Personal Brain information organizer
Have you seen PersonalBrain? It's a fascinating application that runs under Windows, OS X, and Linux. It lets you organize "thoughts" -- and a "thought" can be a file, a shortcut, a copy of a file, a link to a website, or its own entity -- into an unlimited network.
What makes PersonalBrain (PB) different from, say, a file manager, is that a thought can be connected to any number of other thoughts. So you can connect people to other people from the same company, but also connect the same people to other people in their family, as well as to clubs or sports teams to which they may belong.
Everything can be labeled. Everything can be tagged. Links can also be labeled, tagged, and customized in terms of thickness and color.
You can drag pictures into your Brain(s).
There is a fast and powerful search function, that can reach out beyond PB and your hard drive to find stuff on the web.
You can export Brains as functional html pages. You can zip them up and move them around. You can have enterprise-level Brains that interact with personal Brains.
I've been tracking the unfolding of this product for many years. It has now reached a point of maturity where I think it will add a lot to my personal organization toolkit.
There is nothing like it for organizing information for your book. You can actually do clustering/mindmapping within it, and link to sources and other stuff.
An amazing product. Check it out at thebrain.com
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I have been using the PersonalBrain for years and find it t be an incredible visual database product.
Brian
assistivetek.blogspot.com
I have just started using ThePersonalBrain in a project that requires organizing a huge amount of information bits that are interrelated in complex ways. I had planned to use a relational database but could not figure out a scheme that would show all the interrelations. Then I discovered TPB and found it to be a much better alternative. One difficulty is that i would like to see bigger, multi-lined text boxes on the plex. For now, I am putting the desired information in both the text boxes and attaching them as notes. This makes the data storage requirements, but at $100/terabyte, who cares.
vquest95@aol.com
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