Unlinking Thoughts

When you find that the relationship between thoughts is no longer relevant, you can remove the link.

Click the link between the thoughts you want unlinked.

PersonalBrain™ will ask if you intend to unlink the thoughts. Click Yes if you do.

Forgetting and Remembering Thoughts

When a thought is no longer of immediate use, you may ‘forget it'. Forgetting is not the same as deleting. When you forget a thought, it remains in your Brain with all its related thoughts - it simply will not appear in the plex unless you have chosen to display forgotten thoughts. Forgotten thoughts can be remembered when the need arises. Since forgetting does not affect a thought's content, you can think of forgetting as a way to simplify the plex.

To forget a thought:

Click its link to the active thought. If the thought you want to forget has no other links to the active thought, PersonalBrain™ will ask if you want to forget the thought and its relatives.

If you want to forget a thought but not its relatives, instead of clicking the broken link, right-click the thought to open the Thought menu and choose Forget Thought. PersonalBrain™ will forget the thought and automatically relink its relatives to another thought. PersonalBrain™ makes an intelligent guess as to which thought to link to - if no obvious choice is available, PersonalBrain™ will ask you to specify a thought.

Activating a Forgotten Thought

You might want to activate a forgotten thought. You can activate a forgotten thought by using any of the following methods:

Clicking its pin.

Clicking its name in the past thought list.

Using the instant activation box.

Displaying forgotten thoughts and navigating to it.

Displaying Forgotten Thoughts

Forgotten thoughts can be displayed. To toggle their display on and off:

Click the Options menu.

Choose Forgotten Thoughts.

How to Remember

If you need to bring a forgotten thought back to regular use, you can ‘remember it'. To remember a thought:

Display forgotten thoughts (see previous sub-section).

Link or relink the forgotten thought to a thought that is not forgotten.

Deleting Thoughts

Deleting a thought eliminates it from PersonalBrain™ - you can never remember a deleted thought. To delete a thought:

Forget the thought (see previous section).

Make sure forgotten thoughts are displayed (see previous section).

Click the broken link between the thought to be deleted and the active thought.

Confirm that you want to delete the thought.