BrainTool - Go Beyond Bookmarks
BrainTool is the best Bookmark and Tabs Manager for your online life.
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spammy, or outdated. Pros
- 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.
Cons
- 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.
Most mentioned
- 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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| Date | Author | Rating | Lang | Comment |
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| 2024-11-30 |  | | en | BrainTool Bookmarker does not support dark mode well |
| 2024-10-22 |  | | en | 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. |
| 2024-10-20 |  | | en | 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. |
| 2024-10-18 |  | | en | 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! |
| 2024-10-06 |  | | en | I am a huge tab hoarder and have been hopping from extension to extension to find the perfect tab manager for my workflow. I have to say, while the extension took some time to get used to, it has been the tool I've been waiting for, allowing me to categorize tabs quickly (by tracing back where they came from). With BrainTool, I am no longer losing important sites to the abyss, using suboptimal methods (such as scrolling through history) to access them. I can put everything in a centralized place, organized by topic (love the sub-topic feature by the way!!), which aligns very well with how I browse the web. I am excited to see the program continue to improve! |
| 2024-09-17 |  | | en | As it seems many on here, I am also coming over from Tabs Outliner, which I have liked, but has bugs and a couple of used-daily free things taken away with the recent, summer (Aug?) 2024 update. So.... on to try new things. As someone said below, this is a little different philosophy than Tabs Outliner (where all opened tabs are automatically populated) and more like Toby (you have to select/choose to add the tabs) and so I am still getting used to it. I do like it so far and find it eminently useful. As someone who can open 30 tabs in about as many seconds while I go down a rabbit hole or open tabs from social media websites (the major culprit) like Telegram or FaceBook, I don't know how ANYONE can survive without some sort of Tabs Extension such as this. My experience so far has been positive. Not buggy. Easy to navigate. I like having the sidebar (from the computer toolbar) and the add tab/window/session (from the browser toolbar) and I go between them often. Also like having the sidebar/tab option (would be nice to have both). LOVE the easy-on-the-eye coloring, easy hierarchy, add child button Appreciate can export or save to bookmarks or sync to cloud - excellent Saving the best for last . . . LOVE the To Do List - don't know of another extension that adds this to the a tab extension - creative! Makes it heads and tails above the others. |
| 2024-07-11 |  | | en | Since TabOutliner is no longer maintained, I was looking for help/ideas in TabOutliner's reviews and someone mentioned to try BrainTool. Glad that they did. This is a very promising application so hopefully it doesn't get abandoned like TabOutliner. |
| 2024-07-09 |  | | en | The developer stealth-marketed BrainTool in the support group for Tabs Outliner, but the former does not have the functionality of the latter. |
| 2024-06-10 |  | | en | UPDATE after v.1.0.0, 2024 - 06-12: BrainTool is revolutionary for me. Because virtually everything we do these days is online / web-based, we are forced to spend the bulk of our days in the browser. BrainTool truly solves an enormous issue, which is organizing the absolute deluge of sites, windows, tabs & junk we have to slog through each day. It is very much different from bookmarks, because BrainTool is intended specifically for quickly & easily managing active / working / functional tabs; not just "oh, I'd like to come back here *someday*"....though it could work for that too, if you wanted. But BrainTool is geared towards helping organize & stay on top of the monumental flood of websites we are all forced to work with each day. The 1.0 update is phenomenal. Looks absolutely gorgeous, very visually pleasing & appealing, and a significant upgrade. PS: I NEVER discuss / geek out so much about any app / piece of software, but BrainTool really is just revolutionary for me. :-) It truly solves an enormous problem. End Update; ORIGINAL LANGUAGE: BrainTool is absolutely astounding. THIS is the tab manager / organizer that I've been searching for!! BrainTool is basically a file & folder structure / system for your web browser; for all your tabs, windows, groups of tabs, etc. I still use & will continue to use Tabs Outliner, but it hasn't been updated in forever & might not make it past an upcoming "Manifest v.2 / v3" upgrade in chrome. Hence, I've been preparing myself for the possibility of its demise & found BrainTool. BrainTool is quite different from Tabs Outliner and it did take me a few weeks to really wrap my head around it + modify a few of my (bad) browsing habits a touch, but I'm so much better off now. I finally feel organized, clarity & in control of my browsing sessions & tabs. Truly. BrainTool lets you create folders and virtually all the sub-folders you want (and sub-sub folders, and... :-) ) and since they don't move / shfit / constantly get replaced by all the other tabs & windows you have opened (as in Tabs Outliner, which saves EVERY tab by default) you finally feel stable & in control. It brings stability, consistently & clarity to my browsing sessions. You set your folder structure however you like - it even comes with a PARA-type template by default!! - and it STAYS however you set it. BrainTool only saves the tabs you specifically save, which at first I hated, but honestly, now I'm seeing its BrainTools' best feature. Compared to Tabs Outliner, which saves EVERYTHING, which quickly gets messy & out of control. With BrainTool, you're not constantly (and manually!) deleting / re-organizing tabs that you just don't need to save. Please understand; I'm NOT bashing Tabs Outliner; I do really love it and will continue to use it as long as its viable; I'm simply always looking for something better, and I'm concerned by the lack of development, updates, communication from the Tabs Outliner team. I can't be left stranded without any sort of tab organizer. I have tried a lot of different tab management / organizational add-ons / extensions, and Tabs Outliner is absolutely, hands down one of the best, but I think BrainTool even beats it for me, my brain, and my browsing habits. I've been messaging with the developer directly. He is super responsive, helpful & friendly. Overall, 10/5; get this extension! |
| 2024-05-22 |  | | en | I've only been using BrainTool a short amount of time, but already I'm incredibly impressed. It offers extensive customization and personalization, allowing me to organize things exactly how I want. I love that I can choose to display the menu as either a separate tab or a sidebar. One of the standout features is its minimal permission requirements and strong focus on user privacy. I've tried other options, but BrainTool far surpasses them. It integrates seamlessly with my workflow, especially with organizing my research links and bookmarks, which is a game-changer for me. The UI is a bit different from what I expected, but having everything in one place is incredibly convenient. Although it's still a bit unpolished, the functionality more than makes up for it. It's truly amazing how it meets all my specific needs, even those I didn't know I had. The developer's commitment to updates and improvements is reassuring, and I'm excited to see what new features will be added. Overall, BrainTool has become an indispensable part of my browsing experience in the short amount of time I've been using it, and I highly recommend it to anyone looking for a powerful tool to manage their tabs and bookmarks. |
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