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  1. I have found that most users of the sitebrain do not realise that the white box in the bottom left of the plex is for searching. Even if they suspect this and try it out, it sometimes takes so long for search results to appear that they may well decide it is not for searching. Labelling it SEARCH would therefore be helpful.

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  2. If the purpose of SiteBrain is sharing the structure of one's Brain that can be intuitively navigated, it is reasonable to enable tags for links and tags/icons for thoughts. As Brains grow and become more complex, these features make life much easier for the users but are indispensable for those using SiteBrains. Specifically, I'm thinking of a sharing some complex ideas via SiteBrain on the Internet with students who do not need to be familiar with PersonalBrain itself.

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  3. Some versions ago (was it in PB3?) I think I remember being able to do something to stretch the plex vertically, i.e., increasing the gap between parent, active thought and children. Did that disappear in the mists of time? If so, it should be re-implemented. It doesn't seem to me to require major recoding, but then I've just consumed a fair bit of alcohol, and the world seems a much simpler place.

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  4. I use personalbrain for collect and manage all my files.
    I can search fast within files and folders names embedded in personalbrain folders

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  5. It would be very helpful, especially when adding lots of new thoughts, to be able to highlight multiple thoughts, and automatically add characteristics (thought type, link type, color, etc.) to all at the same time. If this capability exists, I sure can't find it.

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    Hold down the control key and click the thoughts to select them. You can also select by control-clicking a gate, using search, using a report, or using the crawl function. Once you have a selection, right-click to set the thought type.

    Currently you can’t set link type or color this way – if you’d like to be able to do that, vote for this. :)

  6. Add a Read only attribute for thoughts
    Attachments and notes should be read only too
    Value:
    for serious users of PB some of the content is simply too important to allow accidental deletion, especially if it's business info

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  7. It would very nice to remember one or more positions of each thought attached to the selected thought in outline view.

    It could be automatic : when I select another thought, the last positions of all the thoughts are automatically displayed

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  8. "outline" view is perfect to see my brain on a screen with "heuristic" way.

    It would very great to be able to see more than one rank of children (by choosing to show between 1 rank to infinite rank for example)

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  9. What is a note ? it's a tought...

    it would be very appreciable if we could transform a note to a child of the parent "thought".... (with a push button for example)

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  10. It would be very nice to have a "switch button" in the outline view to be able to :
    ---> see all chlidren of the selected thought ( and not only rank 2)
    ---> have a very simple display style (to have more information on the screen

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  11. --> link to complete e-mail
    --> link to attached file in e-mail

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  12. It would be good to have a left column of customizable paths / folders in the load / save dialogue like in MS Word 2007. This would save a lot of time linking files form most used folders (like incoming invoices etc.) into PB.

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  13. When using "The Brain" for project planning, It would be nice to convert the database into a Gantt chart or something similar; maybe be able to import the plex into Microsoft Project.

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  14. Like the option for expanded views.

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  15. Add folding/unfolding of children by thought. "Folding" is a standard feature in all good code/text editors because of its usefulness. This very useful feature is available in Freemind and Inspiration. Can have a small button on each thought to show or hide its children. Might have option so plex focus doesn't change when this button is hit allowing selective unfolding of thoughts. More selective then "Expanding"

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    thebrain responded

    This is already available in the Outline view of version 5. If you mean something different, please explain. Thanks.

  16. It will be nice to have the possibility to use the asterix not only at the end of the searched text but also at the beginning.
    For example: I can search with air* for airplane, aircraft, etc but if I search for *plane this does not give me any result.

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  17. It would be very nice if there was an option in Preferences that allows users to choose whether "active thought name" or "brain name" to be displayed in title bar.

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  18. A proffesional using PB PRO
    want to secure al the effort putting information in a brain and need to have this information also in a other format like excel.

    Export function to excel

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  19. Data sinkholes like this Forum are exactly what Brain handles best. It's a long list of random items, most of which are arbitrarily hidden. The early, visible items perpetuate their prominence by crowding out the others.

    Brain users outgrew systems like this for their own fact-gathering. We need our Thoughts accessible, tagged and linked rather than buried. Same principle applies here. I don't think this forum is fulfilling its promise of a meaningful viewing and user vote on ideas...though I'm sure the PB team will recognize the ones with merit.

    This forum could, at any rate, use a blog-style keyword…

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  20. Be able to use PersonalBrain as a topic map for devonthink databases. Attaching links to documents stored in devonthink.

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