With things like thebrain, you have to hand-stitch everything together. It's somewhat useful if actually diagnosing linear events, or construction/engineering processes, since those are often static.
With zettle-like notetaking, you may find connections between things that you normally wouldn't think to link together, or not spend the time hand-stitching together.
I was once doing a completely isolated dive into homeopathy and the way it seems to interact with water structure an the molecular level. I realized this tied in with certain atomic crystaline geometries, so without distracting myself from the specific research I was doing at the moment, I simply added a tag to my other research: something like #crystals #salts #zeolites #quantumchemistry #electro-biology for instance
Later, when viewing "the graph" (which is the auto-organized linkages between notes, I could see and also recall there was a connection between those two seemingly discrete areas of interest. This "short circuit" allows me to expand thinking and find connections between things without the need to hand-build a structure.
The best use case for thebrain, imo, in this field of conspiracy research, would be to linearly depict and annotate event sequences. A sequence of q-proofs, or the way uranium one played out, or the timeline of earth history, financial history, etc. Those things are suited for static tree graphs since the events themselves are static in time.
The main issue with thebrain and static note structures, is that you may end up determining there's more connections to add to the graph, that interlink in inextricable ways, which makes it confoundingly difficult to try and hand-organize. Instead, a solution would be to have a "cloud" of notes, and then ask the cloud what's related to q, or money, or what x politician has been related to. This will then automatically draw the connections, allowing you to learn more from your own research in unforseen ways.
Which then, as I mentioned in this reply can be used to support a thesis or create a piece of useful content.
As an aside, it works exceptionally well for keeping track of posts/news pieces that are interesting but seemingly disconnected. I may find a good GAW post that has it's own way of describing how the Fed and Titanic are related, so I'll save that link into the zettle, along with tags of #fed #titanic #(names of those onboard). Later, I may one day make another note about those names that were onboard. Instead of reacting like "hmm, where have I heard that name before?" I can see that the name links back to the post. Now connections start to appear!
Let's say as another example: I create a note or series of notes for every mass shooting that has taken place, as they come up. I can now, in the future after taking said notes, say "show me mass shootings" and it'll bring up all of those notes that I took, which now I can use to see similarities or differences, again, without having to manually add or remove them from lists.
Here's an example of a logseq graph, any one of these nodes can be clicked on to show a sidebar of the page/note, and it will also show direct and indirect connections
With things like thebrain, you have to hand-stitch everything together. It's somewhat useful if actually diagnosing linear events, or construction/engineering processes, since those are often static.
With zettle-like notetaking, you may find connections between things that you normally wouldn't think to link together, or not spend the time hand-stitching together.
I was once doing a completely isolated dive into homeopathy and the way it seems to interact with water structure an the molecular level. I realized this tied in with certain atomic crystaline geometries, so without distracting myself from the specific research I was doing at the moment, I simply added a tag to my other research: something like #crystals #salts #zeolites #quantumchemistry #electro-biology for instance
Later, when viewing "the graph" (which is the auto-organized linkages between notes, I could see and also recall there was a connection between those two seemingly discrete areas of interest. This "short circuit" allows me to expand thinking and find connections between things without the need to hand-build a structure.
The best use case for thebrain, imo, in this field of conspiracy research, would be to linearly depict and annotate event sequences. A sequence of q-proofs, or the way uranium one played out, or the timeline of earth history, financial history, etc. Those things are suited for static tree graphs since the events themselves are static in time.
The main issue with thebrain and static note structures, is that you may end up determining there's more connections to add to the graph, that interlink in inextricable ways, which makes it confoundingly difficult to try and hand-organize. Instead, a solution would be to have a "cloud" of notes, and then ask the cloud what's related to q, or money, or what x politician has been related to. This will then automatically draw the connections, allowing you to learn more from your own research in unforseen ways.
Which then, as I mentioned in this reply can be used to support a thesis or create a piece of useful content.
As an aside, it works exceptionally well for keeping track of posts/news pieces that are interesting but seemingly disconnected. I may find a good GAW post that has it's own way of describing how the Fed and Titanic are related, so I'll save that link into the zettle, along with tags of #fed #titanic #(names of those onboard). Later, I may one day make another note about those names that were onboard. Instead of reacting like "hmm, where have I heard that name before?" I can see that the name links back to the post. Now connections start to appear!
Let's say as another example: I create a note or series of notes for every mass shooting that has taken place, as they come up. I can now, in the future after taking said notes, say "show me mass shootings" and it'll bring up all of those notes that I took, which now I can use to see similarities or differences, again, without having to manually add or remove them from lists.