Workspace

About the Workspace

The Work­space con­tains your per­son­al Note­books. 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.

The image shows the Workspace of Get More Brain with your personal Notebooks. You can create your own Notebooks, upload a PDF or use the Basket to collect multiple items.
You can cre­ate your own Note­books, upload a PDF or use the Bas­ket to col­lect mul­ti­ple Bits.

Edit a Notebook

Create a Notebook

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

  1. Click / tap on the Plus-Sign in the bot­tom-right cor­ner of the Work­space
  2. Choose “Note­book” from the menu
  3. Change the name of the new note­book
The image shows the Workspace of Get More Brain with your personal Notebooks. Add a new Notebook by clicking on the Plus-Sign.
Add a new Note­book by click­ing on the Plus-Sign.

Change the name

You can change the name of a note­book at any time:

  1. Click / tap on the dot-menu in the bot­tom-right cor­ner of a note­book
  2. Choose “Rename”
  3. Type in a new name and hit the Return-Key

Remove / add a cover

You can change the cov­er of a note­book at any time:

  1. Click / tap on the dot-menu in the bot­tom-right cor­ner of a note­book
  2. Choose “Set Cov­er…” if you want to change the gener­ic cov­er
  3. Choose “Remove Cov­er” if you would like to change it. 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 has the dimen­sions 700 x 1000px.

Change the cov­er of any note­book to fit your per­son­al gus­to.

More Options

The dot menu 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 “Delete” to remove a note­book. Be aware that it’s gone for­ev­er after delet­ing it.
The image shows the Workspace of Get More Brain with your personal Notebooks. Use the Dot Menu to open, duplicate, rename or delete a Notebook. You can change the Cover as well.
Use the Dot Menu to open, dupli­cate, rename or delete a Note­book.

Add content to your Notebooks

The Power of Bits

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

You can use these indi­vid­ual Bits for learn­ing. You can copy them into a note­book and add your per­son­al notes. You can also share the Bits with your con­tacts and work togeth­er on the Bits in the Mes­sen­ger.

If you down­load a title from the Acad­e­my and read it in the Library, you can use indi­vid­ual text pas­sages, images, videos or quizzes as Bits.

If you copy a Bit to a note­book, you can add your own con­tent and notes to it. These notes are also saved as Bits, so you can share your con­tent with oth­ers as well.

Structure your Notes

Since a note­book can hold an infi­nite amount of con­tent, it makes sense to orga­nize it. You have the option to cre­ate chap­ters, which are used to dis­play the inter­ac­tive table of con­tents.

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

The image shows the Workspace of Get More Brain with your personal Notebooks. You can add multiple chapters to your notebooks to build a structured Table of Contents TOC.
You can add mul­ti­ple chap­ters to your note­books to build a struc­tured Table of Con­tents TOC.

To divide the con­tent into hier­ar­chi­cal sec­tions, you can choose a Lev­el for each chap­ter:

  • The top Lev­el is 1.
  • Lev­els 2, 3, etc. are sub­or­di­nat­ed
The image shows the Workspace of Get More Brain with your personal Notebooks. You can add multiple chapters to your notebooks to build a structured Table of Contents TOC.

To add a new chap­ter:

  1. Click / tap the Plus-But­ton and choose “Add Chap­ter”.
  2. Choose the right Lev­el.
  3. You can change the lev­el of a Chap­ter at any time by click­ing on the title.

Add Bits

Your own notes and anno­ta­tions are stored in Get More Brain as indi­vid­ual Bits, just like all con­tent. This makes it pos­si­ble to share your notes in the Mes­sen­ger or eas­i­ly move indi­vid­ual parts of your notes back and forth between Note­books.

To add a new Bit to your notes, you sim­ply click / tap the Plus-Sign and choose “Add”.

The image shows the Workspace of Get More Brain with your personal Notebooks. You can structure your Notebook and add your own Bits.
You can add your own notes as Bits.

Add Notes

When click­ing / tap­ping on the Plus-Sign you can add dif­fer­ent Bits to your Note­book. Most of the Bits are self-explana­to­ry. As an exam­ple let’s have a clos­er look at the pos­si­bil­i­ties of the Notes-Bit, which in most cas­es helps you to cap­ture your con­tent.

Use dif­fer­ent struc­tures, titles and for­mats to cre­ate rich notes.

Use the label-menu for quick options

When you add a notes-bit to your note­book, a col­ored area appears where you can paste text. As soon as you start writ­ing, you’ll see a text-label on the right of the cur­rent sec­tion. Click on the label to change the func­tion of the sec­tion. Every sec­tion can be:

  • a title to start a 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 sec­tion.

⚠️ You will see these label menus quite often when work­ing in a note­book. These menus give you access to the most impor­tant options for a select­ed object. For exam­ple: When you insert an image, the label menu gives you the option to align the image or make it zoomable.

The image shows the Workspace of Get More Brain with your personal Notebooks. Structure your Notes with different titles.
Struc­ture your Notes with dif­fer­ent sec­tions.

Use the context menu for formatting

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.

The image shows the Workspace of Get More Brain with your personal Notebooks. There are plenty of options to format your Notes.
There are plen­ty of options to for­mat your Notes.

If you click / tap on the tree dots in the con­text menu, you get even more options to for­mat your text:

  • make it a title (as in the label-menu)
  • make it a sub­ti­tle (as in the label-menu)
  • use it as plain text (as in the label-menu)
  • make a list
  • con­vert the text to code
  • insert a math­e­mat­i­cal for­mu­la (with a spe­cial edi­tor)
  • con­vert the text to a click­able link
  • insert an image from your device
  • add a sec­tion with a dif­fer­ent back­ground
  • use sub­script
  • use super­script
The image shows the Workspace of Get More Brain with your personal Notebooks. There are plenty of options to create rich notes with images, links and formulas.
There are plen­ty of options to cre­ate rich notes with images, links and for­mu­las.

Working with your Bits

Besides the label-menu and the con­text menu, you will find a third menu in the notes-bit. Actu­al­ly, you will find a dot-menu in the upper-right cor­ner of every bit, where you can find dif­fer­ent pos­si­bil­i­ties to work with a bit.

The image shows the Workspace of Get More Brain with your personal Notebooks. You can edit all your own bits, add bookmarks and annotations or send it to your Contacts.
You can edit all your own bits, add book­marks and anno­ta­tions or send it to your Con­tacts.
  • 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.
  • Delete: delete the cur­rent Bit

Upload PDFs

While you can add your per­son­al notes Bit by Bit, upload­ing a PDF is a good start­ing point to con­tin­ue the work on a note­book. Cre­ate a PDF from an exist­ing con­tent and cre­ate a new note­book with it.

Gen­er­ate and upload PDFs from:

  • Text doc­u­ments: Microsoft Word, Google Docs, Pages, …
  • Slideshows: Microsoft Pow­er­Point, Google Slides, Keynote, …
  • Graph­ics: Pho­to­shop, Illus­tra­tor, Can­va, …
  • InDe­sign, Affin­i­ty Design­er, …
  • Notion, Obsid­i­an, Roam, OneNote, …
  • Web­pages
  • Emails, Mes­sages
  • Slack-Con­ver­sa­tions

Just drop a PDF on the “Upload PDF”-field or click / tap on the field to choose a PDF from your device. Get More Brain con­verts the PDF into a new Bit-based note­book, which you can enrich with your own notes and oth­er Bits.

Upload a PDF cre­at­ed from MS Word, InDe­sign, Google Docs or any oth­er tool.

Check your current basket

In addi­tion to your note­books, you will also find the ref­er­ence to your cur­rent bas­ket in the Work­space. Click / tap on the bas­ket icon to see all Bits that are cur­rent­ly in your bas­ket.

Search

Of course, you can search your work­space for con­tent. Enter a search term in the dia­log box. Get More Brain shows you all match­ing con­tent in your note­books.

The image shows the Workspace of Get More Brain with your personal Notebooks. Search all your Notebooks to find specific content in a blast.
Search all your Note­books to find spe­cif­ic con­tent in a blast.