Power User Secrets

Apr 3, 2025

Think you know TheBrain? Think again. Learn powerful features, secret shortcuts, and smart customizations that even experienced users may have overlooked.

Get to Know TheBrain 14

Join TheBrain CEO Harlan Hugh for a tour of new features in TheBrain 14.

Introducing TheBrain’s New Web Client

Mar 3, 2023

TheBrain’s all new web client, Project Vulcan, brings visual non-linear knowledge authoring and indexing to everyone on every platform.

Achieving Your New Year's Resolution

Jan 9, 2023

Have a new year's resolution? Have a plan to achieve it? TheBrain can help.

Harlan Hugh Gives the Scoop on TheBrain 9 Development

Aug 26, 2017

Things are heating up this summer with the public beta and accelerated development of TheBrain 9. We cornered Harlan Hugh, CTO and Inventor of TheBrain technology to get the insider scoop on key factors behind the next generation of development. Here’s what he had to say…

Getting Things Done with TheBrain

Mar 3, 2009

"First of all, if it’s on your mind, your mind isn’t clear. Anything you consider unfinished in any way must be captured in a trusted system outside your mind, or what I call a collection bucket, that you know you’ll come regularly back and sort through."

David Allen, Getting Things Done

Moving Beyond Information Hierarchies: An Introduction to Dynamic Mind Mapping

May 6, 2008

Many of our users ask if TheBrain is mind mapping software, file management software or something else… According to Mac|Life Magazine this month, TheBrain is the “most compelling computer adaptation of mind mapping encountered”. So I thought it only fitting to blog about: whether or not TheBrain is in fact “mind mapping software”, what exactly is TheBrain, and where does it fit into the array of desktop applications that you have running on your computer.