Personal brain

[Eric Van Hove]

1.3.1 PersonalBrain 2.1

 ......The outstanding concept embedded with PersonalBrain is the way 
brainstorming and idea generation can be achieved with links to 
anything 
within one"s computer, websites across the internet and all linked to 
ideas within personal texts. Essentially the way PersonalBrain is used 
here is to provide a methodology for databasing chunks of text for use 
and re-use in later texts.

Basic Units: The Thought
The most basic unit of information used in PersonalBrain is the 
"thought". A thought can be entered into PersonalBrain and then linked 
with any other thought. Ideas can be generated and linked in an 
appropriate logical manner for the idea generation stage. However, any 
thought can be forgotten, deleted, or re-linked with other thoughts. A 
thought can also be linked with a templated text carrier, such as MS 
Word, so that a thought can be expanded into text. Thoughts can be 
relocated by following a thought"s logical connections, or through 
entering text in a search facility; text can be located by following 
the 
logic of thought connection and/or by using a search facility to search 
all text.

The magic of PersonalBrain is the way the "plex" displays connections 
between thoughts. Mind Mapping and Brainstorm diagrams can get very 
cluttered and messy. PersonalBrain thoughts are constructed in such a 
way that immediate connections are available and viewable, whereas more 
distant thoughts are not within the viewing area (plex). Thus, even 
though there maybe 20,000 thoughts within the particular Brain, only a 
handful are shown and only that handful need to be shown to identify 
where in the thought process this current thought is placed.

 Flexibility of PersonalBrain

PersonalBrain is so well structured that it provides both flexibility 
for Brainstorming and Idea Generation and also allows the composer to 
re-structure thoughts into a chapter and section organization after the 
thoughts have been generated. In fact the original idea generation 
structure, which tends to be more thematic, does not have to be erased 
at all. Rather, chapter and section organization can be superimposed 
over the thematic version and both can be followed after the more 
structured version is entered. Through using PersonalBrain, the 
computer 
is able to complete the text of an entire book without having to place 
each text component into a document structure until almost the very 
last 
moment. What this gives is a much neater document structure in MS Word, 
as well as making the final structuring of the book the final act, and 
thus allowing the composer to be very much more flexible in drafting 
ideas for the book without being constricted by the structure of the 
book"s presentation until the last moment.

Discovering New Texts
In addition, by having all text in thematic chunks, these chunks can be 
used and re-used in other settings far more easily than in other 
formats. By having the total text of a single author captured as text 
chunks, the largest of which is a single section, including diagrams, 
tables and other objects that are needed for that thematic chunk, it is 
possible to combine and re-combine these chunks into other texts. One 
of 
the author"s favorite activities is to search using a particular 
keyword, linking the thoughts together, and then forming a MS Word 
document using these associated chunks to then realize a text not 
planned to be a text by the author. This is both instructive to the 
author about conclusions that can be drawn from a cross referencing of 
material, and provides new ways of viewing the information for sales as 
ebooks that otherwise may have never been written Page 14 of 42 a cross 
referencing of material, and provides new ways of viewing the 
information for sales as ebooks that otherwise may have never been 
written.

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Eric Van Hove  - tempter - www.transcri.be

"The fact that I exist shows that this world have no meaning."
  - Cioran



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