BrainTool - Go Beyond Bookmarks
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Organize all your bookmarks, web resources and notes into a personal Topic hierarchy and control your browser with the BrainTool Topic Manager. Open and close browser tabs, windows and tab groups with a click or navigate using powerful keyboard commands. Capture links and notes while in context on a web page. Allocate each of your Topics to its own window or tab group for a focused workspace.
Tame your browser tabs, focus your attention and never be afraid to close a tab again!
Your BrainTool data is private, it's your personal information space that the BrainTool application reads from a plain text file completely under your control. It's written in the popular Org-Mode format and so can fit within any larger text-based workflow. Back it up, copy it, share it - it's just a text file that you own.
Import from bookmarks, Org files or Tabs Outliner, sync automatically to Google Drive or a local file. BrainTool is 100% browser based, so your data never leaves your control.
"Every Google Chrome user should try this...Bring your bookmarks into the 21st century" - ZDNet "I've used Session Buddy and OneTab. This is far superior." - User Review "As a current Tabs Outliner user, my first reaction is that BrainTool, even in its pre-1.0 release, is far more polished." - User Review
BrainTool is hard to summarize. Its a way-better bookmarks manager, but it's also a browser manager, a tabs manager and a session manager. It's a replacement for tools like Tabs Outliner, but it's mostly a personal knowledge management system that allows you to organize all of your online information sources (web sites, Google docs, gmails, files, photos, Slack channels, social media groups, code repos, wiki pages, task backlogs, Jupyter notebooks, etc etc etc), combine them with your text-based notes and see the big picture in the tree structured side panel. It's the plain text bookmarking tool that I always wanted to exist but could never find, so I built it. I hope you like it!
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- Extensive customization and personalization options.
- Hierarchical organization of bookmarks and tabs.
- Minimal permission requirements and strong focus on user privacy.
- Integration with emacs org-mode.
- Responsive and helpful developer.
- Bugs and performance issues, such as hanging during startup.
- Lack of a dark mode support.
- Could benefit from additional features like creating new folders while saving pages.
- Some users find it unpolished or lacking in updates.
- Impressive integration and organization features.
- Developer commitment to updates and improvements.
- Transition from other tab management extensions like Tabs Outliner and Toby.
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BrainTool - Go Beyond Bookmarks requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.
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BrainTool - Go Beyond Bookmarks has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.
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