Workspace

The Workspace contains your personal notes. You can create as many notebooks as you want. In a Notebook, you can collect different Bits from your Learning Content or create your own Bits. You can write down notes, insert links, upload videos and photos or create your own quizzes.

In your Workspace you see all your notebooks. At the top you find the ones you used recently. By clicking on the dotmenu of a notebook, you can hide it from the “recently used”-section.

The power of notebooks

Personal notebooks are crucial for learning because they provide a place to record and organise your thoughts, ideas and insights.

By jotting down important information and observations, you can actively engage with content and deepen your understanding.

Notebooks also serve as a reference book. You can go through your notes again and check them. This consolidates your knowledge.

Overall, personal notebooks are a valuable resource for capturing knowledge, promoting reflection and supporting effective learning.

In Get More Brain you can currently create 2 types of “notebooks”:

• a notebook; collect content from your → library, add your own content or write down your personal thoughts
• an article; write an article on a specific topic.

Create a Notebook

In Get More Brain it is super easy to create a new notebook:

1. Click / tap on the Plus-Icon in the bottom-right corner of your Workspace
2. Choose ‘Notebook’ from the menu
3. Change the name of the new notebook

Rename a notebook

You can rename a notebook at any time:

1. Click / tap on the dotmenu in the bottom-right corner of a notebook
2. Choose “Rename”
3. Type in a new name and confirm it.

Change the cover of a Notebook

Change the cover of any notebook to fit your personal style:

1. Click / tap on the dotmenu in the bottom-right corner of a notebook
2. Choose “Upload Custom Cover…” if you want to change the generic cover
3. Choose “Remove Custom Cover” if you want to go back to the generic cover. Repeat step 2 to set a new cover.

You can use an existing image as a cover or create your own cover using Photoshop, Canva or another app. For optimal display, the image should have the dimensions 700 x 1000px.

Hint: Instead of a static image you can use animated GIFs as a cover. Go to giphy.com to search and download creative animations.

Cover Styles

By default every notebook has a generic cover, automatically built from it’s name. When you upload a custom cover to a notebook you can change the style how it’s displayed. Click the dotmenu an choose one of the “Cover Style”-Options.

Generic Cover

Image on Cover

Your uploaded image is part of a generic bookframe.

Image fills Cover

Your uploaded image fills a generic bookframe.

Custom Cover

The cover is displayed in the exact dimensions of the uploaded file. If you upload a GIF or PNG with transparency, the cover blends into the background of your Workspace.

More Options

The dotmenu of each notebook offers you the following options:

1. Choose “Open” to open the notebook. Alternatively, you can just double-click it.
2. Choose “Duplicate” to make a copy of your notebook
3. Choose “Move to Bin” to remove a notebook.

Add content to a notebook

Have you read something important in your → Library? Have you watched a video or seen an important illustration in one of your books? Did you have an important conversation with one of your study partners?

Simply save content and messages in one of your notebooks. That way, you can always remember them.

You can also add your own content to the notebooks. Blog posts, scans, photos, documents, YouTube videos, podcasts, … You can write your own essays, create lists, review your tasks or even collect your most important recipes.

A notebook in Get More Brain is the best place to build your Second Brain.

💡 If you have a lot of content in a notebook, you can use the magic button in the bottom right-hand corner to quickly scroll to the end or beginning of your notebook.

The Power of Bits

Get More Brain has a special feature: all content is built from so-called Bits.

All content is structured and broken down into small modules. Each section of text, each image, each video, each quiz is a separate unit that makes it easier for you to learn, annotate and save the content.

• Save any bit in one of your notebooks
• Send any bit to one of your contacts.
• Quickly translate individual bits into any language.
• Add annotations and notes to any bit. Your own content automatically is stored as individual bits which can be treated the same as the content in your → Library.
• Send quizzes to someone who can then edit and analyse the questions directly in the → Messenger.
• In cookery books, there are recipe bits in which you can convert the quantity of ingredients according to the number of guests.
• …

See more about the concept of bits and the technology called bitmark.

Structure your notes

As a notebook can hold an infinite amount of content, it makes sense to structure the content. You have the option of creating chapters that are automatically used to display the interactive table of contents.

To divide the content into hierarchical sections, you can select a level for each chapter:

• The top level is 1.
• Levels 2, 3, etc. are subordinate

To add a new chapter:

1. click / tap on the plus button and select “Add Chapter”.
2. select the desired level.
3. you can change the level of a chapter at any time by clicking on the title.

💡 Keep the chapter names short! This ensures that they are easy to read in the table of contents, even on small screens.

Add bits to a notebook

Your own notes and annotations are saved as individual bits in Get More Brain, just like all other content. This allows you to share your notes in → Messenger or easily move individual parts of your notes back and forth between notebooks.

How to add a new bit in a notebook:

• Scroll to the location where you want to add content.
• Click / tap on one of the dot menus in the middle of the content column.
  • Select the dot menu above a piece of content to insert a new bit above it
  • Select the dot menu below an existing bit to insert new content below it.
• In the menu, you find various options to create content
• Select “Add” to add notes, texts or quotes.

💡 If you want to get to know the different types of bits, add a → “Example Notes”. You can customize the content and simply delete parts you don’t need.

Add a sample note

If you click/tap on the dot menu in the middle of the content column, you can import “Example Notes” under “Add”. This helps you to get to know different bits and their formatting options. You can use the inserted content as a starting point and change it as you wish. You can simply delete bits that you don’t need.

💡 Get to know different structures, titles and formats that you can change via the → context menu or the → labels. This works only in a Desktop Browser.

Use Label-Menus to quickly change options

When you add a bit to your notebook, you’ll see a text-label on the right of the active selection. Click on the label to quickly change some options. Here are some examples

Text

When you insert a note you can change every paragraph to:

• a title to start the new note.
• a subtitle to further organize the note.
• a simple text to write down your ideas.

As a fourth option in the label-menu, you can delete the active paragraph.

Lists

When working with list you can change the type of the list or the indent of a list-item.

Images

When you insert an image, the label menu gives you the option to align the image or make it zoomable.

💡 Use CTRL-Z (Windows) or CMD-Z (Mac) to undo a change or restore some content you deleted by mistake

Use the context menu

Formatting existing content

As you select a specific word, sentence or paragraph, a context menu appears. You can use this menu to format your text:

• bold
• italic
• light
• strike-through
• highlight
• … more options (see below)

💡 The eraser-icon removes any formatting of the selected text.

Working with your bits

In addition to the → Label menu and the → Context menu, there is a third menu in your content. In the top right-hand corner of each bit, you will find a dot menu with various actions that you can use to work with a bit.

• Add to basket: the → basket helps you collect multiple Bits. Think of it as an internal clipboard. In the Messenger, you can send all Bits of your current basket to one of your contacts. Or you can drop all Bits of your Basket in any notebook.
• Send…: sends the current bit to one of your contacts
• Save to another Notebook…: this creates a copy of the current bit and drops it in another notebook. You can select an existing notebook or create a new one on the fly.
• Add Bookmark: add a bookmark to get back to the current Bit.
• Add Favorite: mark the current Bit as a Favorite.
• Add Note: add a comment to the current Bit.
• Add Scribble: add a handwritten note to the current Bit
• Copy: copy the current Bit to the clipboard to paste it on another location
• Cut: cut the current Bit to the clipboard to paste it on another location
• Copy Link to this Bit: instead of copying the Bit you can copy the link to the current bit. Send this link to anybody in an email, a message, a Social Media-Post or a Slack-Notification. Anybody who knows the link can access your current Bit in Get More Brain.
• Translate: → translate a specific bit in any language.
• Move to Bin: delete the current Bit

💡 If you delete a bit without content, it does not go to the bin but is removed immediately.

Import existing content

There are various ways to import existing content into a notebook in Get More Brain.

Paste

Of course, you can import content via your device’s clipboard. If you copy content in the browser or in another app, you can simply add it to your notebook via “Paste”. Get More Brain tries to adopt the structure of the pasted content and convert it into meaningful bits.

Paste special…

Get More Brain supports selected apps with special import routines. Currently you can import content from Quizlet or Scribe. The list of supported apps is constantly being expanded. If you would like support for specific apps, please contact us.

Upload PDF

You can upload and import → PDFs from your device. The contents of the PDF are converted into bits

Add media

If you want to add media to a notebook, you can use the “Add text” option

1. click / tap on the plus symbol and select “Add” – “Add Text”
2. open the dot menu and select “Show hidden Fields…”

💡 You can enter additional information about your bit in the hidden fields.

You get various tiles with which you can add media files.

Click / tap on the desired tile to use the following options.

Add video

• Record a video with your device and upload it
• Upload an existing video from your device
• Add a video from Youtube, Vimeo, … …

Add audio

• Create a voice recording and upload it
• Upload an existing audio file from your device

Add image

• Upload an existing image from your device
• Link an image from a cloud storage

Add a document

• Upload an existing file from your device
• Link a file from a cloud storage

Add a link to a website

• Insert a URL and link to a website

Upload a PDF

While you can add your personal notes bit by bit, sometimes it’s easier to upload an existing PDF.

PDFs can be created from almost all apps:

• Text documents: Microsoft Word, Google Docs, Pages, …
• Presentations: Microsoft PowerPoint, Google Slides, Keynote, …
• Images, illustrations: Photoshop, Illustrator, Canva, …
• Layouts: InDesign, Affinity Designer, …
• Notes: Notion, Obsidian, Roam, OneNote, …
• Websites via a browser
• Emails, messages
• Chat histories from Teams, Slack, WhatsApp, …
• …

Search for your notes

You can search your workspace for content. Start the search at the top right using the magnifying glass icon. Enter a search term. Get More Brain will show you all matching content of your notebooks.

You can also use advanced → search operators when entering the search term.

There is a small filter icon next to the search field. You can use this button to narrow down your search results to specific assets such as texts, images or messages.

Use the basket

Copy multiple bits

If you want to copy not just one, but several bits of your notebook, Get More Brain has a handy function for this: the basket.

1. go to the dot menu of a bit
2. select “Add to basket”.
3. go to another bit and repeat the steps

In this way, you can save any number of individual bits in the basket, a kind of clipboard. The bits are saved one after the other. You can also merge bits from different learning content in the basket.

💡 You can add all bits of a notebook to the basket by clicking or tapping on the small dot menu to the left of the magnifying glass in the top right-hand corner of your Workspace.

Working with bits in a basket

Open your basket by clicking / tapping on the icon with the number in the top right corner of your workspace. From there you can check all current bits in your basket.

You can remove unnecessary bits by clicking or tapping on the dot menu of a bit.

Click / tap on the three dots in the top right corner for the following actions:

• Send all: send all bits to one of your contacts
• Save all: save all bits in one of your notebooks
• Empty Basket: remove all bits from the basket

Use the table of contents

💡 The table of contents of your notebook works in the same way as the → directory in the reader.

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

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.

Summarize content with AI

Get More Brain contains some clever AI functions. In a notebook you can summarize content with ChatGPT. Click / tap on a dot menu in the center of the content column. Select “ChatGPT” and one of the following actions:

• Generate Summary for this Chapter
• Generate Summary for this Book

Now select the language in which the summary should be generated. The result is added to your notebook. Edit and use the summary as you would any other content.

Generate quizzes with AI

With ChatGPT you can create quizzes with one click. You can use this function in your notebooks to create engaging quizzes from your content. You can send the quizzes to your contacts and discuss their answers in Messenger. You have 2 options when creating quizzes:

• Generate summary for this chapter
• Generate summary for this book

Now select the language in which the result should be generated. Get More Brain creates 5 quizzes that are inserted into your notebook. Edit and use the results as you would any other content.

Translate content

Get More Brain makes learning content quickly and easily accessible. However, the language barrier is often a major obstacle to starting to learn. That’s why you can easily translate content into any language.

• Click / tap the dot menu of a content
• Select “Translate…”
• Select the language into which the content should be translated

The translated content is inserted directly into your notebook and you can continue working with it.