Library

About the 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 the Library.

Use the table of contents

To give you a bet­ter ori­en­ta­tion, you can always refer to the table of con­tents while read­ing.

1. Click / tap on the Icon of the side­bar in the top-right 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 / tab on a spe­cif­ic head­er to be direct­ed to the cor­re­spond­ing con­tent.

Use the search function

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 with­ing the title 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’

💡 Use the fil­ter but­ton to nar­row your search. You can search for very spe­cif­ic bits — such as images, videos or quizzes. ‘Show all’ deletes the set fil­ters.

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 very 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 mod­ule. 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

The dot menu of every bit gives you mul­ti­ple options to work with a bit:

Add to Basket

Col­lect mul­ti­ple Bits to a Clip­board / Bas­ket and use them in you Note­book or in the Mes­sen­ger

Send…

Send a sin­gle Bit to one of your con­tacts.

Save to Notebook…

Save a sin­gle Bit to one of your note­books.

Add Bookmark

Add a Book­mark to eas­i­ly find the Bit again lat­er.

Add Favorite

Add a Favorite to mark impor­tant Bits.

Add Note

Add a Note to anno­tate a bit.

Add Scribble

Add a freeform scrib­ble to the bit

Copy

Copy a sin­gle Bit to use it else­where.

Copy Link to this Bit

Copy the link to a sin­gle Bit to use it else­where.

Sharing multiple Bits

If you want to send not just one bit, but sev­er­al to one of your con­tacts or trans­fer 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.

After you have filled the bas­ket, you can check the con­tents of the bas­ket by click­ing on the side­bar / on the table of con­tents. In the upper-right cor­ner, you can see how many objects are cur­rent­ly in the bas­ket.

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

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.

💡 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.

Create and edit annotations

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

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.

Favorites

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

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.

💡 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.

Scribbles

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

See 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.