Better thinking from TheBrain

TheBrain has released PersonalBrain 5.0, the latest version of its powerful information visualization and organization software. Now available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux, PersonalBrain's interface enables users to link all ideas, files, and Web pages so people can better understand their information, see hidden connections and liberate themselves from linear file organization.

TheBrain highlights the following features of PersonalBrain 5.0:

• an outline mode offering a broader view while retaining the flexibility of a networked structure;
• visual tagging, providing another way of finding information and accomplishing tasks;
• a presentation mode enabling full-screen visualization, thus avoiding the tedium of slideshow presentations;
• ability to save customized layouts created in the expanded view;
• import of outlines and mind maps created in many other programs, permitting users to upgrade their existing data into a scalable associative network; and
• robust Mac OS X functionality·