TheBrain makes v9 beta the default download

Posted by Paul Korm
Aug 9, 2017 at 05:49 PM

I have several of AppleScripts of my own making to get info back and forth from/to Tinderbox and/or DEVONthink. Unfortunately TheBrain 9 broke everything. I’ve waited for a stable release to fix things.

I use TheBrain (v8 and now v9) as a massive collector of stuff—notes, links, attachments, web pages, etc. I put stuff into it from DEVONthink databases—usually I don’t take thoughts out of TheBrain and put them into DEVONthink though. For example, if I am doing research and have collected a lot of annotation notes in DEVONthink, I might import those into TheBrain.

With Tinderbox it is usually the other direction. I take “thoughts” (i.e., notes) out of TheBrain and add them to project-related Tinderbox documents. It is very easy to search in TheBrain, make a selection, and copy or export the selection as names + text, then move them into Tinderbox.

So, to summarize. TheBrain is a massive long-term data collection point. DEVONthink is a source for notes in TheBrain. Tinderbox is a destination when I want to use a narrow selection of notes from TheBrain. (The latter is also the case when I move notes from DEVONthink into Tinderbox—I never move data from Tinderbox to DEVONthink or to TheBrain.)

Dellu wrote:
What do you guys use TheBrain for?
>How does it fare with Tinderbox and Devonthink?
> >I am not asking about the features. I just want to hear actual usage
>context where and why you could prefer it over TB.