Messenger

This is the Mes­sen­ger in Get More Brain

About the Messenger

The Mes­sen­ger is the most impor­tant part of Get More Brain. In all learn­ing process­es, it is impor­tant for peo­ple to talk to each oth­er. Coach­es talk to learn­ers. Learn­ers talk to oth­er learn­ers. Learn­ers talk to experts. All this hap­pens in the Mes­sen­ger.

The Mes­sen­ger in Get More Brain is like every Mes­sen­ger, but it is espe­cial­ly use­ful for shar­ing con­tent and col­lab­o­rat­ing in learn­ing process­es. You can eas­i­ly include learn­ing con­tent in your con­ver­sa­tions, whether you are send­ing arti­cles, quiz ques­tions, or pho­tos and videos.

With the Mes­sen­ger in Get More Brain, you can make your learn­ing process more effi­cient and pro­duc­tive.

Share Learning Content

The Mes­sen­ger in Get More Brain is made for learn­ing: that’s why you can eas­i­ly share any learn­ing con­tent from your library or note­books. Send texts, images, videos or quizzes to your learn­ing part­ners. They can view and edit the con­tent direct­ly in the Mes­sen­ger. Solve quizzes direct­ly in the chat and send back the answers. This keeps the learn­ing con­ver­sa­tion flow­ing.

Share Learn­ing Con­tent with oth­ers
  1. Go to a title in your library and nav­i­gate to a bit you want to share
  2. Click / tap on the dot menu and choose ‘Send’.
  3. Choose a con­tact from your list
  4. Click / tab ‘Send’

The con­tent bit will be list­ed in your con­ver­sa­tion.

Enrich your messages

Send links with previews

When you enter a URL into a mes­sage, it’s worth wait­ing a sec­ond after past­ing the link. Get More Brain will fetch a rich pre­view of the link and embed it in the mes­sage you send to your chat bud­dy.

Send links with rich pre­views

Add videos

Videos make learn­ing so much eas­i­er and excit­ing. You can eas­i­ly add videos to any con­ver­sa­tion.

  1. Click / tap on the plus sym­bol in the text input field
  2. Choose ‘Video
  3. Paste the URL of a video (Youtube, Vimeo, …)
  4. Use the tab key to see a pre­view of the video
  5. Click ‘Send’ to add the video to your con­ver­sa­tion

Of course, you can use local videos from your device instead of online videos.

  • In the Brows­er, choose ‘Doc­u­ment’ instead of ‘Video’ in the upload-menu.
  • On your smart­phone or tablet, use ‘Pho­to Library’ instead of the video-upload.

💡 it’s not yet pos­si­ble to cre­ate a video direct­ly with the cam­era of your smart­phone.

The video can be played direct­ly in the chat.

Add images

Visu­als and images make it easy to under­stand a com­plex sub­ject and are thus a great help in learn­ing.

see: https://youtu.be/fI1hbaZbucI

  1. Click / tap on the plus sym­bol in the text input field
  2. Choose ‘Pho­to Library
  3. Choose an image from your dri­ve or pho­to library
  4. You see a pre­view of the image
  5. Click ‘Send’ to add the pic­ture to your con­ver­sa­tion

💡 On a smart­phone or tablet, you can add a pic­ture direct­ly from cam­era or from any fold­er instead of the pho­to library. You have to give Get More Brain the per­mis­sion to use pho­tos from your device.

The image shows the Messenger of Get More Brain. When you upload an image file you see a preview.
See a pre­view of the uploaded image.

Add audio files

If you can add videos and pic­tures to a con­ver­sa­tion, of course you can’t miss audio files. Use your device to make voice record­ings and save them as MP3. Then you can eas­i­ly upload them to Get More Brain and add them to a con­ver­sa­tion. Your con­ver­sa­tion part­ner can play the audio direct­ly in the chat.

  1. Click / tap on the plus sym­bol in the text input field
  2. Choose ‘Audio
  3. Choose any exist­ing audio-file from your device
  4. Send it to your chat-bud­dy

💡 Unfor­tu­nate­ly, it is not yet pos­si­ble to make an audio record­ing direct­ly from the chat. But we will sure­ly add this pos­si­bil­i­ty.

The image shows the Messenger of Get More Brain. When you upload an audio-file you will see a preview.
Upload and pre-hear your audio-files.

Add documents

You can insert any doc­u­ment in your con­ver­sa­tion. Get More Brain can han­dle all com­mon types of doc­u­ments. You can use PDFs, Office files or any doc­u­ment for which you have installed the appro­pri­ate app.

💡 Be care­ful when send­ing large doc­u­ments. It’s bet­ter to work with cloud stor­age and send only the cor­re­spond­ing link to the doc­u­ment in the chat.

see https://youtu.be/MHW7zgNK1pY

The image shows the Messenger of Get More Brain. You can insert any document in your conversation.
You can insert any doc­u­ment in your con­ver­sa­tion.

Paste and Send Bit

If you have copied a mes­sage from anoth­er con­ver­sa­tion, you can paste it here and send it to your cur­rent chat part­ner.

Send basket

If you have copied mul­ti­ple bits or mes­sages from anoth­er con­ver­sa­tion, you can paste them here and send it to your cur­rent chat part­ner.

Emoji

You can spice up your con­ver­sa­tions with emo­jis. Choose one or more appro­pri­ate emo­jis to empha­size your mes­sages.

  1. Click / tap on the plus sym­bol in the text input field
  2. Choose ‘Emo­ji
  3. Insert one or mul­ti­ple emo­jis
The image shows the Messenger of Get More Brain. You can insert emojis in your conversation.
Spice up your con­ver­sa­tions with emo­jis.

Working with messages

Reply

You can reply to a mes­sage and con­tin­ue the con­ver­sa­tion at any time. It makes a dif­fer­ence whether you sim­ply type a new mes­sage or use the ‘Reply’ com­mand from the dot menu.

  1. If you reply in the text box at the bot­tom of the screen, the con­ver­sa­tion con­tin­ues at the top lev­el.
  2. If you use the ‘Reply’ com­mand, you reply specif­i­cal­ly to the cur­rent mes­sage. This will open a new thread in the con­ver­sa­tion, where you can dis­cuss specif­i­cal­ly the cur­rent top­ic.
The image shows the Messenger of Get More Brain. You can reply on specific messages to open a thread.
You can reply on spe­cif­ic mes­sages to open a thread.

Send

For­ward a mes­sage to some­one else. You can choose the recip­i­ent from your list of con­tacts. This fea­ture is espe­cial­ly use­ful when you want to for­ward videos, pho­tos, audios, doc­u­ments or quizzes.

see https://youtu.be/1EtjHUwP-ko

The image shows the Messenger of Get More Brain. You can forward any message to anybody on your contacts list.
For­ward a mes­sage to your con­tacts.

Save to Notebook…

Save any mes­sage to one of your note­books. This fea­ture is espe­cial­ly use­ful when you want to save videos, pho­tos, audios, doc­u­ments or quizzes. Once they’re in your note­book, you can always refer back to them.

see https://youtu.be/biF2xgQt3FI

Add to Basket

If you want to for­ward or save sev­er­al mes­sages at once, you can use the Bas­ket. The Bas­ket works like a clip­board and allows you to copy mul­ti­ple objects in one go.

see https://youtu.be/M‑54tVF3EhI

The image shows the Messenger of Get More Brain on a smartphone. The Basket feature lets you pick up multiple messages and bits on a conversation and paste them all into another chat. The Basket works like the clipboard on your device.
The Bas­ket lets you copy mul­ti­ple bits and paste them into anoth­er con­ver­sa­tion.

Copy

With Get More Brain, it’s easy to share good learn­ing con­tent with oth­ers. Just copy/paste it from one con­ver­sa­tion to anoth­er.

see https://youtu.be/kgIDy7aKtVI

Delete

Some­times it just hap­pens: you send the wrong mes­sage to the wrong per­son. No wor­ries: delete it as if it nev­er hap­pened.

see https://youtu.be/seRiFlPCGV8

Working with conversations

Start a conversation

It’s super easy to start a con­ver­sa­tion with one of your con­tacts.

  1. Start in your con­tact list and click / tap on a name.
  2. The mes­sen­ger will open with the lat­est mes­sage of your con­ver­sa­tion.
  3. Type a mes­sage in the text field at the bot­tom of the screen.

💡 You can use the dic­ta­tion fea­ture of your smart­phone instead of typ­ing your mes­sage.

Browse the history

If you have a con­ver­sa­tion open in Mes­sen­ger, you will see all past mes­sages by scrolling up and down.

  1. By default, you see the lat­est mes­sage at the bot­tom of the con­ver­sa­tion.
  2. Scroll / swipe up and down to see more mes­sages.
  3. Look out for the time stamps on every mes­sage.

Reading status

Do you want to know whether the oth­er per­son has already read a mes­sage or not? Just check the sta­tus on each mes­sage. The time­stamp shows you the chronol­o­gy of all mes­sages.

The image shows a message in the Messenger of Get More Brain: The status icon - a grey clock - indicates that the message is being sent.
This mes­sage is being sent.
The image shows a message in the Messenger of Get More Brain: The gray status icon indicates that the message has been delivered but was not read yet.
This mes­sage has been deliv­ered but was not read yet.
The image shows a message in the Messenger of Get More Brain: The blue status icon indicates that the message is read.
This mes­sage has been read.

Search for messages (coming soon)

If your con­ver­sa­tion already includes quite a few mes­sages, then it can be dif­fi­cult to find a spe­cif­ic mes­sage. Our search func­tion takes you quick­ly to the right place.

  1. Click / tap the search but­ton at the top.
  2. Type in a key­word
  3. Click / tap Return on your key­board

💡 By default, your search will start in the active con­ver­sa­tion. By check­ing the box ‘All Users’ you can open your search to all your con­ver­sa­tion with oth­er users.

Mark all messages as read

If you receive many mes­sages at once, and you have read them, you can mark them all as read with one click / tab.

see https://youtu.be/brAwVGX3AXU

  1. Open an exist­ing con­ver­sa­tion
  2. Click / tab on the dot menu in the upper right
  3. In the menu, choose ‘Mark all mes­sages as read’.

Delete chat

  1. Open an exist­ing con­ver­sa­tion
  2. Click / tab on the dot menu in the upper right
  3. In the menu, choose ‘Delete chat

Block user

  1. Open an exist­ing con­ver­sa­tion
  2. Click / tab on the dot menu in the upper right
  3. In the menu, choose ‘Block user
The image shows the Messenger of Get More Brain. In the dot menu you can mark all messages as read, delete the chat or block specific users
The dot menu: Mark all mes­sages as read, delete chats, block users.

Frequently asked questions