Comments on: Personal Brain 5 Review

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By: Loose_Wire

Loose_Wire — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 05:27:12 +0000

Marcus, I think you're right on the money here, though I'd agree with some of the commenters that it also works great as a bookmark manager–altho I'd still love to find a way to merge it with delicious in some way.

One thing I'm trying to improve on is to connect it to an outliner database. My best bet at the moment is MyInfo, but I'm not sure it's as easy as it could be.

By: woodwise

woodwise — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 00:56:47 +0000

I was introduced to PB many years ago (v1.x), and didn't follow up because it didn't seem worth the effort, as novel as it was – and I like novelty. But novelty has to be useful sometimes. I recently decided to look at PB again, and installed v5.x. I, too, think that the list of top uses doesn't do much to sell the product. For example, I keep my web links (800 links, 50 folders) in a simple directory structure that is easy to DnD update and backup (I use Backer). So I always have my web links with me, and they are browser-independent. I place a link to the top level directory on the Windows task bar, and the links are very accessible. The only con is that I can't conveniently cross-list web pages in two directories, and I don't want dupes. So I occasionally must search the top level dir for the web link I want because it isn't where I expect it to be. If I find myself doing this a few times for a particular link, I move it. PB would make this much easier, but with more overhead, because a) I'd have to run PB, and b) I'd have to keep opening and closing the Web Pages Brain (unless PB now permits multiple open Brains).

By: zenrain

zenrain — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 01:30:19 +0000

Good read Marcus, thanks!

I tried Webnote Happy and also Webbla, and used them both for a while. Where they both fail is they don’t automatically synchronize to Safari. This is a rather large issue for me, since I use an iPhone, and I use Safari to sync my bookmarks. Since I also use LaunchBar as a quicklaunch which catalogs the Safari bookmarks, it’s a dealbreaker for me. If you use MobileMe and several Macs, you may be wanting the same thing.

What I ended up doing is using PB less as a bookmark manager, but more as a reference. For stuff I want to find easily and quickly, it becomes a Safari bookmark. If it has a reference to something in PB (or I may want it to have one in the future) I drag it to PB. If I want to find it fairly easily, but references to other topics, it goes in both. If it’s purely a reference, it goes into PB.

You can also create a frequent tag in PB, and attach very common bookmarks, this may be another option for you.

Once again, thanks for the great post.

By: Steeph

Steeph — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 23:00:43 +0000

As Dyslucksia says, just Drag&Drop.
You could set a 'collect' thought as you home thought where you can return to quickly. You can then just drop the bookmarks into PB and deal with the admin later if you wish to.

By: dyslucksia

dyslucksia — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 14:52:39 +0000

I agree Marcus, PB is arguably the best independent bookmarks manager in the market today, probably because no one else has yet considered how important it is to be able to file something under more than one heading.

The quickest way to add a bookmark, I’ve found, is to drag-and-drop the favicon into the plex. Alternatively, DnD it into the Notes Editor. If you choose the former, see if AutoHiding PB works for you. If the latter, make your browser’s window a little narrower than PB’s so a little of the Notes pane is showing behind the browser, then drag the favicon into Notes without changing windows.

By: marcusv

marcusv — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 20:20:11 +0000

Steeph, have you found a way to quickly add bookmarks to PB? I could possibly see using it as a bookmark manager, but the process of switching applications, creating a node, going to the menu and "paste web link" is too much for me to do for every bookmark.

I currently use delicious.com (http://delicious.com/zzzmarcus/) which is hosted and available everywhere (even where my PB is not) and has really nice browser integration through plugins or bookmarklets, but if you know of a better process to get bookmarks into PB, I'd be open to considering it.

By: Steeph

Steeph — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 20:06:54 +0000

PB is IMHO a perfect bookmark manager.
Why? Because you can associate with other stuff you have in your brain. It's decoupled from your browser so you can switch browsers without migrating stuff. And it useful to contain all your data and things in one place instead of here and there.