PersonalBrain 5 does indeed contain the ability to save expanded views.

Import and export capabilities are also much improved – you can import Freemind, MindManager, Word Outlines, OWL, and much more. You can also use it to both import and export text outlines.

Having read round the subject I would say that it is Topic Map software http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topic_Maps

There seems to be an order of complexity: Mind Maps, Concept Maps & Topic Maps. Concept maps seemed promising. I tried Cmap but it was nowhere as good as Personal Brain.

I sometimes have to start with Mind Maps, say when I have a brainstorm with people who use Freemind. I do wish there was an import filter for Freemind files (.MM extension) and perhaps MindManager files. This would be a great way to gather material to put into a Brain, after the brainstorm in a filering and analysis session.

In our business, we consult to a wide range of organisations on information and knowledge management. While TheBrain’s ability to connect across metadata and hierarchies is great, it would be far more useful if knowlege workers can add context by freezing views that provide visual cues – in effect publishing a perspective.

The Galaxy It software is powered by the fractal grid technology which is considered a disruptive innovation for information management.

Rod.

The features are very impressive and stir-up new ideas:

when switching to the various views, one becomes particularly useful, by arranging Thoughts optically on the plex in such a way that the “picture” of that view becomes very “obvious” …couple days later, you may want to give it another focus by re-arranging the same content.

Now the catch: once I have created such an arrangements, I would like to store it “as is” and re-call the same arrangement for demo-purposes… I do not see, how that can be done, yet … this function I would call “save plex-view as …” which would require you to choose a name and save the “frozen” view of the plex.