Working with Brains

These topics are about brains as a whole: what a brain is, the brains list where you find and open your brains, and the tasks that apply to an entire brain, such as renaming it, checking its statistics and activity, replacing text throughout it, and deleting it.

• What Is a Brain — A brain is a self-contained knowledge space — a network of thoughts and the connections between them. You can have as many as you like.
• The Brains List — The brains list is your home screen — open, create, favorite, hide, sort, group, and filter all of your brains, with a Library sidebar to focus the view.
• Creating a Brain — Make a new brain by giving it a name — that's all it takes to start a fresh knowledge space — or make a copy of a brain's content by importing its brain archive into a new brain.
• Opening a Brain — Open a brain in the current view, a new tab, a new window, or the desktop app — on the thought you last had active or on its home thought — and get your windows and tabs back when the desktop app restarts.
• Renaming and Brain Icon — Rename a brain, give it a custom icon, or assign it a color so it's easy to recognize in the brains list and tabs.
• Brain Statistics — See counts for a brain — thoughts, links, types, tags, notes, and attachments — along with sizes and other totals.
• Brain Activity Report — The Activity Report lists the thoughts that were recently activated in a brain, when, and by which user, and ranks thoughts by how often they were visited — available to the brain's admin.
• Find in Brain — Find exact text or a pattern across a whole brain — in thought names, labels, link labels, notes, external attachment paths or attached URLs — go to each result, and replace it everywhere after checking every change.
• Featured and Public Brains — Explore brains that others have published — in TheBrain on the web, open a featured or public brain to browse it read-only.
• Deleting a Brain — Delete the copy of a brain on your device or the copy in the cloud — a permanent action you have to confirm — and see what each deletion leaves behind for you and for other people who have the brain.