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Posted by Paul J. Miller
Jul 14, 2018 at 08:23 PM
The biggest disappointment with TheBrain 9 is the fact that TheBrain 8 used to have a floating notes window that I could place on the second monitor and have the plex displayed full screen on the first monitor.
Then Windows 10 came along and introduced screen scaling which caused TheBrain 8 to crash when the two screens were set to a different scaling factor.
TheBrain 9 did not address this bug! instead what they did was to take away the capability to have a floating notes window.
It has been suggested on the forum that this capability should be re-introduced but from the supercilious responses of the developers I suspect it is so low down on their to-do list that it will never get done, or maybe it isn’t really on their to-do list just on the PR to-do list.
It was something I used all the time in TheBrain 8, it is sad when an update to a program actually takes away useful functions of that program.
Posted by Paul Korm
Jul 15, 2018 at 10:06 AM
I also miss this—and the ability in v8 to index a folder from the file system and have TheBrain create a thought for each of the documents in that folder.
I spoof the note-in-a-window feature by adding a plain text file to a thought then pressing the “Open” icon to display that file in TextEdit—a window that is then reposition-able to another window. TheBrain is able to find the contents of the file in searches. Not the same thing as having note text in a detached window, but better than nothing.
Paul J. Miller wrote:
The biggest disappointment with TheBrain 9 is the fact that TheBrain 8
>used to have a floating notes window that I could place on the second
>monitor and have the plex displayed full screen on the first monitor.
Posted by Paul J. Miller
Jul 15, 2018 at 10:54 AM
Paul Korm wrote:
I also miss this—and the ability in v8 to index a folder from the
>file system and have TheBrain create a thought for each of the documents
>in that folder.
>
>I spoof the note-in-a-window feature by adding a plain text file to a
>thought then pressing the “Open” icon to display that file in TextEdit
>—a window that is then reposition-able to another window. TheBrain
>is able to find the contents of the file in searches. Not the same
>thing as having note text in a detached window, but better than nothing.
I also miss ‘virtual folders’ but you can have a link to a folder in a thought, it isn’t the same but provides some functionality.
The trouble with the text file as a note in a thought is the same as their work-around to this problem on the forum (open a note in a new window). The problem is that it doesn’t update, when you switch to a new thought the note window remains the same. With a floating note window it automatically updates as you switch thought. That is why I am still using TheBrain 8.
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Aug 17, 2018 at 03:36 PM
Just a note to say that after a few years of not using it, I’ve updated my TheBrain license and keep it open in my second monitor as mentioned here https://www.outlinersoftware.com/messages/viewm/32322 I use it a bit like Goal Enforcer or Goalscape, to maintain my focus, but also to have any reference material a link away.
I find TheBrain very useful for this context-focused organisation of material. In the past I had used Tasktop, but this has become too uni-targeted to software development for my needs.
Posted by Amontillado
Aug 18, 2018 at 03:24 AM
I need to check this out. I was a very enthusiastic Brain user a few years back. Between jump thoughts and limited scope display of just what’s close by, it’s brilliant.