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Topics: TheBrain | Knowledge management | Software | Project management tools | Tools
TheBrain is a powerful tool that will allow you to:
  • Capture all your files, thoughts, to dos and otherwise in one location
  • Never Forget anything and have your knowledge at your finger tips
  • Visualize your knowledge in an intuitve way
  • Present to others in a dynamic mutli dimensional way
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TheBrain Examples of Use

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There are many different usages of TheBrain.
Click on any of the links below to see examples of that.
 

Context Diagram Example

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Topics: Project output | Business case | Prince2 | Sample | TheBrain | Objectives | Benefits

Context Diagram Example

A very valuable feature of TheBrain is the ability to use three different types of views:
  • Normal
  • Outline
  • Expanded
 
In the examples below we have used the expanded view to show the context of certain topics. In this example we wanted to show the relation between project output, outcome and benefits.
 
(Click the images below to zoom in!)

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Hovering over a thought shows the labels of the cutom links we created.

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There are no limits, other than your sceen real estate so to speak, to the amount of thought you can have open in the expanded view. We enlarged the view to show the relation between the contents of the business case and the elements a project manager needs to control.

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Book Unlocked: PMBoK

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Topics: PMI | PMBoK | Sample | TheBrain
TheBrain is a great tool to summarize and unlock the contents of books.
 

We have used TheBrain to unlock PMI's guide to the Project Management Boidy of Knowldges (PMBOK).

 

PMBOK Unlocked

By doing so we are no longer confined to a one dimensional way of going through the book. We can link different sections and quickly jump from one to the other without having to flip pages!

Quick Jumps

We can now drill down (or up) to deliverables as part of processes.

 Drill Down Process

By creating different thought type we can see directly where for instance outputs are required.

Thought types

In addition to the thought type we have creted different link types to identify what type of relation is meant in each case.

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Finaly we have added an image to some thoughts to be shown as part of a presentation. The image will show in full size when hovering over the thought.

Hover over to show image

 

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Course Example: Model Thinking

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Topics: Model Thinking | Sample | TheBrain | Organize course material
TheBrain is a great tool to use for note taking during and after a course.
 

Recently I took an online course at Coursera, called Model Thinking.

I used TheBrain for taking notes and linking to some of the thoughts I already had in my Brain. (currently just over 10,000 thoughts)

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I used the "Capture Thought Icon" tool to add some screen captures to certain thoughts:

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When you hover over the thought the Image will show (same size as the capture itself)

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 I used the updated link function to give certain links a distinct colour and direction. In this case to point out that Randomness and Random walks do not constitute so-called Markov Models.

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I use TheBrain also to store all the course material. By using different thought types the thoughts get grouped together. In this case I assigned a type of "presentation" to all the presentation files.

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Below you can an exported HTML version of this Brain

Registered users of this site can download a copy of the Brainzip file

 

 

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