Proposed changes to TheBrain software:

	* I wish references to Thoughts could be made as links within thought notes. (YES, this is the main missing feature of TheBrain in my opinion also. This would turn TheBrain to a wiki in fact!)

'' rightClick on any text string that is a thought name. The chose 'Activate' to do this.  A bit annoying that it takes two clicks, but it does work.''

	* They should announce that the recently issued patent(s) will not be used to hold up other like-kind software projects (refer to other commentaries at [1][2][3]). Their press release on the first patent gloated over the "significant barrier" the patent will represent to other efforts. MindMappingSoftware has been around for a while, so the patent wouldn't be likely to stand the test of a trial, but the patent is likely to cause other efforts to try to stay out of harms way if they aren't funded to the extent that they can afford a patent challenge, which is said to cost around 500k.

	 :	[1] http://technocrat.net/952758993/index_html
	 :	[2] http://jim.roepcke.com/whybrainwhy
	 :	[3] http://www.thebrain.com/company/Press/press_march7_2000.html

	* I wanna Linux version. Integrated in a GUI, as the file management system. Wishful thinking - see patent issue aforementioned.

	* They should have better standards compliancy. Compatibility with Eudora, which uses the standard mbox email format. Today TheBrain only works fine with Outlook, which uses a proprietary email format from Microsoft.

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Isn't this a GuiWiki?

''The problem with using Wiki is that once you've been here, all almost-isomorphic hypertext media are compared to Wiki. Rotate your viewpoint. Compare everything to the XanaduProject instead.''

AhHa!
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Related:

Concept Mapping/Semantic Networking/ Knowledge Representation:
links to many tools:
http://www.sci.sdsu.edu/CRMSE/kfisher_knowrep.html


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Contributors: GilbertCattoire