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 and Multi Finger controls.
Thus the repost
TheBrain for iOS is out now worldwide. It features separate native UIs designed for iPad and iPhone. Thanks everyone for your patience.
Get it now: https://itunes.apple.com/app/thebrain-for-ios/id835873357
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Loffer commented
I would love to be able to access and use my brain anywhere, anytime!
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Phil commented
I'm not sure that an iPhone version would be as great as an iPad one, but having the ability to take really useful notes in a meeting -- and possibly share them -- would be an excellent capability.
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PW commented
Personal Brain for iPAD or iPhone will be a killer app ! Very important indispensable!
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East Silver commented
A native app for iPhone will be a killer app for all the personalbrain users who have iPhones. Just name the price, I will pay for it.
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Brad Konia commented
I agree with you 100%, Keith. I've been a PB user since the very early days. Over the years, the dominant paradigm has shifted away from desktop applications toward applications that make your data universally available. Evernote was astute enough to jump on the bandwagon early with this and consequently, they now own this space. A year ago, I was one of the people who spearheaded this discussion about developing an iPhone version of PB. At the time, I felt that if Brain Technologies devoted substantial resources to this project and quickly released a killer application, they could compete with Evernote. Unfortunately, this did not happen. This thread has dragged on for more than a year. In the interim, the iPad has become a reality, yet there is still no iOS Brain app of any type, anywhere on the horizon. Meanwhile, Evernote has continued to improve their applications on all platforms and consequently just received a $20M venture capital infusion. In addition to being a tremendous vote of confidence in Evernote, this money will undoubtedly be used to improve their product even further and they will continue to widen the gap, which I feel has already become insurmountable for Brain Technologies. Keep in mind that I have been a huge fan of Personal Brain for many years. I've paid for every upgrade that they've released including version 6. Yet each upgrade has felt more and more incremental and less and less revolutionary. So, the fact that me as a former PB fan is saying this, does not bode well for the future of this product or this company. I spent last weekend exporting my thousands of thoughts from PB and importing them all into Evernote. At this point, even if Brain Technologies released an iOS app tomorrow, I would not buy it and would not be swayed from Evernote. There are many challenges involved in making multimedia data universally available and Evernote has become the leader in this field. It took them several years of development after the initial release of their iPhone app to get it to the point where it works well enough to convince me to dump PB and migrate to Evernote. I'm sure Brain Technologies would have to go through the same learning curve and development cycle, and frankly I don't feel like waiting another 2 - 3 years to get to a place with PB where Evernote is today. I'm sorry to come across with such a negative attitude toward PB, but it's just really disappointing to me that they failed to heed the call from their many users who voted to make this the #1 feature request over the past year. Also, for anyone who says that PB's plex is superior to Evernote's tagging system, I would beg to differ. You can make the same kinds of connections that you make in the plex using tags in Evernote. Admittedly, it's a less visual presentation in Evernote, but it works just as well for most purposes and I think most people use PB more as an information and document repository, than as a mind mapping application anyway. Also, Evernote offers features such as instantaneous full-text search, including the ability to search text within images, PDF's and other types of documents. Finally, because of its API, Evernote now has a large and growing third party developer community that is interfacing it to and integrating it with all kinds of other applications, including mind-mapping applications that essentially give you the ability to store your data in Evernote yet work with it visually in other applications. Again, I'm really sorry that things turned out this way for PB, but I'm signing off now. Over and out.
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Keith Weng commented
I second the others who have mentioned switching to Evernote largely b/c of the ubiquitous access. (I really rely on their photo parsing for OCR too).
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Michael Falkov commented
Colin_Online makes the point beautifully. An iPad PersonalBrain that syncs with WebBrain would bring the concept of deeply structured user generated information networks with unlimited size and ubiquitous access to the highest level of manifest development in human history.
PersonalBrain is already a life changing tool. iBrain would be a jump in magnitude of utility roughly equivalent to going from not using any form of structured information management to using PersonalBrain.
I don't have an iPad, but I would buy one just to be able to access and develop Brains - and I would zealously advocate the benefits of this practice to anyone I meet who might be interested, just as I do now with PB.
I DO have an iPhone, and would be ecstatic to have iBrain for it as well so that I could transcend the old school mind mapping I'm currently forced to use instead of the superior Brain tending that I desire. That said, the iPad version would be significantly more useful in that I would simply use it more.
I imagine that if you made one, you would make the other, but if it had to be one, I vote for the iPad.
I'm confident that you would get the app featured at least once - presumably, geeks are in charge of selecting apps to feature > geeks love information > Brains increase the potent utility of personally interesting information > iBrain = BEST THING EVER!
If geeks were mice and Brain tending were cocaine, there would be a lot of happy, starving geeks. Of course this kind of cocaine is good for us, and being human, we can choose to eat - so bring on the next level of the info-drug revolution!
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mattia commented
Would be great to have pb on the iphone indeed, the web brain shortcut falls short of expectations
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BBA_NY commented
At minimum, fix the browser view so that the one can move click and close the side and bottom frames.
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Colin_Online commented
To be able to access my PB brains through the iPad would be the final link in my chain of pure fluidity of access to all my data, all the time, in all locations. To have PB synced through DropBox or PB's new cloud base, across all my Mac machines, would be the pinnacle of my computing ambitions. When an application like PB has been slotted into your life faultlessly, and you rely upon it to function as an individual and a business person, and then Apple give you something as unifying as the iPad, you don't end up wanting a PB iPad app, you actually need one to feel complete.
Leaving my house each day, without the ability to have access to my PB brains, is like leaving my house without my iPhone; you literally feel dis-abled in some way. iThoughts is bridging this gap for me for the moment (in a very limited way), so whatever it takes PB team, PLEASE make this a priority over further enhancements to our beautiful desktop PB application. -
charley commented
a native ipad pb app would be the must have app for the ipad. the web brain is just not sufficient for the times when you don't have access to the internet. also, i don't want my brain accessible to the general public. the ipad is the perfect personal informational tool and need to have the perfect personal information software. other software like evernote and notepad and others can do the same things in some ways as personal brain but none of these tools has the ease of use in finding that hard to remember piece of information that is needed usually in the spur of the moment. i hope the ipad version of pb can be released before the end of the year of 2010.
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MarkN commented
Absolutely would buy a native iPhone/iPad application. A given criteria for me now is the ability to use/sync applications between my iPhone and my Mac.
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George D commented
would definitely buy it
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AdvenLLC commented
I'd buy "The Brain for IPhone" today if it was available. I just downloaded iThoughts for now to use instead. I also use EverNote...but I'd prefer keeping all my data in "The Brain" and sync with my MacBook The Brain app. How about a "The Brain for IPhone app" soon?
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John P commented
I'd really like a universal iPad/ iPhone Cloud based version. I've started using Evernote because I need this functionality. I'm considering an upgrade from Mac OSX 5 Pro to 6 Pro, but I'm using it less recently because I need portability
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Tom commented
I have started using Evernote instead of PersonalBrain. I love the PersonalBrain interface and features. But being able to access this information on the go is more important than the interface and feature set.
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B Kalsbeek commented
I NEED a PersonalBrain app for iPad and iPhone!
Please let us know what is happening. Is this a possibility?
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RustySam commented
Would buy it as I think it's just the natural combination. But you really should overthink your pricing !
So far PB is way too expensive outside of the corporate environment, and I think you really should leave the niche and let regular people profit from your app -
Brainless iPad user commented
Would buy it!
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NIck LeForce commented
PB for iPad--yes! When? Can't wait!