Your guide to using braintrust
How does braintrust work?
Every day, you will receive a notification from braintrust to complete 3 questions that the app determines as important for you or your care recipient to review that day.
- Open the braintrust app and get started!
- Open the braintrust app and get started!For every question you answer correctly, you earn a point!
Once you finish reviewing the 3 questions for the day, you or your care recipient will be prompted to do additional tasks with braintrust that will help advance progress in your memory journey.
Tip: To get the most out of using braintrust, make sure you or your care recipient:
- Keep adding new questions to remember - we make it very easy to use braintrust like a library to help remember key things about your life.
- Do as many tasks as possible in a day - we’ll keep prompting you to do more tasks on our app and the more you do, the more braintrust can help you.
- Keep checking your progress - it’ll be exciting to see how you or your care recipient’s progress changes every week when using braintrust.
Back to ResourcesI just created an account...What I should do next?
After you create your account, it’s important that you do the following to unlock braintrust’s full potential.
Step 1: Add 3 questions
- After you create an account, the app will take you to the braintrust home screen. Here, the first thing you need to do is add 3 questions in braintrust that you never want to forget. Do this by clicking ‘Add 3 questions’ on the home screen.
- The app will then take you to the ‘Add question’ screen. Here you'll get a guided tour on how to add questions in braintrust. We recommend that you read the instructions carefully.
- Add your first question into braintrust. Because it can be difficult to come up with questions you want to remember on the spot, we offer a curated list of questions to get you started.To see these, click on the blue ‘See examples’ button on the top of the screen. To learn about other ways you can add questions in braintrust, refer to ‘How do I add questions’ section of this braintrust guide.
- Add your second question in braintrust.
- Add your third question in braintrust.
Well done, you’re half way through!
Step 2: Review 3 questions
- Once you’ve added your first 3 questions, you’ll be prompted to review them immediately so you can see the braintrust app in action. Click on the ‘Let’s start’ button to begin.
Congratulations! You’re all set up!
Tip: To get the most out of using braintrust, make sure you add more questions about your life after you finish step 2 so we can help you with your memory goals. Use braintrust like a diary to record all the things you never want to forget.
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Back to ResourcesHow do I add questions to braintrust?
You can add questions in 2 ways in braintrust.
Through ‘See examples’
Use this feature if you want to add a question from our curated question list.
- When you click ‘Add question’ on the Home screen, you’ll be directed to ‘Add question’ screen in braintrust
- At the top, click on the blue button called ‘See examples’.
- You’ll now see a list of curated questions. Click on the question you’d like to answer.
- Answer the question and click ‘Save’.
Through ‘Templates’
Use this feature if you want to create a custom question.
- When you click ‘Add question’ on the Home screen, you’ll be directed to ‘Add question’ screen in braintrust
- You’ll see a blank template on the screen. Enter a custom question that is personalized to your life.
- Answer the question and click ‘Save’.
- You can also use the arrow on the bottom to navigate to other templates that will prompt you to enter important names, dates, places and more.
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Back to ResourcesCan I add images of things I want to remember on braintrust?
Absolutely! To add an image you want to remember, simply do the following:
- From the Home screen, click ‘Add question’. You’ll see a blank template on the screen.
- Tap the camera icon on the top right.
- Either select a photo from your photo gallery, or take a photo of what you’d like to remember.
- Accompany the image with a question and answer for you to review.
- Click ‘Save’.
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Back to ResourcesHow do I delete and edit questions in braintrust?
To delete a question:
- From the Home screen, click ‘View questions’.
- You will see a list of questions you’ve added in braintrust. Click the question you’d like to delete.
- Confirm and click ‘Delete question’ at the bottom of the screen.
To edit a question:
- Currently, there is no way to edit a question in braintrust. We recommend that you delete the question you’d like to edit and add a new one.
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Back to ResourcesHow do I change my braintrust account password?
If you’ve created an account using your email, you can reset your account password by doing the following:
- Click ‘Settings’ in the bottom right of the app
- Click ‘Manage password’
- Enter old password
- Enter new password
- Click ‘Save changes’
Back to ResourcesHow do tasks work in braintrust?
After completing the three daily questions, you or your care recipient will be encouraged to engage further with braintrust through tasks. On your braintrust home screen, you’ll find that there’ll always be a new task for you to do on the braintrust app so you can grow in your memory journey. These tasks can be adding new questions, reviewing additional ones, or exploring a new topic of interest. The more tasks you accomplish each day, the more enriching your braintrust experience will be.
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