Export personal settings for thought types, etc.
I would like to export and import all the personal settings I have used for my brain. Like thought types and their settings (Icon, Color, etc.). I am used to my set of thought types and it's no fun to create all these settings from scratch when I create a new brain.
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Anonymous commented
similar to: 688532-allow-the-transfer-of-all-thought-types-to-another
useful to sync my GTD system "updates" between my work and home brain...
option to do the same with pins, link types, saved reports and tags would be good. -
Karl Hebenstreit commented
By way of example, one way I've been addressing this challenge is by creating "Thought Type" thoughts. a "Thought Type, Person" is assigned the Person Thought Type, and is the thought where I can attach not only the internal image(s) being used for the Person thought type, but also the source link for attribution purposes. I have a Thought Type section ("lobe") of my .brain files, which I can then copy as a selection to other .brain files, and this brings the Thought Type into the new .brain.
This practice is being explained more completely in a "A Guide to PersonalBrain" .brain file which I'm publishing to Webbrain. My goal for that .brain is that we can collaborate on this .brain as a community, and it can evolve into being the companion .brain for a book. This 'Thought Type lobe' can then become a shared "Thought Type library" .brain file, and people can copy those which are applicable. The long-term goal is that a future version of PersonalBrain will be able to have more formal Template constructs.