Using Personal Brain without making a huge mess

Posted by Gary Carson
Aug 2, 2011 at 02:59 PM

Personally, I’ve never been able to find a use for Personal Brain. It slows to a crawl if you put a lot of text and images in the notes, so you can’t use it as a full-blown personal information manager, and it’s overkill for basic mind-mapping and brainstorming. I like the Brain interface a lot, but eventually mothballed the program when I realized that I was just using it to create huge webs of hyperlinks with brief attached notes. Basically, I was using it as a document and hyperlink management system, something I don’t really need. It’s more efficient to manage hyperlinks as bookmarks in your browser and use Windows Explorer (which is itself a document management system) to manage files. I do like the Brain, though. I just wish I could find a use for it.