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  1. What if TheBrain had two different check controls: checkboxes and checkcircles?

    ☐ Checkbox = Todo - Works as it does now and appears in TheBrain's Todo list.

    ◯ Checkcircle = non-Todo - You can check and uncheck it just like a checkbox, but it never appears in the Todo list.

    Sometimes a checkable item isn't something you need to do. It might represent a status, condition, or progress. For example:

    ☐ Contact vendor about outstanding check
    ◯ Check has cleared the vendor's bank

    Or you might have a list of book chapters that you want to check off as you…

    4 votes
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  2. I have several icons that are a PNG image with a transparent background. When I select the thought with the icon and copy it and paste this icon into another thought, the transparency is lost.

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  3. Several longtime users miss the old built in screenshot / Insert Image workflow.

    The current OS screenshot method works, but it does not feel equal for heavy screenshot users. What used to be one smooth action inside TheBrain now takes more clicks and keypresses, sometimes turning into three or four steps depending on the user’s setup.

    For users who capture images while thinking, writing, researching, or building notes, those extra steps break their flow and slow down a workflow they had built into TheBrain for years.

    Please consider restoring a direct built in screenshot capture option in TheBrain 15, so…

    12 votes
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  4. Hi,

    Being a veteran mindmap builder I like to put lots of colours in my brains. Especially the text colours of thoughts I like to differentiate a lot (as well as the background colours).

    A couple of things bother me on that level:
    First: The labels can't have the colour of the thought (...or a different colour)
    Second: In the notes area of a thought, it's name and label are not inheriting the allocated colours of the thought text.

    This would greatly enhance the unity feeling of the whole. You can choose for hero icons in the note but it…

    7 votes
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  5. Current visualisation problem:
    Dense or large brains make it difficult to remember where the current view sits within the overall knowledge structure. Conventional zoom mainly changes scale; it does not adapt the amount or meaning of information shown, so large views become cluttered and small views become uninformative.

    Proposed improvement:
    Provide a persistent, interactive mini-map showing the whole brain or selected region, the current viewport, major clusters, and the active thought. Make zoom levels semantic: show detailed thoughts nearby, summarized groups at medium scale, and major domains or supernodes at global scale.

    Expected benefit:
    Users retain global orientation, recover context…

    3 votes
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  6. I would like to optionally select a parent thought and in the content area of that thought TheBrain would show of "composed" view of all the notes from the parent's children. So if thought A has children A1, A2, and A3, with A1 and A3 having content (text, embedded images, diagrams, transcluded thought, etc.) but A2 has none, then the note area of the A's content display would display, in thought order, the contents of A1 and A3. If I manually reorganized the children to the order A2, A3, A1, then the content area of A would also be rearranged.…

    4 votes
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  7. Say I create a thought for the new microwave I just bought. I drag a photo into the thought as an attachment, along with a PDF receipt and maybe an email or two. Now, within the note, I'd like to see the photo, not just in the list of attachments. At one point, I would just create a Markdown link to the image like this:

    ![](my-new-microwave.jpg)
    

    That worked for a while, but doesn't now. When I add that markup, the brackets end up escaped, .e.g:

    `!\[\](my-new-microwave.jpg)`
    

    Currently, the only way I know how to it is to drag/paste a copy…

    9 votes
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  8. To use the timeline feature for historical purposes (or, for example, to display family trees, etc.), users should be able to choose from time intervals of 1,000 years, 100 years, 50 years, 25 years, and 10 years.
    Right now, it takes quite a bit of effort to use "thoughts," "types," and "tags" to achieve a good presentation and linking of such data sets.
    Maybe all historians and genealogists could find happiness!

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  9. It would be nice to set categories for events that we can inherit colours for.
    Currently I have to remember meetings = orange, holidays = green etc.

    I'd like the ability to specify categories (or types, but not linked to Thought Types) for events so I don't have to remember or manually assign the color.

    3 votes
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  10. Fix LaTex. It does not work and you know it does not work. It has been a Forum topic for years. And, it cannot be that hard to fix. This has been a problem since I first used theBrain many, many years ago. I am still a theBrain customer. I love everything about theBrain except, because of LaTex, I am continually going to something else (Obsidian is becoming my go to Note manager). I love theBrain and keep my subscription hoping that someday I will be able to use theBrain to manage my math notes.

    4 votes
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  11. Add a whiteboard diagram type. This would be especially useful on iOS / iPadOS so that we could use the Pencil (or alternative on Android, etc.) to sketch out ideas. At this time, we can do that in a separate app and copy an image to paste into the thought. But, I would be more useful to create and edit the whiteboard from TheBrain itself.

    6 votes
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  12. One of the interesting features of Obsidian (and some other stuff) is the ability to deep-link to specific paragraphs of notes. I can write a note and link a statement to a paragraph in another note. Or, even transclude that other-note paragraph into the note I am writing.

    In addition to this, other aspects of deep linking needed in TheBrain include:

    ~ Section anchors that would correspond with the existing section headers used in the TOC
    ~ Bookmarks that could be placed at the paragraph level
    ~ Transclusions (amazing!)

    Please add these deep linking features to TheBrain? For me it's…

    10 votes
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  13. I wrote an email to TheBrain's support team yesterday inquiring about how AI API works in this app. Essentially, I praised them for the app itself (which is fantastic), but I expressed how the only thing that keeps me from using its AI chat (Cerebros) is how it seemingly only supports OpenAI's models. I genuinely don't want OpenAI and its models to meddle with my projects, so I inquired about the possibility of supporting local models or API keys from other services, companies.. (with OpenRouter being my biggest recommendation).

    Steven Rico (Part of TheBrain Support, God bless his soul) replied…

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  14. We need and use alternatives to ChatGPT and Anthropic (BigTech models) in Europe, which is why I suggest integrating Mistral-Vibe with TheBrain.
    https://mistral.ai/products/vibe/
    The French product Mistral-Vibe is GDPR-compliant and offers a wide range of user features even in the free version (custom agents, reminder function, connectors, libraries, etc.) for organizing projects in Mistral. This approach seems to align very well with TheBrain.
    It is likely slightly inferior to ChatGPT and Anthropic in terms of model performance. However, for the average user, the functionality is more than sufficient and satisfying, and it is one of the fastest AI chat programs…

    7 votes
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  15. Add a “Copy” button for TheBrain code blocks and callouts in their top-right corner were very handy.

    Unfortunately, this feature doesn’t seem to currently apply to TheBrain.

    It would be great if support could be added.

    A sample of implementation : https://github.com/jdbrice/obsidian-code-block-copy

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  16. Allow TheBrain Local API to read, write and create Events.

    4 votes
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  17. Please add an option to open the full Callout menu via a keyboard shortcut, with support for keyboard navigation of the menu and selection of a type, finally adding the type where the cursor was in the note.

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  18. Since the Quick Thought widget is gradually replacing (or maybe merging with) Brain Box, it would be a very useful feature to be able to send content to the Quick Thought client via the macOS share sheet. Examples:

    • select text on a web page, or in a document, or in any app that supports the share sheet, and send that thing to Quick Thought for later editing or/and addition to a Brain
    • same, except share a file from Finder via Quick Thought for later attachment to a thought in a Brain

    Essenential to this be useful is the ability to…

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  19. I would like to configure a thought to subscribe to an RSS feed. TheBrain when the sync button is clicked would download new thoughts for each new item in the feed. A configuration option could possibly limit the updates to X number of items so as not to flood TheBrain with child thoughts.

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  20. With v15, when I open settings from within a brain, it only remembers the "layout spacing" for that brain on the device on which it's loaded. This means I need to open every brain on every device and adjust the layout spacing which is tedious.

    An option to push layout spacing to all devices across all brains would be ideal.

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