TheBrain development team has been hard at work developing key user requests and designing new features for expansive knowledgebase creation and easy idea capture.

This new release is all about tailoring your PersonalBrain to your unique work patterns. From floating your Brain transparently on your desktop to synchronizing it to the WebBrain cloud, your PersonalBrain becomes an extension of your own mind for faster thinking and intelligent access to your information.

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PersonalBrain Mindmapper May Be the Closest Thing to an Extra Brain

“PersonalBrain is quite possibly the most intuitive mind mapping utility on the planet. Beyond that, its user interface looks like something that came straight out of Star Trek, making it the nerdily coolest-looking mind mapping tool I’ve seen.” Read Full Review

  Free upgrade for all 5 users.

      Version 5.5 contains over 150 new features and improvements.

Key Features Include:

• Easier, more powerful reports
• Massive keyboard commands: virtually every single feature can be assigned a command
• Instant screen capture for Thought icons
• More powerful Thought views with additional options
• Instant spell checking for Thoughts
• And much more!

See our Complete Feature List

…or, for a quick preview, check out my 5 favorite features of PB5.5 in 5 minutes!
 
Now Available as a Beta release

Enjoy using your PersonalBrain!
Matt

The new WebBrain hosting service is now in beta. It lets you easily publish Brains online in just a few steps. You don’t need a Web server, all you need is your Brain. Just use the File > Create BrainZip command and then upload the file at http://webbrain.com. Once published, your Brain can be viewed from just about anywhere. It’s currently still in beta, but there are a lot of features in place already.

To put your Brain online:

• Sign up for an account at http://webbrain.com/signup
• Create a BrainZip from PersonalBrain 5
• Click the “Upload” button and submit your Brain
• Your Brain will appear on your “My Account” page within a few minutes
• When you want to update your Brain, just upload it again

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PersonalBrain 5.0 was unveiled today at Macworld 2009 to hundreds of very excited Mac users who dropped by TheBrain booth #3419, North Hall.

PersonalBrain gives you a conceptual space that puts your ideas and thinking at the forefront, creating a dynamic network of visually connected Thoughts that represent your mind.

New PersonalBrain 5.0 Feature Highlights Include

• Powerful “outline” view enables a broader view while retaining the flexibility of a networked structure
• Visual tagging gives another way to find information and enhances the ability to use PersonalBrain for Getting Things Done.
• Presentation mode enables full screen visualization
• Save customized layouts created in the “expanded” view
• Import of outlines and mind maps created in many other programs lets users upgrade their existing data into a scalable associative network

Augmented Mac OS X Functionality

• Spotlight integration enables searching of information in the context of how it’s all connected
• Address Book, iCal, and Apple Mail integration enables users to tie all the information on their Mac together seamlessly
• QuickLook integration enables users to instantly preview attachments
• Specially created Mac OS X look and feel fits in seamlessly
• Enhancements throughout PersonalBrain make everything from scrolling through information with the mouse wheel to creating reports faster and easier.

If you need to analyze, brainstorm and synthesize a wide variety of information, PersonalBrain will be an invaluable tool. It lets you express key relationships across all information sources, so underlying thinking and key ideas are instantly visible. PersonalBrain 5.0’s new importing features make it even easier to get started. Powerful new visualization and tagging features provide an increased level of semantic meaning to Thoughts.

PersonalBrain 4 users can upgrade to 5.0 for $74.95. The upgrade is free for users who purchased PersonalBrain 4 after June 1, 2008

Download PersonalBrain 5 at http://www.thebrain.com/download

In case you hadn’t heard, PersonalBrain 5 Beta is now available from www.thebrain.com/download.

Be sure to check out some of the highlights at The Mind Mapping Software Update.

- Matt

Thanks to all who visited us at KMWorld and Intranets 2008 in San Jose, California.  We had a great time visiting with some long time PersonalBrain users and introducing TheBrain to some newbies as well.

Art Murray stopped by our booth, here’s his full report.

PersonalBrain is now ranked number one on the list of Most Popular Productivity Tools on http://www.apple.com/.

Thanks MacBrain users

Matt

The return of the webinars!!!

Many of you have been missing our old webinar recordings on line. We recently switched back to GoToMeeting (from Webex) for our special webinars an Friday PB101 classes. This means the old Webex hosted recording had to be exported to Flash and moved. Well, they’re back. So if you are interested in seeing…

• PersonalBrain on Mac
• Jerry’s 84,000+ Thought Brain
• Inside the Mind of an Inventor
• Learning how to publish a SiteBrain
• Shelley’s EKP demo
• and many more…

look no further than:

www.thebrain.com/#-130

Enjoy the show

Matt

Well KMWorld 2007 was a huge success for us. We had so much fun meeting a lot of long time users of PersonalBrain and sharing all the new features of PB4.1 and EKP. Enjoy those new 4.1 CD’s and your squishy Brains

In case you missed the show, you can catch some of our "KMWorld Snippets!"

Welcome to KMWorld. Take a quick tour of the booth just before the exhibit hall opens.

Shelley Hayduk interviews Arthor Shelley, author of The Organizational Zoo. Some of you may be familiar with his Great, Great, Aunt… Mary Shelley who wrote a little novel called Frankenstein.

And finally, a great interview with Harlan Hugh, inventor of TheBrain.

Thanks for watching!
Matt