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Posted by Graham Rhind
Jun 15, 2008 at 03:47 PM
Christophe wrote:
>I would say,
>as a conclusion, that TheBrain does (almost) exactly what the developers says : it
>create another brain, as complex and as confused that the one we already have. If I use
>an Information Management software it’s precisely to (try to) organize the muddle I
>use as a brain !
Good point! The advantage I find to The Brain, though, is that one can create an unlimited number of brains to make sense of our own single brain. If only I could do that with the brain in my head ....
Graham
Posted by Dominik Holenstein
Jun 23, 2008 at 11:23 AM
I have used PB from v1.73 to v3.0 and then stopped and switched over to ADM because the company did not put much priority on PersonalBrain then. This was around 2002. Then after the death of ADM in 2005 switched over to Ultra Recall.
After testing PersonalBrain v4.1 and the much better v4.5 (still in beta) I am starting to use PersonalBrain more and more again. The company (TheBrain) is supporting the application heavily and has an own user forum. Development cycle has increased a lot and many features I have requested for v3 are now available in v4.X (export to SiteBrain, claendar and reminders, types of thoughts etc., notes are stored as HTML instead of RTF etc.).
The power of PersnalBrain increases the more you add to it. This takes time, but it is worth.
Dominik
Posted by Al Cantley
Jun 23, 2008 at 12:58 PM
I have used PB for 10 years now and hate to think of not having it as a repository of my KEY information. Like Dominik said the more information it contains the more useful it is. I have approximately 30,000 thoughts with around 120,000 links between them in my main database. The multiple parents and fine-grained searching capabilities and other linking make finding critical data very efficient. New connections seem to “magically” appear at times because of the interconnectedness of the information. Highly recommended…
Al
Posted by Jack Crawford
Jun 24, 2008 at 03:12 AM
Hi Al
I was interested in your reply, especially the volume of info bits you have stored in PB.
Would you mind giving us a bit more detail about how you use PB?
TIA
Jack
Posted by Cassius
Jun 24, 2008 at 06:00 AM
Many years ago, I suggested that the Brain and Personal Brain include an option of adding an arrowhead(=direction) to the links. This was for the purpose of creating an organization web for a large organization (40,000+ employees). The idea was that any part of the organization could place itself at the center of the universe (=Brain) and see how it related to other parts of the organization.
At the time the company was not interested in adding this feature (and so lost a BIG sale). Question: Does Personal Brain now have this feature?
Thanks!
-c