BrainTool - Go Beyond Bookmarks

BrainTool is the best Bookmark and Tabs Manager for your online life.

BrainTool - Advanced Bookmark & Tab Management

BrainTool - Go Beyond Bookmarks is a comprehensive Bookmark and Tabs Manager that organizes your online life. It allows you to efficiently manage bookmarks, web resources, notes, and tasks into a personal Topic hierarchy, control your browser with a powerful Topic Manager, and allocate workspace for focused productivity. With features like local file sync, Google Drive integration, and privacy control, it transforms your browser experience into a highly organized and user-friendly interface.
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Extension stats

Manifest V3
Users: 5,000+
Rating: 4.74
(264)
Version: 1.2.5 (Last updated: 2025-02-25)
Creation date: 2020-11-23
Permissions:
  • tabs
  • storage
  • tabGroups
  • webNavigation
  • bookmarks
  • sidePanel
Size: 331.78K
Full description: See detailed description

Other platforms

Not available on Android
Not available on Firefox
BrainTool - Go Beyond Bookmarks (v1.2.5)
1,886+ 4.70 (39)

User reviews

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Pros
  • Excellent tool for organizing bookmarks and sessions
  • Flexible functionality and easy interface
  • Supports import/export functionality and Orgmode
  • Minimal permissions and strong focus on user privacy
  • Responsive developer with commitment to updates
Cons
  • Can be buggy and unpolished
  • User Interface improvements needed (clunky design)
  • Confusion with existing tab groups in Chrome
  • Sync issues across browsers
  • Limited features in dark mode support
Most mentioned
  • Ability to save pages and tab groups for later
  • Easy organization of bookmarks using hierarchy
  • Integration with Orgmode
  • Developer responsiveness and frequent updates
  • Initial setup challenges and bugs
User reviews
has been an excellent tool for organizing my bookmarks and sessions. The best feature by far is that it can save pages, tab groups, or even entire session, super helpful for someone like me who is constantly racking up more and more tabs and loathes closing them until I've gotten around to them. "read later" or even groups of tabs on chrome start to fill up and get cluttered too quickly, Braintool lets me save the sessions to return to later without having to keep 100 tabs open, or have them mix into a giant pool of nonsense. The constant updates and new features keep moving it further and further into one of the best apps for chrome. Its flexible functionality and easy interface make it a must have on any machine I use.
by ethan nami, 2025-02-24

Has confused my existing Chrome groups mostly, seems to change groups continuouly. Really scary. Creates a lot of artificial groups for tabs that weren't in a group before. I admit I didnt study the user guide in depth but out of the box the behaviour is really completely unexxected. I like the usage of Orgmode markup a lot and thus gave it a try. I recommend to test this in a virtual machine so restoring would be easy.
by Der Rainer, 2025-02-22

I spent a lot of time setting this up. Now I cannot find any way to load the app? I can save (Can no longer save after rebooting computer) a bookmark but cannot add a category or find the main app anywhere. Does anyone know how to find it? I get this when clicking on the bookmark part: This site can’t be reached localhost refused to connect. Try: Checking the connection Checking the proxy and the firewall ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED What does this mean? What are the steps to do this? Are there step by step instructions or did I just loose everything and waste an entire week setting this up? I see ‘Error Authenticating’ while enabling GDrive Google uses what are called ‘third-party cookies’ to store account information and a popup to ask for your permission. Increasingly browsers default ot not allowing popups and cookies. You need to allow popups from accounts.google.com and braintool.org and allow cookies from accounts.google.com in your Chrome settings. Doing so and restarting BrainTool should solve the problem. (NB do not click the box titled ‘Including Third-party cookies on this site’.) Also, I cannot find any Google Drive File for BrainTool! This is so Frustrating, Thank you
by Love One Another, 2025-02-02
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Extension safety

Risk impact

BrainTool - Go Beyond Bookmarks requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk impact analysis details
  • Critical Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern.
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Risk likelihood

We don't have sufficient data to confidently determine the risk likelihood of BrainTool - Go Beyond Bookmarks. Use it at your own risk.

Risk likelihood analysis details
  • High This extension was recently updated in the past month. New updates may not be stable or safe.
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