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1. 418 votes

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   develop a Personal Brain iPhone App

   I had posted this as an idea but was not clear that I expected an iPhone App that could Synch with "Brains in the Cloud" Thus having Cloud based Brains is a key step but did not "Complete" My original idea. An iPhone App would be able to take full advantage of the iPhone UI an... more

   I had posted this as an idea but was not clear that I expected an iPhone App that could Synch with "Brains in the Cloud" Thus having Cloud based Brains is a key step but did not "Complete" My original idea. An iPhone App would be able to take full advantage of the iPhone UI and Multi Finger controls.

   Thus the repost

   by Adrius42 | 27 comments
2. 341 votes

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   Timeline

   To have the possibility to add a new metadata to the thought that is Time. This should not be the creation date but simply a date added by the user.
   Thoughts can then be visualized on a timeline. It will be nice that links will be visible in this new view of the plex.

   May be this is a big i... more

   To have the possibility to add a new metadata to the thought that is Time. This should not be the creation date but simply a date added by the user.
   Thoughts can then be visualized on a timeline. It will be nice that links will be visible in this new view of the plex.

   May be this is a big implementation to insert in a new version. But I think will be very usefull to add a new dimension to the Brain.

   by Antonio68 | 38 comments
3. 274 votes

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   Linking brains

   Would be really cool to have a link thought to another brain.

   by jostber | 26 comments

   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.

   Harlan Hugh Admin
4. 191 votes

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   Please bring back user defined sort order in plex

   I work with medical data that has its own structure which does not lend itself to the current sorting features. If the other features of the current release were not so compelling in other areas I'd be back to good old PB3 in a flash for that feature alone. I'm begging here! ;-}

   by Middleway | 32 comments
5. 153 votes

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   node types with structured meta data

   It would be nice to be able to define types of nodes with associated properties. For example, maybe an "event" type node with properties such as "name of event", date, duration, etc.  I could also envision a "person" type node with name, birth place, birth date, etc... more

   It would be nice to be able to define types of nodes with associated properties. For example, maybe an "event" type node with properties such as "name of event", date, duration, etc.  I could also envision a "person" type node with name, birth place, birth date, etc.  Yet another example could be a "research" type node with the name of the research paper, lead author's name, university affiliation, date published, names of other collaborators.

   An example of a structured node that is buried in the text is at http://forums.thebrain.com/tool/post/thebrain/vpost?id=2733306

   I imagine that the structured data structures would be relational and this would facilitate logical data-base oriented queries beyond tagging.  For example, find all research papers published between 2001 and 2002.  Find all research papers with "cognition" in the title and "Jones" as lead author.

   Find all people born in a certain state during a certain time.

   I am thinking about the query capability to make it easier to do more interesting investigations (especially for users who may not have created the brain)

   by johnfaig | 25 comments

   Status: started

   The underlying architecture for structured data inside of Brains is now working in our development labs.

   Harlan Hugh Admin
6. 138 votes

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   Password protected Brains

   BillS
   Registered: Nov 08, 2008
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   AES encryption - Password protected brains. This would include encrypting all the little files associated with each brain.

   by thebrain | 16 comments
7. 121 votes

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   More advanced link types

   Very nicely decribed here:

   http://forums.thebrain.com/tool/post/thebrain/vpost?id=2349192
   http://forums.thebrain.com/tool/post/thebrain/vpost?id=2731734

   as well as more advanced link labels:

   http://forums.thebrain.com/tool/post/thebrain/vpost?id=2956925

   by jostber | 23 comments
8. 90 votes

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   Typed links have a direction

   Each link can have two meanings depending on in which direction you read it, upwards (parent_to, employed_at, is_part_of) or downwards (child_to, has_empoyee, consists-of). I think it would be useful if each link could have two types depending on reading direction and this could be shown by chang... more

   Each link can have two meanings depending on in which direction you read it, upwards (parent_to, employed_at, is_part_of) or downwards (child_to, has_empoyee, consists-of). I think it would be useful if each link could have two types depending on reading direction and this could be shown by changing the links to arrows. By showing the arrow-heads you could easily see which links that have been typed. I also want to filter the link types e.g. "employed_at" would give me all companies and persons.

   by Göran Edin | 13 comments
9. 89 votes

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   Personal Brain In A Cloud: create, edit & view same brain(s) from 1 or more remote computers

   Putting PB data into a cloud and enabling Personal Brain "cloud computing" would extend the power of PB for me. It would enable creation, editing and viewing, of my same brain(s) by me from remote computers with the PB program installed (e.g. home, work, field etc.)

   This would replace... more

   Putting PB data into a cloud and enabling Personal Brain "cloud computing" would extend the power of PB for me. It would enable creation, editing and viewing, of my same brain(s) by me from remote computers with the PB program installed (e.g. home, work, field etc.)

   This would replace carrying brains around on a memory stick etc.

   (Note: While Personal Brain In A Cloud might also facilitate iPhone app, PB on handhelds, collaboration/sharing and real-time collaboration, these potential benefits are secondary to my request). I have seen some of these "secondary" (for me) suggestions but not my primary suggestion already mentioned here.

   Names for this functionality -- which I envision might require a new version and might even come as a separate product release tier -- might bechosen from among the following:
   Personal Brain In A Cloud,
   Personal Brain Cloud Computing Version (Personal Brain CCV) or
   Personal Brain Remote Edition (Personal Brain RE)

   by Paul Shapiro | 5 comments
10. 75 votes

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    Allow note clipping like EverNote directly into plex

    Highlighted text from eMail, Web page, document would be clipped into and added into the plex as a special edit area or active thought.

    by ghostflier | 7 comments
11. 71 votes

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    Multiple Plex view

    Multiple Plex for the same brain.

    Use tabs to switch between different Plex.

    And a "Session Manager" to save/restore sessions.

    by Dryopithecus | 11 comments
12. 70 votes

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    Icon library

    PersonalBrain should come with a default set of icons to choose from for adding to Thoughts.

    by Shelley Hayduk | 10 comments
13. 64 votes

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    Print reports including notes of each thought

    I would like to be able to print the results of the Reports tab including the notes of each thought in the report. It would be even more useful with some basic report formatting capability, but I would be satisfied with a hard copy print or export to text file of the Reports tab.

    by Micromike | 4 comments
14. 61 votes

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    Internal (tabbed) Web Browser

    Will enable opening multiple web pages, PDF's and MS Office Documents inside Personal Brain. Avoids the need to keep swapping in and out of of external applications. Mindjet Mind Manager just implemented this in its new Version 8...

    by igoldsmid | 1 comment
15. 61 votes

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    Collaboration Features

    Allow PB users to collaborate in real-time via a shared network database. See the following forum posting for much more detail on this idea:

    http://websitetoolbox.com/tool/post/thebrain/vpost?id=3162710

    by Brad Konia | 8 comments
16. 56 votes

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    Add Tablet PC support

    As they did it in MindManager! At least, please allow drawing / writing in Notes. It will be very good for all Tablet PC users. Now we see more and more touch screens even in netbooks, Tablet features are embedded in Vista and Windows 7, so many people will appreciate such possibilities :)

    by leolit | 3 comments
17. 55 votes

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    Allow hyperlink in notes to link to thought in plex; clicking it should bring up the thought in plex

    We can now hyperlink to www or other docs, but why not into existing thoughts in the brain? This would be a very useful feature. I frequently write notes and wish I could hyperlink directly into the plex.

    by anonymous | 9 comments
18. 52 votes

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    unify, modularize, and expose the search/report/filter

    This is by far #1 limitation of the software. The search, filtering, and reporting capabilities seem too 'unfinished' or 'disjoint'. I can search nodes with words, but not report on them, I can report on some attributes, but not search on them, and I can't filter based on my searches... A powerfu... more

    This is by far #1 limitation of the software. The search, filtering, and reporting capabilities seem too 'unfinished' or 'disjoint'. I can search nodes with words, but not report on them, I can report on some attributes, but not search on them, and I can't filter based on my searches... A powerful and modular searching would tremendously enhance the usability of the software when you have thousands of nodes.
    Why not rethink the whole search paradigm and make 3 main changes:

    1) Modularize - look at search in Toodledo. Simple, yet very effective. You add additional sub-querries to make searches mode selective e.g. I could create (and SAVE) a search with these 'mini-searches' combined:

    Creation date + is greater than + date (note: drop down lists change based on context of the previous list)
    AND
    TagName + is in list + 'myTag1, myTag2'
    OR
    TagName + color is + 'red'
    AND
    ThoughtName + is like + 'some text'
    AND
    NodeType + is not + 'Book'
    AND
    LinkType + is in list + 'reads, reports to'
    AND
    CustomAttribute1 + isLessThan + '1000'

    (Custom type is a separate request but combined with this ability it would take the software light years ahead in terms of possibilities).

    2) At the very least, if implementing a GUI is too much, PLEASE expose this via a query language

    3) Finally, the search results can be presented as an outline (report), clickable breadcrumb list (search) and/or can filter (or at least hide) the non selected links and/or nodes

    If such functionality, along with custom attributes is added, I'm willing to pay a higher price for the software. Those two are also the main reason why our company is holding on purchasing many licenses of the software...

    Is there any chance that we can see this in 5.0?

    by LukeP | 11 comments
19. 51 votes

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    make linux work fully

    I changed to Linux (Ubuntu) and my brain ain't working the same as in Windows.
    No Drag and Drop
    No color changes
    No templates

    Is there a time frame to make linux fully empowered?

    by anonymous | 12 comments

    FYI, the color changing problem under Linux has been fixed for the next release. Also, templates do work if you grant PB permission to modify the contents of the program folder.

    Harlan Hugh Admin
20. 48 votes

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    Formlize Brain to support Semantic Ontology

    Currently, Brain support the ability to import OWL files. It would be nice to see Brain support the exporting on OWL files or at least RDF files. Additionally, to get product visibility to the Semantic community, incorporate support to a triple store database such as Franz Inc. open source Allegr... more

    Currently, Brain support the ability to import OWL files. It would be nice to see Brain support the exporting on OWL files or at least RDF files. Additionally, to get product visibility to the Semantic community, incorporate support to a triple store database such as Franz Inc. open source AllegroGraph or Oracle 11g. Formalizing your product for the Semantic Web could open new markets and accelerate sales

    by anonymous | 0 comments