![]() ![]() So I guess I need to revisit both applications. I also don’t know if The Brain is actually more useful than I thought it was in my brief encounter with it. TB 6 is out now and its implications and reach are things I still don’t understand. TB was much better about allowing me to just put information onto the screen without imposing structure. I had tried it in the past and found that it was good in a kind of shallow way => linking ideas to other ideas, but not so good in looking back and trying to figure out the big picture. I found this when I was wondering whether I should re-explore The Brain as an analytic tool. If the long-promised Windows version is ever released, however, Tinderbox would be the application I’d select because of its incredible versatility.įortunately, I don’t have to choose one or the other, and both applications can grace my MacBook. If I had to choose just one, I would probably take PersonalBrain because it is cross platform. You could make due very well with either of these applications, or, in fact, with any of the dozens of other options available.įor me, at least, Tinderbox and PersonalBrain are compatible and serve entirely different functions. So, to get back to the original question, why would anyone need both Tinderbox and PersonalBrain? No one does. It’s funny, as I write about both these applications, I find myself getting revved up over each of them for their own strengths. CommonPlace Book database in three windows in Tinderbox, showing Outline, Map and Chart views There’s nothing wrong with that, but it may not be as smooth a work flow. To see more of you information you need to switch to Chart or Outline views. The Map View in Tinderbox restricts you to one level of detail at a time. You can even view your data in a quasi outline. That is, you can scale it to see whatever level of complexity you need. The Plex in PersonalBrain is, however, more pliable than any of the views in Tinderbox. That is, it can serve as an information manager, a structured database, a mindmapper, an outliner, a flow charter, a blog manager, a project manager, and probably many more that I haven’t thought of. Tinderbox is the more complete application. Neither Tinderbox nor PersonalBrain excels for composing information within their limited editors, although both are serviceable, with Tinderbox having a slight edge. ![]() database fields), so it would be much more useful for structured information than PersonalBrain. It also has a the ability to add key attributes (i.e. The map view is especially powerful for this purpose. In PersonalBrain it is easier to get an overview of your information by expanding the Plex view. That file can be stored within PB or elsewhere on you computer. It feels much more integrated with the web and other applications.įor example, you can open and launch a new file in any of a number of other pieces of software from within PersonalBrain. Most functions feel streamlined, especially creating relationships among my notes. PersonalBrain, on the other hand, is pretty easy to use. It appears to be a simpler, easier to use version of Tinderbox, although I haven’t played around with it enough to determine if it succeeds in this aspiration. *In a seeming concession to this point, Eastgate has released the beta version of a new “little brother” application to Tinderbox called Twig. I find it too difficult to extract data, and even putting information in can be cumbersome in certain instances.* ![]() In fact, it is too complex for me to make it my go-to, hold-everything application. Tinderbox is a much more complex tool - at least from my point of view as a user. These two applications are actually more complementary than they might first appear. Why on earth would anyone need both?įorget for a moment that I’m basically crazy and have an illness we call Compulsive Reactive Information Manager Purchasing (or CRIMP for short) at outlinersoftware web site. Two relatively costly applications that do similar things. ![]()
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