BrainTool - Beyond Bookmarks

BrainTool - Beyond Bookmarks

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

What is BrainTool - Beyond Bookmarks?
BrainTool - Beyond Bookmarks is a Chrome extension that revolutionizes bookmark and tabs management. It allows users to organize all their web resources into a personal online topic hierarchy via the BrainTool Topic Manager and control browser tabs easily and effectively. Users can capture links, add notes and assign topics through keystrokes. It also allows users to tailor their workspace by allocating each topic to its own window or tab group. Remarkably, all user data is kept private within a plain text file, giving the user complete control over their information.
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Users: 6,000+
Rating: 4.80 (251)
Version: 0.9.9 (Last updated: 2022-04-07)
Creation date: 2020-11-23
Risk impact: Moderate risk impact
Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • tabs
  • storage
Size: 1.21M
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BrainTool - Beyond Bookmarks
BrainTool - Beyond Bookmarks (v0.9.9)
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Organize all your bookmarks, web resources and notes into a personal online Topic hierarchy and control it via the BrainTool Topic Manager. Open and close individual browser tabs, windows and tab groups with a single click and navigate using powerful keyboard commands. Capture a link, add a note and assign a Topic while in context on a web page, all with a couple of keystrokes. 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 delete 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 fits within any larger text-based workflow. Back it up, copy it, share it - it's just a text file that you own.

Import from .org files or from Tabs Outliner, download locally and/or sync automatically to Google Drive. BrainTool is a 100% browser based application 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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Pros
  • Integration with emacs org-mode
  • Ability to add notes to bookmarks
  • Richly annotate each link
  • Organize bookmarks into deep topical hierarchies
  • Works across multiple monitors
Cons
  • Buggy
  • Synchronization issues
  • Clunky UI
  • Subscription required for full features
  • No clear usage guide
Most mentioned
  • buggy
  • synchronization
Recent reviews
Bardzo usprawnia pracę z zakładkami. Możliwy export do org-mode. Gorąco polecam.
by grzegorz rzeczka grzegorz rzeczka, 2021-11-27

基本的にはブックマークと機能は変わらない。 しかし通常のブックマークとは別に、このアドオンの中で管理する"もう一つ別の"ブックマークである。 (ブックマークとのインポートなど機能が充実してきたので、同一の内容を維持することも容易である。) 言い換えれば、普段とは異なるブックマークとして管理することができる。 例えば、仕事専用、趣味専用、家族関連専用、頻繁に見るページ専用… はたまたPocketなどの「後で見る」系のアドオンとブックマークの間の中間のアドオンが欲しい人はBrainToolを代理として試してみよう。(特にこの使い方は、アドオンシーン全体に何か影響を与えられそうだと思う。) もちろん、Emacs系のユーザやGTD経験者にはorg-modeとの連携が楽しい。Vim系やそれらの未経験者でもマークアップ系の表記さえ大まかに抑えれば、txt形式と変わらないので嬉しいだろう。 万人に必要なアドオンだとは思わない。 しかしほとんどの人は、BrainTool公式の紹介動画を見たり、試しにインストールしてみることで、痒い所に手が届く気持ちになるはずだ。
by smith J smith J, 2021-08-21

Impossible de lancer l'application : pas de possibilité de se connecter à GDrive
by Jean-Yves BORGNE Jean-Yves BORGNE, 2020-12-07
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