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  1. Another cause of Brain Bloat? I hope not.

    If you've given us the ability to attach URLs to our thoughts and notes, you should also incorporate the ability to automatically check them (termed verification), so that we can remove or edit any dead ones as they age. When a brain contains hundreds of URLs, we should not have to click each link in turn to see if it is still alive. Many bookmarks managers offer this feature, so think how many more copies of PB you would sell if people suddenly started using PB as their bookmarks manager, for which…

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  3. If you click on "Close Brain" for a large brain, PB doesn't actually close the file. It returns you to the Welcome screen. But when you click on the brain name to reopen it, it'll say "The Brain XXX is Already Open." Only apparent option is to end the program and fire it up again.

    Nothing wrong with deferred indexing and restructuring, if that's what's going on, but the user needs a progress meter and a clear indication that a Brain is available or unavailable.

    Memory management seems much improved in 5.0.1.3. But usage ticks up continually as you work…

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    • Allow users to assign field definitions to thought types
    • Make it easier to browse/search for thoughts of a certain type
    • Allow the user to pin thought types
    • Add a preference setting that would make PB prompt the user for the thought type when the thought is created
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  4. 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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  5. "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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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. "Outline view" is kind of "heuristic" classic view (chapter into chapter into chapter... like in a classic document).

    it would very useful to export as text all the branches attached to the selected view in the outline view.

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

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  10. Enable linking of information from Entourage into PersonalBrain.

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  11. Now I am importing a lot of mindmanager files into my Brain.
    In the latest version of PersonalBrain, there is a very nice feature called "link to existing" when pasting outline from clipboard. Can theBrain guys make this also available when the user is doing importing?

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  12. I suggest that if you attach more than one image to a node / thought that they can be switched / circled through with the mousewheel like a slide show. At the moment one sees only one image and a number in the corner how much more there are.

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  13. 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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  14. The scenario I am thinking of is in the use of PB for website publishing where I publish news items to my website and want to have an easy mechanism to remove them after a certain period has elapsed. However, I'm sure there are other applications for this type of feature such as helping to keep your brain 'tidy' by automatically removing information that had expired. I guess there would need to be some form of confirmation dialogue to allow the option of deleting or making the thoughts permanent.

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  15. I mean this will be useful for overview of thought information:

    • A keyboard shortcut for showing label for the active thought (Alt-L)
    • A keyboard shortcut for showing label for thought under the green marker ring (Alt-Ctrl-L)
    • A keyboard shortcut for showing labels for all thoughts in plex, including history (Alt-Shift-L)

    Much faster that using the mouse.

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  16. A feature to create a new brain file from a thought.

    If i have a thought called "Project Something" i can choose to move this thought to a new brain file where "Project Something" will be the main title/topic of the brain and all the childrens are added as thoughts.

    Usage example:
    - You have topics you will no longer work on (like a finished project or notes for a completed school subject) and you want to remove this topic from your brain without deleting the thoughts for ever. With this feature you can archive those kind of thoughts to…

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  17. I would like to request an option to automatically create a brainzip when closing out of PB. I use PB at home and at the office and it is frustrating when I forget to update my thumb drive with the most recent brainzip to transfer from one location to another. Having an option to automatically save a brainzip to a thumb drive would help me to keep both locations in sync.

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  18. Giving properties and attachments their own tabs results in more visible real estate for the attachments. One can see more attachments without increasing the default size of that window.

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  19. I like the idea of having the labels, types and tags appear under the thought when the mouse over the thought. However, a hot key to hide them at will would be nice when the mouse is over the thought so they do not interfere with viewing the links to that thought.

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