Library

In the library, you’ll find all the titles and learning content you’ve downloaded or purchased from the Academy. All the content you need for you and your learning journey at your fingertips! Open a title in the library and start learning. You can read, watch, listen, highlight, annotate, and edit learning content.

Since the learning content in Get More Brain is built very modular, you can share individual content with your contacts or save it to a personal notebook.

Reading content

If you want to read and edit your learning content, just click / tap on the corresponding book or course. Now the reader of Get More Brain opens, and you can fully focus on the content.

To close the reader, click / tap on the close-button in the upper-left corner. This will take you back to your → Library.

Use the table of contents

💡 The table of contents in the Reader works in the same way as the → TOC in a notebook.

To help you find your way around, you can always refer to the table of contents when reading.

1. click/tap on the sidebar icon in the top right-hand corner
2. the table of contents opens with the current chapter and all subheadings
   • Use the up arrow to jump to the previous chapter
   • Use the down arrow to jump to the next chapter
3. click / tap on the title of the current chapter to open a jump list with all chapters
4. click / tap on a specific heading to go to the corresponding content.

Search the Library

Search in the Library is quick and easy. You can either search content in the entire library or in a specific book. There are some advanced search options to find exactly what you need.

Search the entire Library

Use the Magnifying Glass in the upper right corner of your Library to search for a specific content.

1. Click / tap the icon.
2. Enter the search term.
3. Choose from the list of bits to open the content.

Search content in a Book

Next to the icon of the table of contents, you find an icon of a magnifying glass. Click / Tap on it to start a search. This is the fastest way to find any content within the book you are currently reading.

1. Click / Tap on the icon of the magnifying glass in the top-right corner
2. Enter a keyword and press / tab ‘Return’
3. Get More Brain shows you all results with a rich preview
4. Use the Dot Menu of every result to ‘find the content in the book’

You can drill down your search by filtering specific assets like text, images, videos or quizzes.

Advanced Search

Use advanced search options to make your search even better.

All matches: If you just enter a search term, Get More Brain will find all locations for you.

Exact matches: use double quotes to search for an exact term

Combinations: find locations where two or more terms exist together.

Exclude terms: you can either use NOT or an exclamation mark in front of the term to exclude it.

Sharing Content: What this means for your learning

In Get More Brain, you can share content with others. You can also copy individual content to your notebook and add your own content there.

This sounds obvious, but it’s not!

When you read a printed book while learning, you don’t have this option. If you want to share content with someone, you have to re-write it or scan it by taking a picture. Even if the book is available as an e‑book, it is often difficult to copy individual elements of the content from the e‑book and use them in another app.

In Get More Brain, sharing content is explicitly allowed. For us, it is the core of learning that you continue to work with content, discuss it with others, add your own thoughts and ideas to it. That’s why the content in Get More Brain is modular. You don’t have to copy an entire chapter. You can use and work with individual passages, images, videos or quizzes.

You may wonder about copyright protection. Don’t worry, we’ve taken care of that: if you share a piece of content in Get More Brain with someone who doesn’t own the title, he or she will be taken directly to the Academy, where the title can be purchased. Only then can the shared content be edited.

Sharing single Bits

All learning content in Get More Brain is modular. You can share individual sections, images, videos or quizzes with your learning partners or save them in your personal notebooks. There you can add your own content or make detailed notes.

To work with a single content bit, click on the small black dot at the top right of each bit. A context menu opens, which offers you different possibilities.

1. Go to the Dot Menu of a Bit
2. Choose ‘Send’ or ‘Save to Notebook’
3. Choose a Contact or a Notebook to send the bit to.

Sharing multiple Bits with the Basket

If you want to send not just one, but several Bits to one of your contacts or save them to a notebook, Get More Brain has a handy feature for that: the Basket.

1. Go to the Dot Menu of a Bit
2. Choose ‘Add to Basket’
3. Go to another Bit and repeat the steps

This way you can store as many individual Bits as you like in the basket, a kind of clipboard. The Bits are saved one after the other. You can also merge Bits from different learning contents in the basket.

Once you have filled the basket, you can check the saved contents. In the top right-hand corner, you can see how many items are currently in the basket. The basket icon is located to the left of the button to open the table of contents.

1. Click / Tap on the button to view the current contents of your Basket
2. Use the dot menu of every Bit to perform some actions
3. Use the menu in the top-right corner to:
   • Send all Bits in the Basket to one of your Contacts
   • Save all Bits in the Basket to a Notebook
   • Empty the current Basket

Save content to a notebook

If you come across an important passage of text, a video or a relevant image while reading, you can quickly and easily copy this content into one of your notebooks.

• Click / tap on the dot menu
• Select “Save to notebook…”

From now on, this content will remain saved in your notebook, even if the original content is no longer available.

Add a text highlight

As in almost every screen reader, you can mark important parts of the text with color.

1. Select the text you want to colorize.
2. Select the highlighter icon in the popup menu.
3. To remove the highlight, click / tap the icon again.

💡 Due to restrictions on mobile devices, this works only in a desktop browser.

Instead of just marking a text with colors, you can add an annotation (Bookmark, Favorite, Note). The selected text will be copied to the annotation.

Add and edit annotations

When reading or watching your content, you can create Notes, Favorites and Bookmarks. These remain stored with your content.

💡 Favorites, Notes and Bookmarks are convenient tools to annotate your learning content. That said, there is another way to create annotations. You can copy one or more bits into a personal Notebook. You can also use annotations there. But you have many more options because you can also create and add your own content in your Notebooks. It’s also possible to share notes from your Notebook with your Contacts. This feature is not offered by the simple Favorites, Notes and Bookmarks in the Library.

Add Bookmarks

Bookmarks are important to remember the exact location of a specific Bit. You can build your own Table of Contents with your Bookmarks.

You can add a comment.

Every Bookmark has its own Dot Menu where you can change the color or delete the Bookmark.

Add Favorites

If you like a content, you can add a Favorite to the specific Bit. You can type in a brief comment. Every Favorite has its own Dot Menu where you can change the color the Favorite.

You may also change the text format to “Title”, “Subtitle” or “Text”.

Add Notes

If a Favorite with a brief comment is not enough to write down your thoughts, you can use a Note.

In a Note, you can place longer texts. You can create lists and work with titles. You can even insert images into your note. Every Note has its own Dot Menu where you can change the color or delete the Note.

Add scribbles

You can add a scribble to a bit. This works best on a convertible/tablet with a pencil.

When you are drawing, you can simply delete individual elements by activating them and clicking/tapping on the trash can in the context menu.

Find all your Annotations

Use the sidebar to see all your favorites, notes and bookmarks. From there, you can jump directly to the places in the content where you made the annotation.

1. Click / Tab on the icon of the table of contents in the upper-right corner.
2. Open the jump list by clicking / tapping on the name of the current chapter.
3. On the bottom of the list you find links to see your Bookmarks, Favorites and Notes.
4. Choose one of them and see the list of all your annotations.
5. You can filter the list by color.
6. Click / Tap on one specific annotation to jump to its location in the content.

Chat with Book

You can start a chat with any book in your → Library. This opens a new conversation in your → Messenger where you can ask questions, summarize content and work with the content of the book.

💡 This feature is not available to everyone. it must be approved by your organisation.