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240 votes
PersonalBrain for iPhone
A version of PB for iPhone that would sync with the desktop version. To be able to bring our "brain" everywhere would be really nice.
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192 votes
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
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132 votes
Linking brains
Would be really cool to have a link thought to another brain.
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.
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116 votes
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
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95 votes
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. -
90 votes
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! ;-}
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79 votes
Easy Tasks/Calendar events planned
anton3000
Registered: July 14, 2008
--------------------------------------------------------------It would be nice to be able to simply right click a thought and schedule a task/calendar event directly from the thought. In my opinion, this would be a quicker and much easier key stroke than hav... more -
58 votes
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=2731734as well as more advanced link labels:
http://forums.thebrain.com/tool/post/thebrain/vpost?id=2956925
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51 votes
Multiple Plex view
Multiple Plex for the same brain.
Use tabs to switch between different Plex.
And a "Session Manager" to save/restore sessions.
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50 votes
Icon library
PersonalBrain should come with a default set of icons to choose from for adding to Thoughts.
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45 votes
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
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44 votes
Move "mail" into brain for attached outlook messages
Dropped Outlook mails are linked (via URL) and content is copied into notes
If you then move the mail in a different Outlook folder it is no longer retrievable
It would be useful to be able to phisycally move the msg file into the brain (same effect as dropping mail msg on desktop, then draggi... moreCorrection: The above description is not accurate. If you move a message PB will still find it no matter where you move it to, unless you move it out of Outlook completely. This limitation is part of Outlook's architecture and cannot be changed.
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43 votes
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 :)
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40 votes
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
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35 votes
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...
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33 votes
Entourage integration on Mac OS
Enable linking of information from Entourage into PersonalBrain.
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33 votes
Include Notes in "Copy as Text Outline" planned
"Copy as Text Outline" is really the 'people's' export, since it takes much time and technical expertise to get anything useful out of the XML representation of exported data.
Please consider an option to add Notes to the text outline, or configure a form with checkmark toggles for wh... more
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32 votes
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
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32 votes
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.
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30 votes
Improve hierarchical (Normal) view with grandparent level
Normal View in 4.5 only shows two levels of hierarchy (parent and active thoughts), leaving the child level to hold "content" thoughts. Much of the content we mirror in PB is in fact hierarchical, and extends much deeper than two levels of "folders" (e.g. SharePoint structure... more
