extension ExtPose

BrainTool - 북마크 넘어

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BrainTool은 온라인 라이프를 위한 토픽 매니져입니다.

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Description from store 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! ------- RELEASE NOTES -------- # Welcome to BrainTool 0.9.9 ## New Look and Feel including a Dark Mode I completely revamped the BT fonts and color palette and added a dark mode - the most requested feature. ## Re-organized Saver Tool I made another iteration on whats been called the bookmarker or popup to make it easier to understand while keeping it fast and efficient for both mouse and keyboard users. Additionally, any number of nested new topics can now be created from the Saver e.g. setting the topic to Animal:Vertebrate:Mammal:Carnivore:Canid:Dog:Hound:Beagle will create 8 levels of topic if they don't already exist. ## Compact Mode Another highly requested feature. Shrinking the Topic Manager to less than 350 pixels wide hides the notes column for a highly compact and information dense display of your saved topics and pages. ## "Open in New Window" Tool You can now open a page, or complete topic, in a new window. The previous mapping of topics to windows has been removed as being too complicated. You can choose to have BT manage your tabs, grouping them into tab groups, or not, thus leaving them wherever you or the browser puts them. BT will no longer confuse you by moving tabs between windows. ## "Add Top Level Topic" Tool Available at the top of the Topic Manager. Hopefully this one is self-explanatory. ## Topic Manager window remembers its position The Topic Manager now opens with the same size and position as it had when it was last closed. ## GDrive Refresh Button If you have GDrive syncing turned on, the Refresh button is now available in the top toolbar whenever BT detects that there is a newer file available. ## Topic Tree imports A correctly formatted org-mode file will now import its contents into the appropriate nesting in the tree. See https://braintool.org/topicTrees. ## Other Usability and Misc Improvements I removed the counter for number of saves (top right) because its no longer part of the pricing model. Lots of improvements were made in areas like the card editor, the initial topic tree, the initial placement of the topic manager etc. # BrainTool 0.9.8 ## New Bookmarker To address some confusion and to make the 'popup' more usable I've re-designed it from the ground up and done some rebranding. I'm now calling the popup 'Bookmarker'. Clicking the BT icon (or Opt/alt-b) now opens the Bookmarker showing the note card for the page with the Notes field selected. You can still just hit enter to move on without adding a note, for speed. This new card editor also allows you to edit the page title and it's where you can select to save all tabs or just the active one. On exit the card editor opens the topic selector. This was also reworked to show a clearer view of your topic hierarchy. The hierarchy starts partially open and subtopics can be opened, closed and selected with your mouse. Auto complete works as before, just start typing. The previous 'Group', 'Stick', 'Close' options have been reduced to a selector for 'Group' or 'Close'. The selector remembers its start and defaults to that the next time around. ## Skip the Topic! By popular demand I added a 'Scratch' topic. If you leave the topic selector empty the page (or pages) will be added under the Scratch topic. This means you can save a page, or all pages in the window, by bringing up the Bookmarker and hitting Enter twice, the first creates the note card with an empty note, the second saves the page under Scratch. ## Update existing note cards in the Bookmarker With this new bookmarker design I was able to add the ability to edit the notes and title for existing saved pages. Opening the Bookmarker for a page already saved to BT will open it's note card and save any updates. (NB changing its topic still needs to be done in the Topic Manager.) ## Side Panel is now Topic Manager and can run in a tab The term 'Side Panel' did not make sense to folks so its been renamed to Topic Manager. Based on a suggestion from Crimson K and validation from Timothy, I added an option for the Topic Manager to run in a browser tab rather than the current side panel. Its not optimized for this form factor and for me it works better as a panel off to the side of my browser tabs but it seemed worth adding to support a full-page-on-top type setup. From Options, change 'Topic Manager in:' from 'Side Panel' to 'Tab', wait a few seconds for it to save, then close the Topic Manager. When you relaunch, the Topic Manager will open in a regular browser tab. If you use it in this mode I'd be interested in feedback over in the discussion group. ## Performance Improvements Thanks to Timothy for stressing BT with his six thousand plus bookmarks! A small tweak to avoid a low level recalculation of layout for every table row added resulted in a significant speed up on first start with a big braintool.org file. Search got similar performance attention and should now be snappier. ## Search Improvements Thanks to Peter for his detailed feedback on Search. Improvements include better key handling on Linux, being able to 'escape' key out of search, restoring previous selection on failed search and a few other bug fixes. ## Space key Also based on Peter's feedback, the space key will now open a tab for the selected item if its not already open, and highlight it if it is open. # BrainTool 0.9.7 ## Search See the new User Guide for details, or just try playing with it and let me know what you think. ## Best effort mapping of open tabs to saved links on startup When you first launch BrainTool it will attempt to find any tabs which you have already saved into your braintool.org file and show them as open in the tree. ## Selection in tree now tracks highlighted tab in browser As you navigate tabs in the browser any matching row in the BT tree will be selected (and scrolled into view). ## Onboarding and usability updates - I trimmed the initial BrainTool.org file contents to be less overwhelming. - The initial first-click popup now explains the side panel and popup. - When the side panel is closed the popup icon now shows an indication that BT is not running. ## Bug fixes - BT now saves correctly on keyboard number based folding and keyboard row moves. - Topic nodes with no links are now placed correctly in the hierarchy. - Better handling of Google Drive versioning should remove spurious warnings about a newer file version existing. - Tab navigation now works correctly on the topic card editor. ## User Guide: see https://braintool.org/support/userGuide # BrainTool 0.9.6 ## Cleaner more minimal UI Based on the results of a comprehensive review by a panel of designers and UX folks I've moved to a cleaner more minimal UI with bigger buttons, more spacing and clearer backgrounds. ## Improved onboarding process Combined with the general UI improvements I overhauled the installation and getting started process to try to address areas where new users were getting confused and to get them up and running with less effort. ## Support for Edge and Brave browsers Edge users can get BrainTool at the Edge store. Brave users can install from the Chrome store. Unfortunately Firefox does not support the tab groups function BT needs and has other incompatibilities that made it too onerous for me to support it in this release. Vivaldi (installable via the Chrome store) works with Topic mapping set to 'Windows'. ## Added support for subscription memberships and coupons In advance of the 1.0 version of BrainTool I needed to put some structure in place to allow me to charge for premium subscriptions. See the in-app coupon offer! ## Version warnings for synced Google Drive file If you've chosen to sync to a Drive file BrainTool now checks before saving, and on getting focus, whether there's a more recent version than the one you are viewing and if so provides an alert (if saving) or warning. # BrainTool 0.9.1a Updated Topic Card editor and navigation. # BrainTool 0.9 ## File Import/Export In addition to Chrome Bookmarks, 0.9 adds the ability to import from a TabsOutliner export and also to import a text file with org-mode markup. Heading, paragraph text and contained http(s) links are extracted and represented in the tree. In addition to exporting to Bookmarks you can now also export an org file. ## org-mode Support BrainTool should now retain any org markup in the BrainTool.org file (or an imported file). BT stores app data using headers for Topics, headers with links for topic occurrences (ie links) and paragraph text for notes. Other constructs such as lists, tables, blocks etc will just be shown in plain text in the tree and written back out as such. This allows BrainTool to become an integral part of a text and org-based note taking and productivity workflow. ## No GDrive Dependency By default BT now stores your data in Chrome local storage. This should be resilient across browser sessions on a single Chrome instance. Its still advisable to also write to the BrainTool.org file on your GDrive but not necessary. ## Other Minor Improvements * New Keyboard commands - entering 1 through 9 now collapses the tree to the numbered level (e.g. hit '2' to show just the top two levels of the tree) * URLS of the form file:/// are now supported, type something like file:///users/tconfrey/Documents/ into Chrome's address bar and save it into your BT tree! * Tree folding and unfolding now has a slight animation to help maintain your bearings. * The popup now has some descriptive hover text and an explicit 'Save' button which does the same thing as just hitting Enter in the Notes field. # BrainTool 0.8 ## Support for Release Notes! Hopefully you are seeing this page as a result of being upgraded to the new version of BrainTool. I also added a [Welcome](welcome.md) page for new installs, feel free to check it out. See also the general [Support](../support.md) page. ## Keyboard shortcuts Key bindings were influenced by emacs/org-mode. Commands operating on the selection are as follows: - Tree Navigation/Display: - n, p or up/down arrow keys select the 'n'ext or 'p'revious row. - Navigation with the right and left arrow functions to open and close nodes while navigating the tree. - Tab expands or collapses the subtree for a Topic row. - Browser Control: - Space surfaces the selections' tab or window if it's open in the browser. (NB you also get this by double clicking a row.) - Enter toggles open/close the selected links tab in the browser, or all of its tabs if its a Topic. - Tree Editing: - Opt-up/down arrows move the selection up/down. - t cycles the TODO state. - e opens the editor for the selection. - Opt-left arrow outdents (promotes) the selection. - delete deletes the selected topic or occurrence. - Opt-enter creates a new child Topic. In addition there are the following general keys: - h Keyboard commands can be shown any time by typing 'h'. - Opt-z undoes the last deletion. Note that previous versions of your BrainTool file are saved by Google on your GDrive. - Opt-b opens the BrainTool popup on the current browser tab. - Opt-b-b opens and selects the BrainTool side panel. ## Ability to tag all a windows tabs at once ## Statistics Bar - Showing the topic's full parentage in the topic editor popup. - Better pre-fills for the topic to use in the popup. - Improvements to keeping tabs assigned to tab groups properly during navigation. # BrainTool 0.7 - New grouping options were introduced. - Window, as before one window per Topic. - Tab Group - a tab group per Topic. - None - no active grouping, tabs are created in place. - New Topic insert button. Add a sub topic under any topic. - Support for topics with no links to occurrences. - Updated icons. - The BT toolbar badge scrolls to show full tag name and shows notes on hover and in the popup (read-only). - double-tap option-b to surface BT window

Latest reviews

  • (2025-07-01) Shadenium: I don't understand what's going on. It has messed up the names of all my bookmarks and now creates everything as a bookmark group and automatically pins all of them to bookmark bar. I opened 4 new windows and got 4 new giant pins in browser's bookmarks bar. I'm genuinely afraid it will just delete all my browser's 15 years of bookmarks on a whim if I don't understand the intentions of the author's system and buttons correctly, even though I used Tabs Outliner for 7 years. I'm disabling the extension for now until Bookmarks experiment is over. This function should never have been added. Please, leave the bookmarks alone. UPD: It seems that it automatically renames bookmarks with empty names to have their names what their URLs are, making them tremendously long.
  • (2025-06-16) Yongwei Yuan: As a long time emacs/org-mode user, I cannot express the excitement when I find this gem. And my experience with BrainTool certainly lives up with my excitement! Cannot wait to see this tool evolve in the future.
  • (2025-06-09) OceanGypsy: BrainTool stands out as a versatile Chrome extension that transforms how I manage tabs, tasks, and notes. Tony Confrey’s thoughtful design truly shines through. Key highlights: The outline-style organization brings clarity to complex browsing sessions and task lists, making everything easy to navigate. Effective tab saving and restoring helps me maintain focus without drowning in browser clutter. The clean and minimal interface eliminates distractions, letting me concentrate on my workflow. Handy keyboard shortcuts make moving around fast and effortless. For anyone looking to streamline their browsing and task management in one smart tool, BrainTool delivers impressively. Highly recommended! Tagline: BrainTool — Organized Chaos, Clear Confusion.
  • (2025-05-10) Beau Boorman: This really steps up my browsing experiance. I haven't played with org.mode but this may suck me into the org.mode emacs world. I really like being able to easily get to my bookmark list in usable format. Thanks for all that you do!
  • (2025-03-25) Charlie: Ended up installing this because Tabs Outliners is now dead. I've had several hundred tabs open in about 10 or so windows and this extension is literally crawling. Been sitting on the "Loading your BrainTool file" page for over 10 minutes at this point and nothing seems to be happening. I know hundreds of pages are a lot but it is literally the point of this extension. Plus I've tried other apps such as TabMe and they loaded all my pages within seconds.
  • (2025-03-25) Ameen Sidhique: Exactly what I needed on my quest to find the perfect website bookmarker, I always felt the builtin browser features were lacklustre on all browsers, my previous setup would have me take a screenshot of the page using vivaldi's inbuilt screenshot taker, make a note using it and adding hashtags to that note, this was entirely replaced by BrainTool
  • (2025-02-24) ethan nami: has been an excellent tool for organizing my bookmarks and sessions. The best feature by far is that it can save pages, tab groups, or even entire session, super helpful for someone like me who is constantly racking up more and more tabs and loathes closing them until I've gotten around to them. "read later" or even groups of tabs on chrome start to fill up and get cluttered too quickly, Braintool lets me save the sessions to return to later without having to keep 100 tabs open, or have them mix into a giant pool of nonsense. The constant updates and new features keep moving it further and further into one of the best apps for chrome. Its flexible functionality and easy interface make it a must have on any machine I use.
  • (2025-02-22) Der Rainer: Has confused my existing Chrome groups mostly, seems to change groups continuouly. Really scary. Creates a lot of artificial groups for tabs that weren't in a group before. I admit I didnt study the user guide in depth but out of the box the behaviour is really completely unexxected. I like the usage of Orgmode markup a lot and thus gave it a try. I recommend to test this in a virtual machine so restoring would be easy.
  • (2025-02-03) Love One Another: I spent a lot of time setting this up. Now I cannot find any way to load the app? I can save (Can no longer save after rebooting computer) a bookmark but cannot add a category or find the main app anywhere. Does anyone know how to find it? I get this when clicking on the bookmark part: This site can’t be reached localhost refused to connect. Try: Checking the connection Checking the proxy and the firewall ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED What does this mean? What are the steps to do this? Are there step by step instructions or did I just loose everything and waste an entire week setting this up? I see ‘Error Authenticating’ while enabling GDrive Google uses what are called ‘third-party cookies’ to store account information and a popup to ask for your permission. Increasingly browsers default ot not allowing popups and cookies. You need to allow popups from accounts.google.com and braintool.org and allow cookies from accounts.google.com in your Chrome settings. Doing so and restarting BrainTool should solve the problem. (NB do not click the box titled ‘Including Third-party cookies on this site’.) Also, I cannot find any Google Drive File for BrainTool! This is so Frustrating, Thank you
  • (2025-01-23) Bob Loucks: Pay.
  • (2024-12-09) Stanley Dunn: This is an atypical review, as I seldom discuss books or software. However, I am compelled to share my experience with the Braintool Chrome extension, which has significantly enhanced my productivity and organization. Over a year ago, I was struggling with managing 84 open tabs in Vivaldi (prior to their introduction of workspaces). This led me to discover Braintool, a solution surpassing traditional bookmark managers. It is important to distinguish that Braintool is a topic manager rather than a bookmark manager. This is because it can store not only bookmarks but also information packets, allowing users to organize research data alongside bookmarks in a hierarchical manner—a powerful feature for a browser extension. Braintool provides clear tutorials explaining its features and operations. I recommend completing these tutorials before using the extension and I have retained them in my own Braintool topic manager for reference. The extension utilizes org-mode syntax for organizing information, a text format facilitating the addition and sharing of information trees containing bookmarks, research, and notes. Examples within Braintool demonstrate org-mode usage. A upique feature is that Braintool offers the option to store one's topic vault locally or on Google Drive. I choose Google Drive for accessibility across multiple devices. Users can work with their topic vault as a separate window or as a browser tab, depending on screen space availability. Whether using a laptop or desktop with multiple monitors, Braintool's topic manager can be placed on a separate screen. Having used Braintool for over a year, I have collected numerous topics and elements in my vaults for work projects, home tasks, and book reviews. By employing the Braintool extension, users are prompted to save webpages when visited, designating their storage location within current or alternative topics. This natural method of information preservation is valuable for managing large quantities of data. As a topic manager rather than a bookmark manager, it is ideal for those working on extensive projects. For example, my initial 84 tabs were organized within Braintool's topic manager after completing the tutorials in under 30 minutes, leaving only three necessary tabs open. This efficient workflow has been maintained since. In conclusion, Braintool is an indispensable tool that will not disappoint users seeking an effective way to manage information. See BrainTool for more information. You will not be disappointed.
  • (2024-11-30) Zion Chen: BrainTool Bookmarker does not support dark mode well
  • (2024-10-20) Marek Z Szymanski: 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) Silas Nahan: 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) Nathan R: 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) LM google: 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) Jared R: 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) Eijiro Sumii: The developer stealth-marketed BrainTool in the support group for Tabs Outliner, but the former does not have the functionality of the latter.
  • (2024-06-13) Strati Vourakis: 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) Evan Smith: 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.
  • (2024-05-19) Decio Yokota: Came from Tabs Outliner and I'm currently testing version 1.0, although a different philosophy, I looks very promising, specially the developer commitment and upgrade do manifest v.3 which will diminish out options a lot. It seems one of the best option in fast development in 2024.
  • (2024-01-04) Eliot Baker: Impressed with what BrainTool can do! The concept is brilliant, integrating bookmarks and tabs seamlessly with emacs org-mode notes fits into my workflow perfectly. Despite the UI being organized differently that I expected, the convenience of having everything in one place is noteworthy. Looking forward to future updates and improvements. 5 stars for integration with emacs org-mode :)
  • (2023-10-24) Jyoti Shankar: The concept of this extension is brilliant but after having tried it for a month, I cannot get past the bugs. It hangs often in the "Starting BrainTool" step without resolution. I am going to be trying out other extensions that have the ability to add notes to bookmarks, are searchable and classify them with labels.
  • (2023-10-24) Jyoti Shankar: The concept of this extension is brilliant but after having tried it for a month, I cannot get past the bugs. It hangs often in the "Starting BrainTool" step without resolution. I am going to be trying out other extensions that have the ability to add notes to bookmarks, are searchable and classify them with labels.
  • (2023-08-18) Melory Sixx: Painfully buggy.
  • (2023-08-18) Melory Sixx: Painfully buggy.
  • (2023-05-24) Maxwell Thum: I've been looking for an extension like this for a long time. I haven't used it for long, but so far I like it more than Toby because Toby doesn't have folder hierarchy (as far as I can tell). A little unpolished still, but it seems to get the job done. I'm a bit sorry to see that it hasn't been updated in a year.
  • (2023-05-24) Maxwell Thum: I've been looking for an extension like this for a long time. I haven't used it for long, but so far I like it more than Toby because Toby doesn't have folder hierarchy (as far as I can tell). A little unpolished still, but it seems to get the job done. I'm a bit sorry to see that it hasn't been updated in a year.
  • (2023-01-12) Alice Free: I downloaded this about 30 minutes ago and my pistons are firing at full speed. Whenever you try a new tool, you go through your very specific needs for it and check things off as you go in the order of your priority. If it lacks those top functionalities, full stop and find something else. Towards the bottom of the list of needs, you ask if you can live without the function or wait until it's there. It truly feels like the developers KNOW my brain. I checked off every bullet point on my list of needs and then some. I don't know how I ever lived without it. What it does is everything that the baked in bookmark manager maybe could have done, but doesn't do well. I wish I had time to give the full on list of why this is so amazing, but as people like me generally have 10 windows open with 10 tab groups in each window... I'll circle back when I have time. lol Pretty amazing thus far. Hoping it stays up to date and curious to see how feature requests go. Going to go close tabs now. Ciao!
  • (2023-01-12) Alice Free: I downloaded this about 30 minutes ago and my pistons are firing at full speed. Whenever you try a new tool, you go through your very specific needs for it and check things off as you go in the order of your priority. If it lacks those top functionalities, full stop and find something else. Towards the bottom of the list of needs, you ask if you can live without the function or wait until it's there. It truly feels like the developers KNOW my brain. I checked off every bullet point on my list of needs and then some. I don't know how I ever lived without it. What it does is everything that the baked in bookmark manager maybe could have done, but doesn't do well. I wish I had time to give the full on list of why this is so amazing, but as people like me generally have 10 windows open with 10 tab groups in each window... I'll circle back when I have time. lol Pretty amazing thus far. Hoping it stays up to date and curious to see how feature requests go. Going to go close tabs now. Ciao!
  • (2023-01-10) Claudiu: I only dreamed about something like this. Tony made it real! Thanks a looot!
  • (2023-01-10) Claudiu: I only dreamed about something like this. Tony made it real! Thanks a looot!
  • (2022-12-30) 3 BLOOM: It's pretty good, wish I could make a new folder while saving pages though.
  • (2022-12-30) 3 BLOOM: It's pretty good, wish I could make a new folder while saving pages though.
  • (2022-12-27) Bill L: I have been looking for an extension that would allow me to manage my bookmarks and tabs. I tried a few other options and I prefer Braintool by far. I am so impressed by all the features and I love how it asks for minimal permission. Highly recommended!
  • (2022-12-27) Bill L: I have been looking for an extension that would allow me to manage my bookmarks and tabs. I tried a few other options and I prefer Braintool by far. I am so impressed by all the features and I love how it asks for minimal permission. Highly recommended!
  • (2022-12-03) Sam Infante: Great extension, interesting features!
  • (2022-12-03) Sam Infante: Great extension, interesting features!
  • (2022-11-30) Radu L.: I very much wished it worked. The whole idea is great, the implementation is not. Is very buggy. Most importantly the sync between browsers doesn't work properly. You can have your entire tree of bookmarks wiped off. Also, in Edge it forgets the settings sometimes. The UI is very clunky, outdated, lame colors and fonts. It can be a good extension if used in Chrome and don't synchronize.
  • (2022-11-30) Radu L.: I very much wished it worked. The whole idea is great, the implementation is not. Is very buggy. Most importantly the sync between browsers doesn't work properly. You can have your entire tree of bookmarks wiped off. Also, in Edge it forgets the settings sometimes. The UI is very clunky, outdated, lame colors and fonts. It can be a good extension if used in Chrome and don't synchronize.
  • (2022-11-27) Max Learning: well done！i like it
  • (2022-11-27) Max Learning: well done！i like it
  • (2022-11-16) Andy Briesemeister: Naja geht so, viel zu umständlich in der Handhabung. Also Benutzerfreundlich ist diese Erweiterung schon einmal gar nicht. Hat zwar ein paar gute Funktionen, die bringen einen leider nicht viel, weil es einfach zu umständlich ist. Somit ist es im Alltag unbrauchbar.
  • (2022-10-29) mood moof: Actually I used Pocket for years to manage my bookmarks, articles read later, etc. However, really I was not satisfied with some setting and wrote some mails to Pocket team but never got a feedback and never got an improvement. Last week one of my friend recommended me this BrainTool and I tried it for days so far, I could not say that this is the best bookmark manager but I could say this is the right one for me. Anyone in case you wanna get more detail please refer to the page: https://braintool.org instead of my comments due to there are too many instruction here wrote by other guys. Install it and give it a try!
  • (2022-10-29) mood moof: Actually I used Pocket for years to manage my bookmarks, articles read later, etc. However, really I was not satisfied with some setting and wrote some mails to Pocket team but never got a feedback and never got an improvement. Last week one of my friend recommended me this BrainTool and I tried it for days so far, I could not say that this is the best bookmark manager but I could say this is the right one for me. Anyone in case you wanna get more detail please refer to the page: https://braintool.org instead of my comments due to there are too many instruction here wrote by other guys. Install it and give it a try!
  • (2022-10-27) Deborah Tahlman: Exciting to have a bookmarking extension that allows for this much dialing in and personalization to allow me to organize things how I see fit. I also like that you can make the menu either a separate tab or a sidebar. I appreciate the extension dev keeping our privacy as users.
  • (2022-10-27) Deborah Tahlman: Exciting to have a bookmarking extension that allows for this much dialing in and personalization to allow me to organize things how I see fit. I also like that you can make the menu either a separate tab or a sidebar. I appreciate the extension dev keeping our privacy as users.
  • (2022-10-26) Hope Wells: I'm happy with this app. I have tried 8-12 different bookmark manager extensions for chrome and I've tried an equal amount on edge. I am yet to find one that is EXACTLY what I am looking for, but then again I'm unsure if I even know EXACTLY what I am looking for. I like that this app does a lot of the organization I need for me and I also love that I can add notes to my bookmarks. So many bookmark manager extensions and apps do not offer this feature which is surprising to me since it seems like such a necessity in my opinion. The note feature and the excellent "how-to" instructions on the developers website are the main reasons I love this app. You can tell that BRAINTOOL really means something to the creator. I also love that this is opensource and I hope to purchase the premium version soon.
  • (2022-10-26) Hope Wells: I'm happy with this app. I have tried 8-12 different bookmark manager extensions for chrome and I've tried an equal amount on edge. I am yet to find one that is EXACTLY what I am looking for, but then again I'm unsure if I even know EXACTLY what I am looking for. I like that this app does a lot of the organization I need for me and I also love that I can add notes to my bookmarks. So many bookmark manager extensions and apps do not offer this feature which is surprising to me since it seems like such a necessity in my opinion. The note feature and the excellent "how-to" instructions on the developers website are the main reasons I love this app. You can tell that BRAINTOOL really means something to the creator. I also love that this is opensource and I hope to purchase the premium version soon.
  • (2022-10-24) satyam: As a graduate researcher who tends to get lost down many rabbit holes this helps brings sanity to my research endeavor. Helping compartmentalize different topics is a great way to subdue the overwhelming tab stacks.

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2025-07-05 / 1.3.1
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