Using the PersonalBrain™ to manage your knowledge

Many cristalla.com courses use the Personal Brain™ from The Brain.com which enables you to create your own knowledge maps — right on your computer desktop. There is no need to be connected to the Web to use your personal knowledge maps. The PersonalBrain™ is a dynamic knowledge map. Selecting any thought in the map will show you how it is related to other thoughts or items in the map.

On a Web page with hyperlinks you may navigate the links in any order, but the author has decided the number of links and the relationship between them. In your PersonalBrain™ you decide how to connect information.

For example, you could select documents from the cristalla.com Resource Center drag them into your Personal Brain™ and add in documents from your own files and related e-mails — creating your own linked knowledge map.

You can attach documents such as Web pages, e-mails, Word documents, or other applications, to any thought.

Your knowledge map can be searched, or you can search the Web from your PersonalBrain™ and build additional maps.

The maps mirror the way we think — by linking thoughts, not placing them in a hierarchical system of Folders and Files.

The hierarchical system is familiar to us from our computer file storage, so it may take a while to get used to this new way of relating, storing, and retrieving our ideas and documents.