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14 Mar 08

PersonalBrain 101: Spring Cleaning: 6 Ways You Can Improve Your Brain

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Finally if you do need to use the same Thought name more than once, you can use context-sensitive names. PersonalBrain offers a timesaver (affectionately known as the “comma trick”) for helping you manage Thoughts that should appear to have the same name, and are children of separate Thoughts. Here’s an example of when this might occur: Say you have Thoughts for each of your clients, each of which has a billing department. You’d like a child Thought named “Billing Info” for each of your client Thoughts. However, you may not want to have duplicate Thought names. Why? Because later, when you’re looking at these Thoughts you won’t be able to tell them apart without looking at their parents.

Here’s how to remedy this potential dilemma when you create the new Thought: When you type the Thought name, first type the name of its parent, then type a comma, then type the name of the new Thought.

The Thought will display its full name when it is active. When its parent Thought is active, you’ll see only the portion of the name that does not repeat the parent’s name. Ensuring that each of your Thoughts has a unique name will help find and identify them more easily.

The part of the Thought’s name that is hidden is context sensitive. Say for example that you wanted to have a single place to see the billing information for all your clients. You might create a thought called “Billing Info” and then link to the billing information Thoughts for each of your clients, such as “NewGuys, Billing Info.” If you do this, when Billing Info is active then NewGuys, Billing Info will appear as just NewGuys, whereas when NewGuys is active, that same Thought will appear as Billing Info. Try it―you’ll see how this can be very useful.