I’m frequently asked what software I use for various tasks. This has prompted me to create a page on the site for My Application Toolkit. Rather than creating long lists by operating system or function I’ve used TheBrain to display the relationship between software, operating system and function dynamically, and to provide appropriate links to [...]
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There are two types of people in the world. Those who have had critical hard drive failure and those who are yet to. Backups are important. Imagine the pain of explaining to a child why there are not photos of them before they were five years old simply because you didn’t have a backup strategy [...]
The social media (twitter, facebook, LinkedIn) space can be confusing for many people in business. It is a new paradigm and picking the start point is difficult. To assist I’ve created a map of this new space as I see it. As you navigate around you’ll see the what, benefits, misconceptions, measurement and activity of [...]
It has been a month since I read The Secret to Digital Sanity by Shelley Hayduk, one of PersonalBrain’s regular authors. In the article she discusses the difference between capture tools such a PersonalBrain or Evernote and flow tools of which twitter and facebook are examples. The latter two deliver information not designed to be [...]
I’ve been using Dropbox to sync my PersonalBrain between multiple computers for a few weeks now. Dropbox copies files via the internet. As long as you follow the rule of ensuring you’re not running two copies of PB simultaneously — in other words, let the sync finish before firing up PersonalBrain— it’s robust. Keep up [...]
Google, you can have the lot. And I give it willingly. First you helped me with a simple and fast search engine. This was followed up by the wonder of Google Earth and then Google Maps. Some other bits and pieces with Feedburner and Webmaster tools, then Google Reader last week took over from Feeddemon. [...]
I run my Getting Things Done (GTD) system using PersonalBrain as my primary tool. Using Tags for contexts and a Thought Type for dates I’m easily able to model an online tickler file. Tickler files are used to remind you of things in the future — in the future so that you can forget about [...]
When you start mapping out the people you know and their relationships to you, and one another, interesting things happen. The Brain Blog’s article Everyone Is Connected. It’s Time to See the Links. which describes adding people and mind mapping social networks has several examples of the ways in which you can use PersonalBrain as [...]
TypeOf answers the question in PersonalBrain of “What is it?” and “What Thoughts are of type …”?. It is a remembering pattern that provides quick navigation to thoughts based on the type of thing they represent. Intent Your brain is be enhanced by knowing the type of a Thought. If your Thoughts have a type, [...]
