Personal Brain is magnificent for linking thoughts, ideas, concepts, relationships. Once you start creating your maps it is a snap to connect what they call “child” thoughts to a topic and include attachments such as mind maps, documents, spreadsheets, hyperlinks.
The joy of using personal brain comes in when you are needing to do rapid jumping from thought concept to thought concept. I use it for mapping new information and resources related to research I am doing, my own learning objectives, training, as well as my personal interests. I include links to documents on my hard drive – as well as embed things like mind maps right into my Personal Brain file. It is speedy and quick and the only 1 draw back for me is that it does not print out well – and yet, for it’s performance on-screen – I haven’t found anything as fun to use – or as quick.
For me – besides the fun – I can “link” concepts from varied different sources together and quickly move from one to another. This isn’t as easy to do in systems like MindManager and the like – because for the most part in those programs you want to attempt to keep each map relatively small – and you are better off just to use multiple maps. With Personal Brain – Your file can be as large as you want it – and you don’t experience “information overload” like you can in other mapping programs.
This is not for everyone, but for those who are collecting large amounts of knowledge or information who want to access it quickly – Personal Brain can be a great resource.
Personal Brain Website: The Brain
On The Brain site they have a good description of 12 ways most people use Personal Brain
In addition, the folks at The Brain also have information sessions and training sessions they run frequently for new and advanced users.
Sherman Hu - uses his brain as a Rolodex-ing.
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