They aren’t the creator of the concept and it would seem silly to have someone as a child of a concept. But a coworker may be a Jump Thought of a concept. States or regions are children of countries. Using Jump Thoughtsīe very clear on what is a Parent Thought and what is a Child Thought. It also allows you to create more connections in the long run. It’s easier to create a new branch off the Home Thought and work from there. I tried it once and found that I was switching a lot. I can have multiple Brains! But it’s not a good idea.
#Homeschoolers using thebrain how to#
There isn’t a list of best practices anywhere on how to use TheBrain (that I’ve found) and I certainly wouldn’t tell you that there’s a bad way to use it. If I have an opportunity to be around these people, I will take it every time I can. They’ve been mentors, confidants, or all-around wise people that I enjoy being around. These are people that have had a big impact on me in some way. It usually sparks a fun, geeky conversation. It’s fun to ask someone how their use of Evernote has changed over the last two years when you haven’t seen them. I can also connect these to contacts that use them as well. I sometimes like to see what concepts or interests are connected to these apps. Having them collected in one place makes it easy to see all the things I’ve done or know about a place. So I add locations here as I need and use them as Jump Thoughts elsewhere. I also like seeing what I’ve done in different places. I travel regularly and I’m reaching a point where it’s hard to remember who I’ve met and where. It’s nice to know who helped me out when I was doing foundation work on my house. I can add notes about it but I can also give it Jump Thoughts for the location, any people involved, or anything else that I may want to recall. If an event happens that I want to log, I put it here under the appropriate date. The first two are easy, but the last is the most helpful. I have Child Thoughts under this for Education, Hobbies, and Timeline. So I’ve started logging big events in TheBrain. Sometimes I forget when an event in my life happened. Again, I can use these to make connections elsewhere.
This is similar to concepts, but it’s more about specific things - fountains pens, homeschooling, scotch, espresso. When I have work done or have someone recommended, I put them here. How handy would it be to see all of the mechanics that you know? How about all of the physicians or lawyers? That’s exactly what this does. It’s interesting how many new ideas I get when I see these side by side. These are ideas or systems that I enjoy or participate in - developing intuition, dash/plus note-taking, GTD, etc… If I keep these in TheBrain, I can make connections to other people, tools, and locations, but I can also see a list of my favorite concepts. And if I’m honest, it makes small talk for an introvert easier. It helps me remember that Jill is a homeschooler who likes fountain pens even if I haven’t seen Jill in a year or two.
Before I meet with someone, I’ll pull up TheBrain to see what connections I have with them. The power of this comes with the review process later. TheBrain makes it possible to create connections between people and concepts, ideas, and locations. This isn’t an address book as much as a connection book.
And when I’m looking at the Thought for Utah, I can see Sam. Now when I’m looking at the Thought for Sam, I can see Utah. He’s also not a city of Utah, so he’s not a child. Sam is not the United States, so he’s not Utah’s parent. I found it hard to understand until I saw an example, so I recommend taking a quick look at Jerry’s Brain. The Jump Thoughts are the oddballs and also where the magic happens. A single Thought can have multiple parents, multiple children, and multiple “jump” Thoughts. It allows you to create Thoughts (think of these as nodes in mind-mapping) that are linked in multiple places.
#Homeschoolers using thebrain software#
TheBrain is mind-mapping software on steroids. I can’t trust my mind so I need help remembering. I’ve found that with the vast amount of information that floods my mind every day, I’m better off using an external system to keep it all straight. Unless you have multiple reminders, it’s easy to forget tasks and ideas at all levels of importance. They take up the same amount of space in your mind. Your brain thinks that remembering dog food is just as important as remembering that meeting with your largest client. And we usually ask it to do too much - from what task to work on to our kid’s birth date to a new business strategy.
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