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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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”.

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 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.

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.

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

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.

• 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.

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.