![]() That would be a huge leap forward in digital asset management for me! Perhaps someone more adept than I has managed to integrate them. I'll anticipate the natural question here: Have I found a way to integrate DevonThink with TheBrain? One can get started with DevonThink fairly quickly, and then get fancier and fancier as the comfort level increases. But I have found the app to be relatively easy to use. I know that it also has a reputation for having a steep learning curve. I use it to maintain thousands of scholarly articles, and thousands of personal notes. It stores, finds, and correlates vast stores of information rather effortlessly. On the other hand, I use DevonThink on my Mac religiously. I found a couple of out-dated videos, and many iterations of advice that were variations of, "The program is what you make of it." I bought Tinderbox impulsively when it was discounted a couple years back. I really do hope that v9 is leading us somewhere… The current TheBrain software is not (assuming my memory is anywhere near reliable) doing anything radically different - from an information management perspective - than 'ol PersonalBrain was doing back in 2004. The ability to attach arbitrary metadata to a thought via its type would be a good start. Like you I end up constantly fiddling with things, and never quite able to make peace with them.īut ideas like agents, rules, and prototypes are exactly the kinds of things I think Brain needs to get to the next level. I really like the vision of Tinderbox and was lucky to chat with Mark Bernstein about hypertext back when blogging was a thing and I was thinking about shifting from Radio Userland to Tinderbox. Yeah I've been doing this dance since about 2004. Having said all this, it's prototypes, agents and rules are extremely powerful and would probably do a lot of what you are looking to do based on some of the posts here. The learning curve is steep, but the power it provides you to surface, organize and represent notes is unparalleled. I've gotten very close to the end of the fiddle factor, and to where it starts to function for me, but then I find something where I can't view it the way I need to and get frustrated. The way I want it set up takes a lot of work and fiddling and ends up being more work that it's worth (for me) and it's not scaleable without a huge amount of work arranging things, or losing items in deep outline hierarchies.īasically, I end up fiddling more than I do working. I could do this, but never quite get there because Notes are a pain for me to get formatted in a manner that I like and is consistent. I use it off and on, but it's never quite sunk in for me. Tinderbox has gotten significantly better since it's 2014 iteration. PersonalBrain 4.3 Experimental Release Archive ![]() TheBrain for iOS 1.0 Beta - Password required ![]()
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