Posted on 06/05/2009 by Gil Jones
I’ve talked before about PersonalBrain (www.thebrain.com). Watching a webinar on it now and my admiration grows.
Still using Evernote and the pair works well, although not integrated.
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Posted on 02/26/2009 by Gil Jones
Life was once simple: I am hungry. I have a club. I know how to use the club. There is an animal. Whack! Now I have dinner. Move forward several eons and now: I am hungry. I know how to drive a car. The car has gas in it. I want a steak. I know [...]
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Posted on 02/16/2009 by Gil Jones
This is pretty interesting. Read the whole article. Happened to bump across this contemporaneously with my experimentation with the PersonalBrain knowledge management software.
People have long envisaged the brain as being like a computer on standby, lying dormant until called upon to do a task, such as solving a Sudoku, reading a newspaper, or looking for [...]
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Posted on 02/15/2009 by Gil Jones
Evernote: A very most special super program that gets rid of yellow stickies, or better, the grease pencil notes on the screen! Evernote’s site banner:
And it really does all of that. And does it well. I am terribly torn (read “confused”) at present between Evernote which I’ve been using, and a very different paradigm presented [...]
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Posted on 02/11/2009 by Gil Jones
PersonalBrain is a fascinating program designed as a morph, or perhaps a better term is amalgamation, of a note-taking, knowledge-basing, mind-mapping, diagramming system. Succinctly, it is billed as “TheBrain – Visual Information Management.”
For an educational and truly amazing example of the system, watch the videos where James Burke is showing a mind-bending use of [...]
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