have yet to really adopt a wiki for information management, I remain intrigued by the idea, and the knowledge article you’ve linked to has rekindled that interest. If PB weren’t so expensive, I’d probably allow my CRIMP genes to have their way and get a license!

Steve Z.

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