TheBrain and Evernote

I use The Brain for my personal knowledge mapping for complex content, with different knowledge views and levels that are impossible to combine in table or hierarchical format. I also use Evernote as document repository, since EN allows me to share individual notes (EN speak, i.e. Thoughts in TB speak) with contact, to receive content automatically from social media and web searches through IFTTT, and to annotate embedded pdf files. Also, EN lets me put content faster into its repository than The Brain Box allows me to do, and in many cases the EN lets me find specific content faster in a more user-friendly format (tabular). Needless to say that TB is much better in visualizing connections. Knowledge link mapping in TB has advantages, although it is often a time-consuming process. Finally, information security and tool risks (we never know whether EN or TB will preserve current solutions, I use the following workflow to arrive a robust knowledge repository that contains my personal view of linking content (network-based) while also solving backup and independence issues.

• Find a file or webpage on the internet (articles, reports etc)
• Download the file as to computer or cloud service (e.g. iCloud Docs)
• Open Evernote:
  • Include the file or link into and Evernote Note and store the note.
  • Create a sharing link of the note in Evernote
• Open TB:
  • Create a thought where the content is going to go
  • Paste the sharing weblink to attach it to the Thought.
  • Optional: attach the computer- or cloud-stored file as well (I have my personal motives for sometimes storing and sometimes not)
  • Optional:Link Thought to other relevant thoughts, use Type or Tag classification if needed.
• When not at my computer but on mobile devices, or if I encounter interesting web content while browsing, I tend to add the weblinks encountered to the Brain Box, fo later review and processing, using the same procedure.

My current main brain I apply this content too has 1550 thoughts and 2600 thought links and is used to map and organize unstructured content, referencing lots of reports, articles, geographies.