If we look back in time to the origins of TransLucid, I think we find
that the idea and motivation for it came from the desire of many people
on the Personal Brain Yahoo list to find a way to export a brain to a
website. Copyright issues seemed to rule out the use of anything
resembling the Brain's plex, despite various musings about TouchGraph.

But now that Personal Brain 4 is in Beta, and provides the capability of
creating a SiteBrain with a plex interface, I wonder if it might not be
a good idea to consider how TransLucid can integrate with rather than be
an alternative to the PB SiteBrain.

To oversimplify a bit, the primary advantages of TransLucid over an
ordinary website with sidebar menu are
a. Its preserving the Jump feature of PB.
b. Its online editability

The SiteBrain export can produce either the animated version or a
simple HTML export which superficially resembles the TYransLucid
layout. But neither export is editable by users, which seems to rule
out collaborative Brainwork.

But it is perfectly possible to have a link in a SiteBrain which
displays, in the content window below, a TransLucid page, which could
be the TL version of the same original brain. Thus editing capacity
would be immediately available within a SiteBrain, and one would have
the best of both worlds. You can get an idea of how this would look at
this page, which displays a SimpleHTML export in a window of a
SiteBrain. Imagine replacing that with a TransLucid page.
http://floatingworldweb.com/plex/#-2507

For this to work, it would have to be easy to transfer the edited TL
database back to PB4 for integration with the original and re-export to
the SiteBrain.

I would suggest that the programming team give siome consideration to
this notion, which implies that the synchronisation-with-PB4
capabilities might move higher on the list of priorities. It seems to
me at least as important as MindManager compatibility, and that if by
the time PB4 is out of Beta it is done, TransLucid will be seen as
extending PB's capabilities, rather than as lacking some of them....

Please excuse any apparent presumption in my proposing policy that may
be very different from current thinking...

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