A ramble about various note-taking applications

Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Jun 17, 2023 at 10:32 AM

TheBrain is the best place for me to organize resources for publishing projects I work on for my job. I could do this in an app like Walling, but Walling keeps my resources in the cloud, and I want to keep them on my Windows PC, but have access to them on my MacBook or online. TheBrain does that exceptionally well. The new web version is much better, and makes online access more viable—but my resources remain secure on my devices. So to me the sync option, while expensive, is well worth it. And it hasn’t let me down (knock on wood).

Amontillado wrote:
The deal-killer for me on TheBrain is that Brains are no longer stored
>in packages or directories. On the Mac they are stored in some manner in
>~/Brains. It appears on a casual glance to be sort of one database, all
>Brains. I could be wrong.
> >Syncing between two machines is either done with TheBrain’s sync service
>or by creating a zipped archive on one machine and importing it on the
>other.
> >If I can’t carry my work from one system to another without a sync
>service, I get a creepy feeling. Those plans my characters have for
>criminal activity? Yeah, I pretty much don’t want anyone to see that
>until I publish. Say what you want about reliability, an encrypted USB
>drive is more private than Dropbox.