Cogito Ergo Sum. I Think Therefore I Am.

Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Jun 12, 2008 at 08:43 PM

This is an interesting article, indeed. Reading it and thinking about PersonalBrain, I realized that PB is really just a visual wiki. Or maybe I should say, that which makes PB advantageous (multiple linking that creates a web of knowledge instead of a hierarchy of data) can be replicated, perhaps even more effectively in a good wiki program. With ConnectedText, for instance, you can view a list of articles with linked articles as subarticles. So, in this view, all articles are top level articles, but they are all are also subarticles of something else (as long as they have at least one link). Of course, ConnectedText also has a diagram view, which in some ways replicates PB.

While I have yet to really adopt a wiki for information management, I remain intrigued by the idea, and the knowledge article you’ve linked to has rekindled that interest. If PB weren’t so expensive, I’d probably allow my CRIMP genes to have their way and get a license!

Steve Z.