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the Integrated Learning Environment for higher-order thinking
brain·ful
adj.The deliberate act of intellectual engagement with qualia—the totality of conscious experience derived from the synthesis of internal and external stimuli, to cultivate heightened cognitive clarity of oneself and the world.
Enabling the cognitive processes of visionaries, from idea to innovation.
brainful AI is pushing the needle in the realm of integrated learning environments to maximise the potential of human ingenuity by minimising friction and improving quality of thought and output in academic and professional knowledge based workflows.
By combining a dynamic hypermedia environment with an advanced AI system, brainful facilitates a novel approach to knowledge acquisition and synthesis. This approach, informed by research in cognitive science, philosophy, and education, empowers learners to develop higher-order thinking skills essential for navigating the complexities of the 21st century.
Blocks
The building blocks of brainful. Blocks are proprietary abstract data types that encapsulate discrete units of knowledge through linguistic expressions. They serve as dynamic repositories of information, subject to ongoing refinement and development.
Example: A block might contain a quote, a fact, or a personal observation that can evolve as your understanding grows.
BlockReferences
Immutable, non-editable constructs that transcend purely linguistic representation. They embody a synthesis of visual and sensory elements, engaging perceptual faculties. When blocks reach completion, they can be elevated to blockreferences, serving as foundational elements for new knowledge.
Example: A link to a webpage, a book citation, or a reference to another note that serves as a verified source of truth.
Entities
The organizational backbone of brainful. Entities help create meaningful connections between related blocks and blockreferences, enabling a structured approach to knowledge management. They act as semantic markers that help build contextual relationships across your knowledge base.
Example: Use #work for professional content or #recipe for culinary knowledge, creating intuitive knowledge clusters.
BlockSpaces
Dynamic workspaces that serve as the foundation for knowledge creation and organization. Blockspaces provide dedicated environments where you can create, edit, and organize your blocks and blockreferences, facilitating the natural progression of knowledge development.
Example: Create separate blockspaces for "Work Projects" and "Personal Journal" to maintain clear contextual boundaries.
Create and traverse your networked knowledge graph.
Your links using the multidirectional relationship model allows you and brainful AI to create and traverse your networked knowledge graph. This helps formulate connections between seemingly disparate ideas, and helps AI to explore new ideas or extensions of your existing knowledge.
An AI that can feel, reason, and act.
brainful AI does not just respond based on input, it can fully understand the context of your conversation. It dynamically assesses the context of your conversation in relation to your identity, goals, data, and environment. Now with real time internet access, it can provide consistent, high quality, and relevant responses.
Functional Features
brainful aims to cover a vast number of needs across the knowledge lifecycle, from storing knowledge, creating a knowledge graph for analysis and AI insights, generating citations, performing knowledge retrieval, and producing documents.
formatting
We built a brainful-flavoured markdown editor, which is an extension of the widely adopted regular markdown syntax, with the full benefits of the native webpage HTML format. This enables deep customisation as seen in Microsoft Word or Google Docs, and enables direct support for visualising block, blockreference, and entity relationships made in text.
collaboration
We support sharing your blocks (documents) with other users. They can view changes and make edits visible in real time across the team.
actions
A wide variety of actions are provided when selecting content from the editor, such as inserting special characters, formatting, web search shortcuts, and AI shortcuts to quickly give the assistant context for a query.
storage
The foundation of your knowledge is in a variety of multimedia formats siloed in a variety of storage formats and spaces.
We provide an all-encompassing storage solution that allows you to store any non-editable (structured) data as block references, meanwhile unstructured data stored as blocks. We currently support 6 media formats for block references: images, code files, audio, video, docs (.pdf, .docx, .pptx), and web links.
retrieval
Search is often underlooked, but it plays a fundamental role when requiring information.
We acknowledge two dimensions of reference for search: the background context and reasoning of the query in relation to your working environment (blockspace), and the semantic meaning of the query in relation to the meaning of the blocks you are working with. Our search engine is one of the most comprehensive and diverse, enabling search across all of your data and data shared with you (blocks and block references), across raw text, fuzzy text, semantic (vector) meaning, entity meaning, and geospatial relations.
transformation
Converting media formats is a common task in knowledge management for data storage and retrieval purposes, submission requirements, and data science applications.
We support easy transformation of data formats from one to another, making cross-media imports and exports seamless. This means all media formats from block references can be transformed into any other media format, such as webpages to text, or video to transcript, allowing for cross-media insights using AI. Your blocks, can be exported as PDFs or its native HTML format.
The most secure personal knowledge management platform
We offer the most comprehensive suite of safeguards against modern cybersecurity threats to ensure platform stability and data security, as well as user tools to ensure maximum account security.
Platform Security
We have a range of guardrails and active continuous threat monitoring systems in place at the network, infrastructure, and app level to protect against modern cybersecurity threats such as DDoS, malware, and hacking attacks.
Account Security
We fully comply with the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) agency's cybersecurity framework, ensuring your account is secure under the highest authenticator assurance level (AAL3) standard, synonymous with the highest level of security found in banking and government.
Data Security
Your data is stored securely using Google Cloud Platform (GCP) infrastructure. All user data is encrypted in transit and at rest. We store continuous backups of your data in geographically separate locations.
Your keys, your data
For the most sensitive user data, we introduced a zero-knowledge data storage type in the form of vault blocks. Vault blocks offer unparalleled protection. They are geographically binding, end-to-end encrypted blocks encrypted in transit and encrypted twice at rest, with no trace being recorded anywhere or accessed by any third party, including us. This guarantees that even in the unlikely circumstance of GCP or brainful being compromised, your data will remain encrypted.
Experience Unparalleled Performance
We are explicitly keen on accepting individuals with demanding knowledge workflows.
If you are a high-performing individual, demonstrate evidence of exceptional academic or professional achievement and a short description of your workflow. We will review your request and get back to you in due course.
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