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Posted by Dr Andus
Oct 30, 2018 at 10:46 PM
Alexander, thanks for sharing your experience, and Steve, many thanks for going into the trouble to find out that info for me.
It sounds like it’s time for me to trial TheBrain again, for the tenth time :)
If my crappy maths skills are not failing me, have I got it right that it would make more financial sense to go for the “service only” option, as I would get exactly the same thing as the “licence + service” version and it would take 5.67 years for the latter to break even with the former anyway [(299-180) = 119 divided by (180-159 = 21) = 5.67], by which time I imagine the “perpetual licence” might become meaningless, if for instance technology changes to the extent that the concept of a “desktop” may not even exist or I may no longer have a Windows laptop?
Just trying to make sense of the licensing options…
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Oct 31, 2018 at 05:40 AM
The service option means _no_ desktop license, i.e. accessing TheBrain only through the browser.
Posted by Dr Andus
Oct 31, 2018 at 09:54 AM
Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
>The service option means _no_ desktop license, i.e. accessing TheBrain
>only through the browser.
While I understand that “service only” doesn’t include a “perpetual license,” the following suggests that you still get to use the desktop clients during the subscription:
“If subscription expires, cloud services end and the desktop client reverts to the Free edition without Pro features.”
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Oct 31, 2018 at 04:08 PM
Right you are, I just confirmed this with TheBrain’s friendly chat service.
Posted by Dr Andus
Oct 31, 2018 at 11:09 PM
Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
Right you are, I just confirmed this with TheBrain’s friendly chat
>service.
Many thanks for checking that.
So, here’s my question to TheBrain afficionados here:
How easy or cumbersome would TheBrain be for the purpose of an online reading notes database?
I’m wondering if I could replicate some sort of personal wiki / Zettelkasten scenario, where I could enter reading notes quickly, and then connect them with each other, when there are things to connect (as in a wiki).
In a way I’m wondering to what extent TheBrain (online) could substitute for the kind of things I use ConnectedText for.
I would of course use TheBrain for other things as well, such as managing my various academic projects and organisational projects at my university and for personal organising.