Linking brains
Would be really cool to have a link thought to another brain.
Links to thoughts in Brains via a URL format are included in Version 6, enabling this, plus the ability to link to thoughts from notes and on Windows also from other programs.
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Tommie N. Carter, Jr., MBA commented
Hi all,
Since this feature is now working. Can everyone shift your votes to Search across brains?
Anyone still having an issue should follow these steps:
1. Open a brain containing your target thought
2. Right Click on the thought you want to copy
3. Select Copy Thought URL
4. Close that brain and open another one
5. Create a thought and give it any name you want
6. Right click the new thought and select Paste Web LinkThanks,
PS - Don't forget to shift votes so that the company can hear the user's voices about changing priorities. -
Posicionamiento commented
This feature does not work properly:
Create a shortcut on desktop -> Launch it.
What happens?. Nothing, really. PB tries to open a second instance but it does not display the thought. Nothing.
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Wladjmir commented
is this capability on the way also for mac?
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Adrian Bashford commented
Should we start another request specifically for Mac/Linux since this one is 'completed'?
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Spacenexus commented
Stunning! A great feature kick off and nicely implemented. Great stuff guys. (Rooting for Mac/Linux capability bringing up the rear!)
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Quorcork commented
Linking to thoughts from external applications - only for Windoze? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooo!!!! :-(
Other users (MacOS / Linux) need this, too! -
Spacenexus commented
A great example of linking would be that of MS Project. You can link a subproject into the main project and just open the main project next time. Then all the links and changes automatically sync with the subproject in the separate file but appear within the timeline of the main project. Would be a brilliant way to link brains to get the best of all worlds.
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Thierry Cailleau commented
Linking to another brain would be useless to me unless the search enigine would allow to search that other linked brain as well.
If you can search those linked brains but leave the option not to search in linked brains, then this would be a great feature! -
Colin Wirt commented
From my perspective a URI Protocol for PersonalBrain has been extremely important for me for some time ;)
The lack of this feature is the main reason I don't use PersonalBrain as the primary store for ticket management information. Unfortunately reference information stored in thoughts are not as easily accessible as info stored in an app that does use a URI Protocol like OneNote for example.
As a software developer myself, I've found that one of the key features I've added to my own range of Knowledge and Task Management apps has been a URI protocol.
(I get the feeling this is not the place to get really detailed, but hey, I'll post to the forum too)
An example of this initial implementation in PersonalBrain could include at least this feature set:
-- brain:open?guid={thought guid}
- opens a helper
- searches the index of any currently open .brain files for the guid
- [if none are open or not found] searches indexes of all found .brain files for the specified guid
- [if found] opens personalbrain and activates the thought
-- brain:search?q=Inspiring+Quotes
- if one brain file is currently open, searches that brain
- populates the instant activation search with the search string
- if one match is found, activates the thought
-- brain:search?b=My%20First%20Brain.brain&q=Inspiring+Quotes
- searches for "My First Brain.brain" brain file
- searches for string "Inspiring Quotes", if one match is found, activate the thought, if multiple matches are found show search results.
-- brain:search?b=My%20First%20Brain.brain&t=Discuss+With+Jane
- checks if "My First Brain.brain" is currently loaded
- [if not] searches for "My First Brain.brain" brain file
- searches for the Tag "Discuss With Jane"
- loads thoughts linked to the Tag in the Plex -
Karl Hebenstreit commented
I'm taking this to an even more general level, and just started a new .brain with one of its primary purposes being to help me manage all of my .brain files. Developing this further will identify many capabilities of PersonalBrain which need to become more .brain-specific, such as custom search engines, and possibly federated tags?
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Sean D commented
This is what would be possible if we had external URIs to thoughts:
Imagine this...
You read an article about pizza in the NYTimes Mazagine. You think:
"Ok, I'm writing a note about that article about Naked Pizza, and in it they mention 'probiotics.' I'm thinking, 'what the heck is a probiotic?' but by the time I finish typing the word, it links back to another thought in my brain. I remember, 'oh, that's right, I read an article last month about that. Let me go check my notes real quick and refresh.'"This is now my #1 feature request - if URIs to thoughts become a reality, then all of us who are using external notes software will finally have our notes integrated into our brain!!!
But URIs would actually make quite a few feature requests a reality, including http://thebrain.uservoice.com/pages/4597-personalbrain/suggestions/232421-allow-hyperlink-in-notes-to-link-to-thought-in-plex-clicking-it-should-bring-up-the-thought-in-plex
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Sean D commented
Linking to thoughts from brains, notes, and other apps is a home run!! I can think of so many uses for this :)
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b4l4nc3r commented
I support this idea too, but can't afford to spend my votes on it. Won't mind to spend cash though :D
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jostber commented
Was it possible to link brains in V3 too??
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Karl Hebenstreit commented
To really do this right, we need to consider what Ted Nelson calls transclusion. The Compendium open-source software has this capability, so it's actually the same node in multiple dialogue maps. Would there be a way to do this, at the GUID level? Are GUIDs currently unique to each .brain file?
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John Pemberton-Bates commented
Back in the old days V2 I think one could link from one brain thought to another brain and a specific thought in that brain. (so would be good to have this capability back). Also one could have multiple Brains open (in small windows) and link between them.
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jostber commented
Will this be a feature in the upcoming PB 5.1?
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SamCox commented
Running Windows XP PB 5.0.2.8, I frequently have more than one brain open at once. You can't do it from within PB itself, but multiple brains can be opened from Windows Explorer.
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jostber commented
It would also be great then if several different brains could be open at the same time, so that you don't have to close one brain to open another.
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dyslucksia commented
Admin response: "Links to thoughts in Brains via a URI format would allow this, plus the ability to link to thoughts from notes and from other programs." Is that a yes, a no or a maybe?