Brainer Research & Bookmark

Save, organize and comment links, photos, citations, prices, addresses. Collaborate in real-time.

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Brainer Research & Bookmark is a versatile Chrome extension designed to save, organize, and annotate links, photos, citations, prices, addresses, and more. With intuitive drag & drop functionality and built-in screenshot capture, it streamlines your research process. Collaborate with friends or colleagues in real-time and share your findings via shareable links. Ideal for trip planning, product comparisons, academic research, or hobby collection, Brainer also allows exporting your organized materials to Word documents.

Recent updates improved security by reducing permissions, fixed loading issues, enabled usage without cookies, and enhanced parsing of emails, phone numbers, and programming code. Completely free and user-friendly, Brainer offers an efficient way to manage and collaborate on diverse research projects.

By:: https://brainer.app
Users:: 1,000+
Rating:: 4.84
(51)
Version:: 2.2.0 (Last updated: 2021-06-02)
Creation date:: 2018-08-16
Risk:: Moderate risk impact Low risk likelihood
Permissions:: storage
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Size:: 128.00K
Email:: co*****@brainer.app
URLs:: Website
Full description:: See detailed description
Source:: Chrome Web Store
Updated:: 16 hours ago

Ranking

# 22,874 ▲ 7

Other rankings

#4182 in Workflow & Planning ▼ 16 #20 in research keyword 29 ▲ 12 #114 in bookmark keyword 37 ▲ 28

User reviews

Brainer Research & Bookmark is praised for its ease of use, versatility in note-taking, reliable performance, and cost-free nature, making it a favored research tool. Users appreciate its integration with major productivity platforms. However, common issues include a lack of recent updates, missing advanced text formatting and search features, occasional website compatibility problems, and limited availability beyond Chrome, with many requesting updates, Android support, and Firefox versions.

Pros

Easy to use and user-friendly interface
Versatile note-taking and research tool supporting various content types (text, links, images, videos)
Reliable and consistent performance
Free of charge and a great alternative to other paid tools
Integrates well with platforms like Notion, Google Drive, and Microsoft products

Cons

Lack of updates and appears abandoned for over two years
Missing advanced text formatting features like bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, superscript, and subscript
No search functionality across all notes, limiting keyword findability
Compatibility issues with some websites (e.g., 9anime.to) and with extensions like Dark Reader
Limited cross-platform support; users request Android and Firefox versions

Recent reviews

Seriously, Brainer is THE best extension for note-taking and research (and I am VERY picky about my note-taking apps/extensions). Just try it....

Zoe Kritikos, 2024-05-04

La meilleur applicaiton de 2024 que j'ai eu a utiliser , je la recommande vivement a tous. S'est un super extension , super facile a prendre en main tout y est génial

Zabs MMSHI (Oholiab), 2024-02-06

Useful + Reliable Does what it is designed for consistently! Clever tool and very handy. Well done!

Dan Salupo, 2024-01-22

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Extension safety

Risk impact

Brainer Research & Bookmark requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk impact analysis details

Critical Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
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Risk likelihood

Brainer Research & Bookmark has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

Risk likelihood analysis details

High This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.
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