BrainTool - Go Beyond Bookmarks for Edge

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

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Description from store 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 browser 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 -------- #BrainTool 1.1 Automatic local backups or recent, daily and monthly changes. Also: - Improved scrolling and arrow key support for search and row navigation. - Removed/defaulted settings for Sticky tabs and Tab Groups - Removed Notes toggle, replaced with resize control. - Improved discoverability of Supporter purchase buttons - Added uninstall feedback survey - bug fixes, performance improvements # BrainTool 1.0.3 Minor release addressing some bugs and UI feedback. - Improved handling of dragging tabs between tabgroups and windows. - Added 'w' as a keyboard command for 'open in new Window'. - Improved handling of screen configuration changes. # BrainTool 1.0.2 A small point release with unfinished business from 1.0 and updates based on 1.0 feedback ## Feature Updates - Added topic expansion on hover so folded topics can be dropped into (thanks @rocketman455 for the suggestion!) - Improvements to the upgrade process to make it clearer whats happening. - Added trial expiration and initial nagging 30 days after installation. - GitHub #32: When TopicMgr is in a tab - don't navigate on item deletion. If the browser is maximized don't adjust its position on first opening TM. ## Fixes - Better handling for gdrive cert expiry on save when Google Authorization popup is blocked. - GutHub #33: Fixed regex to not clobber org properties. - Improvements to tracking sticky tabs. - Various refactoring and error handling housekeeping. # Welcome to BrainTool 1.0! Here is an overview of whats new. ## Manifest V3 This change is not of great interest to a BT user but is mandated by Google and required non-trivial code changes. ## Full Tab Group Support One advantage of the manifest update is that it provides access to the tabgroup api so that BT can provide full synchronization between Topics and browser tabgroups. By default Topics are now shown as tabgroups in the browser. Tabs opened from BT open in a tabgroup labelled with the appropriate Topic. In the Topic Manager open links and Topics are highlighted with the tabgroups color. Changing the tabgroups color in the browser is reflected in the Topic Manager. Name changes and expand/collapse operations are also synced. Additionally dragging a tab into a tabgroup will save that tab into the Topic in BT. Dragging a saved tab out of its tabgroup will remove it from BrainTool. ## Sticky Tabs When 'Sticky Tabs' is enabled the relationship between a tab and an associated saved item in the Topic Manager is maintained when you click a link in the saved tab or during a server side redirection. This allows you to navigate around a saved site or app, or get redirected to a different url (for example to a log-in page) while staying in the context of the original saved BT Item. ## Topic Tree visuals The expand/collapse buttons and the favicon displays have been restyled, and an empty topic is now visually distinct. It is hoped that these changes make the tree structure easier to see, in addition to improving the styling in general. ## Session saving and Bookmarker Updates The BT Bookmarker now has the option to save a whole tabgroup (if the current tab is in one), and a complete session, in addition to the previous window and tab options. When saving a session, tab groups are saved as the corresponding BrainTool Topic. Any ungrouped tabs are put in a tabgroup named with a Window-N prefix and saved under a Topic with the same name in the Topic Manager. The Session itself is given a Session-date Topic name and saved under the Topic selected in the Bookmarker or the Scratch default Topic. ## Preferences for Dense, Hide Notes, Tooltips and Large Font New preferences have been added for these items. ## New Introductory Screens We've added a helpful BrainTool Buddy to give a gentle introduction to BT when it's initially installed and at launch thereafter, until turned off. ## GDrive Auth Change Another Google mandated update is the change to use their Auth 2.0 libraries for Google Drive authorization. Unfortunately the access provided to browser-based apps (ie those without a back-end server) is considered to be temporary access and to require explicit user interaction. If you have GDrive saving turned on you'll be warned in the red warning banner when the token expires. You can click to immediately re-auth or ignore it and re-auth will happen on the next save. ## Usability Improvements - Rows in the Topic Manager can now be dragged by selecting anywhere on the row - The Tab key now iterates a selected Topic through three states: collapsed, open with its child nodes showing and open with its children all fully expanded. - Search has been improved to make it easier to see the current match and other visible matches. ## Pricing and License Changes for 1.0 - There will be no limits on numbers of nodes saved in BT (other than those due to browser storage limits) - In addition to monthly and yearly subscriptions a one-time purchase lifetime license will be offered with pricing as follows: - Monthly $1.33/mo, Yearly $10.66/yr, Lifetime $21 - This (low, low) pricing reflects my goal of having BT be widely used and to encourage users to support its development. The extra change over $1/$10/$20 covers the Stripe transaction costs. - License enforcement will be as follows: - 30 days all access. - After 30 days messages of gentle encouragement will be shown at intervals. - Functionally some setting preferences will be locked (Dark mode, Favicons etc) but otherwise the app will be fully functional. # 0.9.9a This was a minor point release because there are no changes requiring updates on the Web Stores, but it has some major functionality! ## Local File Sync Local file sync opens up a lot of potential for saving, versioning and backing up your BrainTool data. The file location used by BrainTool can be hooked up to DropBox, a git repository or any other cloud syncing mechanism. Local sync is mutually exclusive with GDrive syncing, you can only sync to one place. Syncing can be turned on via the Settings screen (click the new Settings icon, top right). If you are already syncing to GDrive and want to change you will first need to turn off GDrive syncing (via 'Actions', again top right). On initiation you will be asked to select a folder for BT to access. The browser will ask you to grant permission first for Read-only access to the folder and then for read-write access. The ability to write to a local file from a web app is a newish capability and heavily secured within the browser. Every time you re-open the BT Topic Manager you will need to re-grant permissions for BT to write to the local folder. Note that the **Brave** browser developers need to enable via a browser configuration setting. ## Settings, Actions and Help panels The previous overlay panel put access to settings behind multiple mouse clicks and was confusing for many users. We've broken out those functions into separate panels which can be accessed directly from the top level Topic Manager. Settings and Actions are top right, Help is bottom right. Other than Local file sync, the available settings and actions are unchanged. ## Tips, Messages and Warnings A colored panel below the topic tree now shows any required informational messages on startup and subsequently provides access to a set of tips on BT usage. If a sync file is out of date the panel shows a 'Warning' message and provides a shortcut to the refresh function with a single click. ## Minor UI changes In addition to the above: - Some colors have been tweaked to improve contrast and readability. - The application as a whole now does a better job of handling wide and narrow Topic Manager windows. - The topic card editor makes better use of space and use a fixed width font to improve org-mode compatibility. # Welcome to BrainTool 0.9.9 ## New Look and Feel including a Dark Mode ## Re-organized Saver Tool ## Compact Mode ## "Open in New Window" Tool

Latest reviews

(2024-04-30) 海柱: 感觉这个扩展程序好牛，看视频也感觉很强大，但是可惜的是没有中文版，显示不了中文，完全看不懂。不然我估计会用到这个书签管理器。可惜，哎
(2024-03-15) Ben: Although its a semi difficult productivity tool/extension, its because of the seemingly endless options of functionality and possibilities. Use your database for Bookmarking, clips, notes/docs/forms and messaging....ANYTHING. Thank you
(2023-11-05) Stephen: Program is incomprehensible. No idea how to use it, no instructions that make any sense.
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(2022-09-20) Alec: Been looking at a variety of tools as a decent bookmark manager. This seems to be finally what I have been searching for, have tried partizion(is ok), skeema (also impressive, but insists on a google sign in), whereas BrainTool is much more private, but can use a synced text file on Google Drive. Complex to initially use, you need to spend 5 minutes, working out what you are doing, but once you understood it, it is brilliant. Recommend to any one with a large number of tabs, and sites(pages) that you want to keep. Seems to still be in active development, and improving.
(2022-07-14) Alex: Open source with org-mode syntax! What's not to love? The one thing I wish I had was session management, i.e. populating BT with what's currently open in your browser. It's a planned feature though!
(2022-06-24) Alex: As I've been searching for more integrated and flexible functionality to manage content and tasks across contexts (tabs/bookmarks/links, notes, files, folder/tag/topic hierarchies, to-dos, project research/wikis etc, combining features of Tabs Outliner, Session Buddy, Edge Vertical Tabs, OneNote Markdown, Obsidian, LogSeq…), this BrainTool extension looks super promising! I've started using it quite recently and would still need many of the planned features to make it work end-to-end. But I do like the approach and roadmap. Especially looking forward to these already planned items: • Multi-file Support • Syncing Tree moves with Tab moves • Tags and Bi-Directional Linking. Another very useful feature would be exporting/importing a selected node (with multiple sub-topics and links) by using shortcuts (such as Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V) or drag & drop to other applications e.g. a text editor (similar to what Tabs Outliner does). Thank you! Please keep it up!
(2022-06-15) Matthew: I've been looking for a better bookmark solution than the built-in defaults for Chrome and Edge. This has turned out to be the ultimate solution. I can break everything down by topic, see all the duplicates I've accumulated, and just keep it clean and simple. No folders to click through, just pure organization of the chaos that can be bookmarks!
(2022-02-20) Dave: The computer gods have smiled upon me! I've literally been searching for months to find the "perfect" tool to manage all my topics, bookmarks, links, resources, etc. I work for a large tech company and I run a businessl, so I have a LOT of information to manage. There's always new stuff to add, and existing links seem to be in constant need of updating. BrainTool makes this brain-dead simple (pardon the pun)! I'm also a huge fan of open source software and anything that uses plain text so I can avoid having my data locked in by proprietary file formats. So you can imagine my excitement when I learned BrainTool stores everything in a text file using org-mode format. Genius! I've installed it in three browsers on two different computers and tested syncing via Google Drive. I also edited the underlying text file using LogSeq and then refreshed/reloaded the file in BrainTool. It's awesome! I've already started converting everything over to BrainTool and ditching other methods.
(2022-02-20) Mauder,: Awesome browser add-on for managing topics, bookmarks, and all sorts of information related to those items. Open-source, plain text format, how much better could it get?? Works great so far, and I love being able to control everything with keyboard shortcuts. I've already removed all my actual browser bookmarks after importing them into BrainTool.
(2022-02-20) Robinson,: Braintool made my bookmark management intuitive, scalable for depth and breadth of nesting using topic cards, subjects, interdependent areas, and easily portable across all my Chromium-based browsers.
(2022-02-13) Cory-Paul: Love it! The topic management aspect has created a much better experience for my tab management needs. I found BrainTool partly because of my desire to refine my browser choices, partly out of my need to have a higher degree of tab organization. There is active, transparent development and accessibility to developers and other users. It is built on a text file foundation, with the many advantages that provides.
(2022-01-17) Holgi: It's a powerful tool but very confusing/overblown and not bug free
(2022-01-12) 黎: A very easy-to-use bookmark management plugin, efficient, concise, and feature-rich.
(2022-01-11) l: This is a very good plugin to manage my bookmarks, very intuitive to see what type. Highly recommend
(2022-01-11) ahiven0603: 非常好用，好评！很强大！
(2021-12-29) Zhichao: As a long term orgmode user, this plugin is a god sent. It integrated naturally to my daily workflow where everything is managed using plain text file. I will be migrating my bookmarks from raindrop.io soon.
(2021-12-29) Fuchs: Nice tool for knowledge management. Combination of onetab, session manager. Intuitive interface.
(2021-12-05) Josh: Awesome tool! It works great as a launchpad, tab organizer, and mindmap.
(2021-11-06) Matt: Over the last several years I have tried every 'tab management' plugin I can find. Most free, some paid, but none of them have managed tabs in a manner which feels optimal for me. I have always worked from home or come back from the office and continued to work. For me that means that I have a dozens of co-mingled work and personal tabs. When Microsoft Edge made vertical tabs available, that was a boon for me only for the added real-estate for which I could readily see all the tabs in my browser. I've tried using separate Edge windows with topic specific tabs. Even then I found that trying to simplify the windows to topics cluttered my Desktop with too many windows. BrainTool does both a great job of automatically keeping tabs grouped when organized together *and* makes it easy to categorize tabs. Alt+b brings up a quick search window of which you get suggested tags as you type. Reminds me of the "Tabs Outliner" extension, but better. Keep up the development!
(2021-10-24) Vivian: Good bookmark management tool! Suitable for programmers. I can integrate a lot of my fragmented data. And because I can import tab outliner, it's very convenient for me. A lightweight but important plugin that I love! Looking forward to the 1.0 update, he has been replaced by Tab Outliner.
(2021-10-07) Daniel: The ability to organize all my webpages in categories so I can get quick access is no longer a nice to have for me--it is an essential tool. It is simple, easy to work with, and efficient. Thanks to the developer(s)!
(2021-09-19) Richard: Oh my gosh this is exactly the extension I've been searching for. It consolidates my tabs into something usable! FINALLY! It's simple yet effective in presenting the windows and tabs correctly!
(2021-09-04) Robert: I've finally found my ultimate weapon of organization! Countless note apps, add-ons, etc have been through my browsers, but this is the one I will settle with. Perfect for a field mechanic in 2021. Simple, yet effective and feature filled. I can't say enough. A+ and this is still early!
(2021-08-10) Jorge: Finally! After years of using Tabs Outliner and dealing with the frustration of the author having basically abandoned it, and having tried almost every other tab management extension I could find, this is the one that I finally believe is on the right track. What a great start. It saves the data to a FILE in your Google Drive, which has a # of key advantages over Tabs Outliner: 1) Instead of depending on the Google account like Tabs Outliner -- which makes it break on Microsoft Edge, it writes the data to a plain file on your Google My Drive. Thus it works on any browser. 2) That file is thus accessible from any other profile or browser or computer, even Edge, and therefore you have "sync" across all your devices! It's not "instant" and you do have to "refresh" when you switch browsers, but that's a small inconvenience for being able to do it at all. Several other advantages over Tabs Outliner, but Edge restrict the length of reviews so can't post here. Highly recommended!
(2021-07-28) Richard: I had been on a browser/bookmarking/tab hunt for sometime. You brought the description field back that I loved in Firefox. A research tool if you will as I can open groups and add to them fairly quickly and close without thought of loosing anything. I didn't think I would like it at first until I started using it. I saw how easy it was to bookmark and group things rapidly. Also, it had been some time since I utilized Emacs. With the org file I was compelled to install and play around similar to how you described either in the discussion group or your website. Keep up the awesome work. So thanks.

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