Jul 5th, 2007
Part Two of Eric Mack’s Interview with The Brain Creator, Harlan Hugh
Eric Mack On-Line | Part two of my interview with The Brain creator, Harlan Hugh
“Personal Brain is an amazing tool for mapping your brain. You might even call it a true mind mapping tool. Listen to the podcast and you hear why I think so. I plan to make The Brain a key component to my personal knowledge management toolkit so I expect that I’ll return to visit Shelly and Harlan again.”
Eric Mack has been hanging out at The Brain headquarters in Marina Del Rey and has provided an excellent report in these podcasts. You’ll learn about how the Personal Brain software got its start and what excites its creators about the new functionality in the long-awaited rewrite, now in beta.
I’m pretty excited myself. I was an avid user of this software in the early days and am enjoying the new version immensely. It has always been, and is even more so now, the most impressive software I’ve ever seen for creating a flexible personal knowledge store. The possibilities for interconnection and description of data are mind-boggling. It’s a tool that takes a bit of discipline to not get too fussy with, but time spent “gardening” your brain files tends to be a good investment. Just ask Jerry Michalski, whose brain file has become so huge and rich and famous that a version of it is being kept on ice on The Brain’s own servers.
Don’t miss part one: Eric Mack On-Line | Meet Shelley & Harlan of The Brain Technologies
“As I’ve written before, Personal Brain is an amazing tool for mapping your brain. You might even call it a true mind mapping tool. Listen to the podcast and you hear why I think so. I plan to make The Brain a key component to my personal knowledge management toolkit along with Lotus Notes, MindManager, and other excellent tools.”
I really appreciated Eric’s interviews and enjoyed listening to them greatly. Eric is a genius, especially where technology tools are concerned, and he asks excellent questions. I’m becoming a great fan of his blogs. I’ve started reading Notes on Productivity and I don’t even use Lotus Notes. Thanks Eric! That is not to say that I don’t wish I was a Lotus Notes user. If Notes got a quarter of the credit it deserves, Exchange Server would be obscure.
