Messenger

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Frequently asked questions