Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Just found this announcement of TheBrain 8, and adding it here for your reference:

TheBrain® 8 Delivers Advanced Information Management with Powerful New Knowledge Visualization Features

TheBrain 8 offers ready-made knowledge templates, over 1500 icons and timeline view for organizing ideas and information.


TheBrain 8 is offers over 50 time management, and mind mapping features for getting things done.
TheBrain 8 is offers over 50 time management, and mind mapping features for getting things done.
TheBrain 8’s new Timeline View enables deeper insight and understanding of users’ unique work habits and thinking.
Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) November 20, 2013
TheBrain Technologies, the leading provider of dynamic visualization and knowledge management software, announced its newest release, TheBrain 8.
TheBrain software’s unique approach to information organization enables users to create and link together thousands of digital Thoughts. TheBrain software has been downloaded by over a million users and over half of the Fortune 100 organizations use TheBrain for digital brainstorming, project management, and as a complete knowledgebase to find and connect their information.
TheBrain’s marque context-driven, visual interfaceoffers users an alternative to linear note taking apps, hierarchical file/folder sharing services and conventional mind mapping, by dynamically visualizing and reorienting users’ “Thought display” each time a topic is selected. TheBrain’s no limits semantic network and linking technology enables an unlimited number of topics, links and disparate data sources to be connected and navigated.
With faster application start up, enhanced multi-threading technology and multiple user interface updates, TheBrain 8 gives users even more powerful desktop visualization. TheBrain 8 augments the software’s data management capabilities by offering over 1500 icons to amplify key ideas, new visualization options and knowledge templates with prebuilt Thought zones, Types and Tags for ready-made semantic visualization.
“TheBrain 8’s new Timeline View enables deeper insight and understanding of users’ unique work habits and thinking. You can access all relevant associative connections through an instantly available chronological entry point,” said Harlan Hugh, TheBrain Technologies’ CEO. “Additionally with TheBrain 8 pre-populated knowledge templates users can leverage our Solution Team’s best practices right out of the box and get started quickly.”
TheBrain 8 has over 50 new features and enhancements . . .

I just tried an idea -- linking MohioMap items (which are EverNotes in a graphic

SourceURL: http://forums.thebrain.com/post/evernote-integration-3016769?pid=1281650950#post1281650950
I just tried an idea -- linking MohioMap items (which are EverNotes in a graphical display) to TB -- and it worked!  Each EN in MM has a unique URL, so it can be dragged and dropped into TB.  Then, the link when clicked goes to the MM display, which shows the other notes that are linked to it.

You can, of course, copy and drop individual EN URLs from EN, into TB, but that way does not have the advantage of the graphical display of other notes linked to it.

So, this way is a visual or graphical extension of TB in an easy way for individual items, and of course, they then become searchable in TB -- at least, the title of the note does.

I tried the similar thing with CardDeck, a new way to display Evernotes, but that didn't work, because the EN cards don't have unique URLs therein.

See:  http://lifehacker.com/mohiomap-creates-a-mind-map-to-browse-your-evernote-1508827115 
and
http://mindmappingsoftwareblog.com/carddesk-visual-organizer-for-evernote/

Sunday, January 12, 2014

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'A "visual organiser" for Evernote'


A posting in the LinkedIn Evernote Users group caught my attention today -- a new program in beta, developed by  ,Solution Architect, called "CardDesk."  Ashley describes his program as
". . . simply my attempt to wed my love of Evernote with the highly visual, non-linear and creative benefits of index cards. Using the index card analogy, CardDesk allows you to access you[r] Evernote notes and arrange them as “Cards” on one or more “Desktops”. Cards can be moved, resized, stacked and colour-coded. Cards can contain images and links to documents and web pages. They can also be edited using Evernote’s web interface. "

Another approach that I found some while ago is Miohiomap -- "A Visual Memory for Evernote"; the Evernote App Center describes it as:

"Mohiomap is a web application for visualizing, navigating, and exploring your Evernote content. Notes, notebooks, and tags are presented in an interactive graph, similar to a mind map. Mohiomap allows you to see your notes and discover relationships across all the different elements in your Evernote account. Mohiomap also features filtering and search functions to identify the content most relevant to you.
Mohiomap's intuitive and easy-to-use visual display offers a unique and immersive experience for browsing your Evernote content. Simply sign up for free, connect your Evernote account, and start exploring!"  http://appcenter.evernote.com/app/mohiomap/web-apps


 I keep hunting for some way to bring all my information sources together (see a diagram at http://myknowledgenetwork.blogspot.com/ )

I wish I could find some desktop (PC) application that would be a popup search for all my various stores of information. I searched again today for such, and didn't find it -- have Copernic Desktop, but it doesn't appear to search EN -- several questions unanswered on their blog.

Friday, October 25, 2013

My Knowledge Network

I have been a collector of information (my "big data") for more than five decades.  The computer has been a great help; in earlier days I had to rely on 3x5 cards and cardboard file folders.  Now, it is easy to store away all kinds of information.  But, how do I find it again, and even more, how do I get a bird's eye, or higher, view of it all?

Years ago, I found the Personal Brain (now simply called TheBrain) software, and I have been steadily littering it with "thoughts" that can be linked to each other, just like in my human brain. But much still resides outside of this personal computer brain, in places like Evernote, OneNote, PaperPort, hard drive files, Outlook, paper files, and so many more.

Others like me have also been "seeking a magic tool for personal productivity" as the New York Times headlined a story about a year ago.  The announcement by David Allen, creator of the phrase, GTD -- "Getting Things Done" -- and a company of innovative people at Intentional Software described their undertaking a project to solve this dilemma. http://www.intentsoft.com/overview/gtd/ . I thought, GREAT!  But today when I was reminded of this project, my searching on the company website, on the CEO's Twitter postings, https://twitter.com/ec_anderson , and on Google, I could find no new news about the project, nor that anything was available to salve my itch.  (GTD® and Getting Things Done® are registered trademarks of the David Allen Company.)

TheBrain has just released a new beta, TheBrain 8, http://www.thebrain.com/products/thebrain/thebrain-8 , which I quickly downloaded to see what new goodies it contained.  There are some, but nothing to improve the integration problem that I and others have grappled with.  So, I posted another appeal on TheBrain forum.  I wanted to share a Skitch diagram of My Information Network that I had made a couple of months ago, and found that I needed to be able to link to an URL to do so.  As a result, I've started this blog; we'll see where it goes.