BrainTool Reviews and Details

Social recommendations and mentions

• Use Txt for Bookmarks

  Take a look at BrainTool. It's a bookmarks/tabs/todo-manager browser extension that writes to an org-mode syntax text file. Allows you to capture notes, containment hierarchy, to-do state etc and expose it all to your org PKMS. (Disclosure, I'm the developer.) https://braintool.org https://github.com/tconfrey/BrainTool. - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago

• Browser bookmarking system is already built-in (2024)

  Give BrainTool a look. Its designed to address tab hoarding by making it easy to file and close out tabs and tab groups and then re-find them with search and hierarchy and notes. Associated keyboard commands make it easy to open/close and navigate tabs as a group (eg open a tabgroup with all tabs for a given topic). Everything can be synced to a plan text file. (Disclaimer, I'm the developer, but also a user!) [0]... - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• Ask HN: Do you use a bookmark manager?

  Https://braintool.org/ works really well, saves everything in plain text, works especially well for us Emacs/org-mode freaks. - Source: Hacker News / over 3 years ago

• everyone says chrome is losing Adblock but when will it happen so I know when to swap to firefox?

  1) If I may offer you BrainTool as an alternative. Check out the reviews - many satisfied TO migrants. Source: almost 4 years ago

• Why the pomodoro method isn't working for you

  PS Public service/shameless-promotion: https://braintool.org. Source: almost 4 years ago

• Bookmark Help

  BrainTool does exactly this. It allows you to quickly save and categorize tabs and then open or close the whole category in a tab group with a click. Source: almost 4 years ago

• too many tabs

  FWIW I built BrainTool to solve exactly this kind of problem. Check it out and get in under the wire before I launch the paid version! (PS I'd love feedback.). Source: almost 4 years ago

• Ask HN: Storing and Organizing Bookmarks?

  Have a look at BrainTool (https://braintool.org) Saves bookmarks into a nested topic hierarchy with associated notes. Text search and full keyboard controls. Everything is saved to an accessible plain text file. - Source: Hacker News / almost 4 years ago

• Tab manager with groups support

  Check out BrainTool. Its becoming the go-to extension for refugees from Tabs Outliner. Also, it has support for tab groups! Source: almost 4 years ago

• How do you manage Bookmarks ? How private is using a bookmark manager ?

  Take a look at BrainTool (disclosure - I'm the developer). Source: about 4 years ago

• How is possible there is no tab management feature?

  I'm the developer of BrainTool which is fast becoming the goto extension for TabsOutliner refugees. Check out the reviews on the Web Store , you'll see lots of comments in there to that effect. Source: about 4 years ago

• Capture/note taking app combinations for an aspiring developer?

  - BrainTool also saves to org-mode text and so allows you combine in-browser bookmarks/notes/tabs with any of the above. Source: about 4 years ago

• Help Reorganizing Digital Life

  I'd be interested in your thoughts on BrainTool. It tries to help you organize all of your stuff inside the browser as a set of nested topics which have notes and associated links/bookmarks. You can save a bunch of tabs as, say, project-x, and then open and close them together in a tab group. Private/local/plain-text based. Source: about 4 years ago

• Bookmarking Application

  Hey, I didn't respond to the OP because my extension - BrainTool - does not have the visual aspect of raindrop but it checks all of your other boxes. There is no server and all your data is in plain text readable form in a local file. Its pretty information dense compared to the competitors and optimized for speed and keyboard navigation with search over titles, urls and associated notes. (But also very pretty... Source: about 4 years ago

• Tablerone vs OneTab

  I'll throw my extension, BrainTool, into the mix! Its private, local and efficient, scaling to thousands of tabs and bookmarks. Source: about 4 years ago

• Looking for a solution to open task specific multiple tabs in one click

  OTOH you could try BrainTool which will allow you to create groups of tabs and then open and close them as a set (as well as add notes, search for keywords, add TODOs etc). I think it could fit with your workflow. Source: about 4 years ago

• Raindrop: All-in-One Bookmark Manager

  BrainTool[1] is a similar bookmarking extension that is open source[2] and syncs data to a plain text file (org-mode format) on Google Drive. [1] https://braintool.org. - Source: Hacker News / about 4 years ago

• Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?

  I switched from pinboard.in / del.icio.us (the social aspect was becoming less and less important) to a workflow based on braintool (https://braintool.org/) and org-mode TODO and tags, it completely changed the way I work with bookmarks now. - Source: Hacker News / about 4 years ago

• Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?

  Https://plainorg.com (iOS/share sheet from Safari) - I authored this one. https://braintool.org (Chrome) Both powered by a plain text stores. - Source: Hacker News / about 4 years ago

• What are your strategies/workflows for capturing tasks outside of emacs?

  BrainTool is a bookmark/tabs-manager extension that saves its data in Org and also works as a basic to-do manager for capturing in-browser tasks which can then sync into the rest of your org workflow. More details:. Source: about 4 years ago

• Ask HN: What happened to Pinboard (June 22)? Should I switch to Raindrop?

  Kind of a different take, check out https://braintool.org . Chromium only RN and no archiving, but you own your own data in plain text (org-mode format). Freemium, source-available and private. Its optimized for fast filing and retrieval with search and keyboard controls. - Source: Hacker News / about 4 years ago