TheBrain assumes that the objective is to collect and store notes. Any proper notes app will do a better job at this, such as OneNote, Google Docs, Apple Notes or Evernote to reference some of the most relevant - and there are many, many others. Notes have improved recently but you continue to miss important functionality. All that is provided to address these questions falls short in some shape or form. It's not possible to reorganize the view placing the nodes where we want, the way we want, with different font sizes, colours, images.
It's not possible to create links between different nodes without them rearranging the view. We can't have notes visible on the map, linking to a node. It's not possible to collapse parts of the map and have others open and to keep that setting while needed. We can't have images sized according to our needs on the canvas (plex) to help with visual thinking - those tiny icons are not enough. It's not possible to zoom out and navigate the map freely. It's a mind mapping tool that doesn't deliver the basics of any tool you can find in the market at a low price - xMind, Mindmeister, Ayoa, Mindmup and many others.
TheBrain continues to be able to do a lot without being good enough at anything: That has been frustrating, to say the least!
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But instead of evolving the software adding new capabilities and becoming better at something, you just kept fixing the backend over and over again, making it easier to scale and develop but with few relevant user facing features. I believed since I first tried the Personal Brain in 2011 that you were very close to having an amazing knowledge management platform with unique capabilities (not anymore - more on that later). I will also provide solution ideas, not just complaints. stay with me until the end of the long rant.
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Hope this license payment and a true wish to take you out of your comfort zone to help TheBrain move forward will be enough for this message to be taken seriously. It will be end of the line for me (and I guess others), if it doesn't happen soon. It was because, after 9 years - yes NINE YEARS with several serious attempts to extract value from TheBrain with very mild results, I wanted to give the product and team one last chance to deliver according to expectations. It wasn't because I really needed the product and couldn't find a better alternative. I recently subscribed to a one year TheBrain license. This is a message to the team behind TheBrain and its user base.
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In other words, for optimal data security, I had hoped to be able to maintain an incremental series of backups (from several recent dates) in the cloud - as a backup to the backup files on my hard drive.PersonalBrain 4.3 Experimental Release Archive incremental backups (brz files) on my hard drive are still vulnerable to a hard drive crash. the webbrain only preserves the most recent/current version I guess I was hoping to have some way of creating incremental backups somewhere in the cloud since: However, you did indirectly answer my question by explaining that it is NOT sufficient simply to copy brains in their default location to create a duplicate backup. (I agree that would be quite confusing to manage.) Regarding my second (somewhat confusing) question above, I wasn't proposing new GUIDs. I LOVE the idea of having an automated local backup. Thanks again, Matt, for your helpful feedback. The third option for backup of course is to enable automatic syncing of your Brains - making them accessible for syncing via the cloud to your other devices, including mobile. They are the equivalent of V8's BrainZip feature, but more reliable and much faster to both import and export. The first is the user level (ex: U01), next is the brains level (ex:B01), then the thought/link folder level (what is opened when you select the "Open Thought/Link Folder" command).īrain Archives allow you to snapshot a particular brain at a point in time in case you want to be able to go back to it in the future or share it via email/USB stick/etc. The structure of this folder for those that are interested: There are three primary levels inside of the Brains folder. Backing up this folder guarantees that all of your brains data is backed up. You can see where this directory is under Preferences > System. V9 on the other hand, does keep all brains in a single directory.
PersonalBrain 4.3 Experimental Release ArchiveĪctually, in V8, brains could be located in many different places - there was no way to know where all your brains were as it was not centrally controlled.
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