TheBrain 8 beta

Posted by Paul Korm
Nov 3, 2013 at 09:26 PM

I’ve upgraded my stand-alone license for TheBrain 7 to the Pro Combo product so I can take advantage of the final version of TheBrain 8 when it comes along. I was impressed by the web brain implementation—it seems more functional and solidly implemented than the last time I trailed it a few years ago. I also like that it plays well with Safari on iPad. (iPhone would be a little too tight.) I’ve invested a lot of time in my brains and have gone through a long arc of CRIMPing investigation trying out the “competition” (used loosely, since there’s really no similar product to TheBrain)—just to return to TheBrain because of its massive linking ability.

It’s interesting that TheBrain plays well with Safari on iOS because with every browser I’ve tried on Mavericks (including Safari 7) web exports with SiteBrain HTML are broken. Backgrounds display but no Thoughts.

I’ve resurrected an old project to write various clippers to grab links and content from apps I frequently use and package them up as Brain XML for imports as Thought hierarchies. I’m in the process of cleaning up my DEVONthink clipper, which was strangely broken by Mavericks AppleScript mods that seem related to sandboxing. My Evernote clipper is also dead, and will get fixed next, then on to a Mail clipper. I’ll post links to some of these as they get fixed.