My Usage of PersonalBrain - Or how I manged to got (almost) cured from CRIMPING

Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Feb 27, 2012 at 03:42 PM

Thanks for the run down on how you use theBrain, Dominick.

I too find theBrain very useful, though I have now switched to ConnectedText for recording most of my notes. Nevertheless, theBrain remains the “nerve center” (if you’ll pardon the pun) for most of my work.

What I like especially about theBrain is how each thought (Brain-speak for a topic or item in the brain) becomes the nucleus of that subject. Create a thought for a project and you can then associate it in a number of ways with information:

1. You can create child thoughts to contain information directly related to it.
2. You can create multiple parent thoughts, if the the project requires it.
3. You can create jump thoughts for mildly related items.
4. You can attach a photograph or a screen clipping.
5. You can attach URLs. (I now attach links to the notes I am keeping on the project in ConnectedText.)
6. You can attach any number of files: spreadsheets, word processing documents, PDFs, etc.
7. You can make any folder on your computer a virtual folder, so you can keep a project folder handy.
8. You can use the calendar to set date-related information.
9. You can use the built-in associated note to keep a log for the project.
10. You can associate tags and types, e.g. to mark a project as urgent, or done.

I agree, too, with Dominick about the search feature in theBrain… It is surprisingly quick and powerful.

The combination of ConnectedText and theBrain is proving to work really well for my needs, but I would not go so far as to say it has cured me of CRIMP.

Steve Z.