TheBrain v. Obsidian as of May 2021

Posted by Graham Rhind
May 6, 2021 at 12:21 PM

I’m afraid The Brain 12 is forcing me in the other direction - I’m currently moving all my data out of The Brain into other programs and will cancel my subscription.

The developers have never cared about backwards compatibility, are happy to drop one useful feature for every one the introduce, and don’t care for users who don’t work the way they think we should. They dropped export to a website around version 7; it took them a long time to get a usable notes editor after they dropped the html editor around version 9; and now with version 12 I cannot have more than a few attachments to any note without the whole thing grinding to a virtual halt. If I were to continue using it I would have to run three versions (6, 11 and 12) in parallel, and, much as I admire the software, I’m getting weary of being surprised with each new release into changing procedures and moving data. And I’m paying a subscription to give myself that extra work.

Nope, enough it enough for me. I can see the attraction for most people, but for me it doesn’t work any more.

Graham