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TheBrain

19 August 2025

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I used TheBrain: The Ultimate Digital Memory for many years as a note-taking tool. Notes were stored in a graph with parents, child and sibling relationships. TheBrain is a product I loved and still do, but moved away because of the way internal files where synced. They were impractical to manage across Windows and Mac file systems.


Pages that link to here

  • The Brain Blog shows the benefits of mapping relationships
  • del.icio.us
  • Designing The Quantum Garden
  • Exploring the use of Topic Maps in PersonalBrain
  • How being in love with Google led to a long-term relationship
  • Implementing a tickler file in PersonalBrain
  • Maintaining my personal digital sanity
  • The Pattern Library
  • Personal knowledge management software
  • PersonalBrain revisited
  • Remarkable knowledge management software
  • TheBrain
  • thoughthorizon to personalbrain
  • Tips for managing newsgroups
  • Transplanting my Brain to Roam to Obsidian

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