BrainTool - Go Beyond Bookmarks

BrainTool is the best Bookmark and Tabs Manager for your online life.
What is BrainTool - Go Beyond Bookmarks?
BrainTool - Go Beyond Bookmarks is an advanced Bookmark and Tabs Manager for Chrome that transforms how you navigate the web. Organize bookmarks, notes, and web resources into a personal Topic hierarchy for easier access and control. Features include tab and window management, keyboard shortcuts, and a private, text-based data structure. Import and sync your data effortlessly, enhancing your online experience while keeping your information secure and organized.

Extension stats

Users: 5,000+
Rating: 4.79 (260)
Version: 1.1 (Last updated: 2024-11-11)
Creation date: 2020-11-23
Risk impact: High risk impact
Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 3
Permissions:
  • tabs
  • storage
  • tabGroups
  • webNavigation
  • bookmarks
Size: 328.70K

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BrainTool - Go Beyond Bookmarks (v1.1)
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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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User reviews

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Pros
  • Extensive customization and personalization options.
  • Supports seamless integration with org mode for bookmarks and notes.
  • User-friendly hierarchical organization of tabs and bookmarks.
  • Minimal permission requirements and focus on user privacy.
  • Responsive and helpful developer support.
Cons
  • Frequent bugs and issues with the extension stalling or hanging.
  • Clunky or unpolished UI with outdated design.
  • Syncing issues between browsers, leading to loss of bookmarks.
  • Difficulty in organizing bookmarks due to poor performance.
  • Some users miss the automatic tab organization feature.
Most mentioned
  • Transition from other extensions like Tabs Outliner and Toby.
  • Desire for improved features and updates.
  • Frustration with bugs and glitches.
  • Positive feedback on the organizational structure.
  • Requests for better functionality while saving bookmarks.
Recent reviews
Braintool team, Thank you so much! After trying many bookmark managers, I finally found the perfect one. I have just one request: it would be amazing if you could integrate this fantastic tool with a new tab page, where we have the ability to see and manage bookmarks on new tab. I truly appreciate your time and effort.
by Mohammad Jalal, 2024-10-22

Among the many bookmark managers, BrainTool stands out not only for its very good ratings. Above all, it has a convenient import and export function. And it supports the org mode even more. This allowed me to quite efficiently import my entire bookmark collection from Toby, which has become a paid add-on. In Toby, I exported the entire collection (you have to click on your account icon and there you will find the export of the entire collection) to a text file. At the same time, I exported the default BrainTool collection to an org file. A moment with notepad (the kind with two pluses), moving the bookmarks to the right place in the org file, filling in the missing brackets and importing the org file into BrainTool. Done.
by Marek Z Szymanski, 2024-10-20

Farewell, regular old bookmarks. There are so many extensions and apps out there to organize bookmarks but they always have disappointed me in one main factor: I never feel "in control" of my bookmarks a lot. When I say "control", I mean the kind of control you have over a Notepad file, with everything feeling nice and organized. However with BrainTool, I feel totally in control and actually see myself using this very regularly. It's nice to have a large storage of bookmarks like this, because some bookmarks are sites you visit regularly while others are for saving websites. With BrainTool's hierarchical order that the user gets to decide, I don't feel limited by how many bookmarks I can create. I am very picky when it comes to organizers like this, so I am grateful in finding such a satisfying one like BrainTool. I am so excited for where this program goes!
by Silas Nahan, 2024-10-18
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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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