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  1. Make it so much easier to create a note on the fly

    I take notes on the fly using other products and it's a stupid shame that I rarely use TB to do so. Doesn't it make sense to laser focus in on a shortened process for users and potential users to be able to view TB as the ideal note taking product/service that competes head on with the plethora of note taking apps that shall ultimately disappear? I like the idea of The Brain Box being re-imagined as the in-box for ideas and web snapshots to be used later when using TB desktop or web client.

    82 votes
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  2. Please make the following changes to the web client interface

    (1) HIDE the admin features from public (logged out) view. Public readers of a shared brain do not need access to these features, and they only add to the confusion of an already unusual interface.
    * To-Do List
    * Reports

    (2) Move the Home icon to the far left of the toolbar (between the name of the brain and the thought type icon). This is where most users are going to look when they want to navigate back home.

    (3) Move the Pins icon back to its previous location, immediately to the right of the tags icon. From a design…

    8 votes
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  3. Manual Sorting for Thoughts

    Add the ability to manually sort thoughts under a parent.
    Currently can use hidden numbering, however this is hard to maintain if the sorting needs to be adjusted, especially changing number in the middle of the sort.

    59 votes
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  4. Send Email to BrainBox

    Expand BrainBox to be a universal inbox and allow multiple ways for stuff to arrive.

    One being Email!

    Either general Inbox or 1 inbox/Brain.

    37 votes
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  5. A flexible layout that can be saved and reloaded

    For example, the expanded view in version 8 allowed saving and loading of a user-configurable set of thoughts set at particular locations.

    47 votes
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  6. Improve backlink (unlinked mention) recognition, by allowing thoughts to have aliases

    Sometimes you have thoughts that have some formal longer name, like there are companies named "International Consolidated Airlines Group SA" in real life. But when you refer to it in your notes with a shorter name, the reference won't be recognized.

    Now, you don't want to fully write out this name each time, but you also don't want to manually create a link each time you write shorter version like "ICAG SA", not only would that be a work-around, often you actually don't want to create a clickable link at all and just leave it with a dotted underline, but…

    39 votes
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  7. Enable AI to Summarize PDFs into Notes

    I save many PDFs as child thoughts under a parent that describes the area of research those pdfs are relevant to. It would be useful for AI note generation to be able to use the contents of the PDFs. In this way a thought that contains a PDF could have a summary of the PDF as a note and I wouldn't have to open the PDF and read it entirely to know what it contains. Similarly, the parent though could contain a summary of the PDFs contained in its child thoughts. While I have focussed here on PDFs, this could…

    31 votes
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  8. Make any animation/movie file continuously playable in a loop inside Thebrain (eventually switch on/off)

    Make any animation/movie file continuously playable in a loop inside Thebrain

    Almost any other software that is able to play movies has an option to loop the file your watching continuously. Not Thebrain... GIF / MP4 / MOV / ... doesn't matter, just add an option to loop the content independent from the platform (browser/desktop) your using, please!

    Best Regards

    Jean-Marc

    10 votes
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  9. Interlink All Jumps

    When a bunch of thoughts are added to selection, add a function, "Interlink All Jumps". This would make every thought that are jumps of one thought, link with all the other thoughts in that jump batch. Then when you jumped to another thought, the same jumps are also attached to the newly activated thought, and every thought in that selection.

    12 votes
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  10. A Linux version of TheBrain for Linux Users

    I'm a Linux Fedora Plasma user - a Linux version of TheBrain would be highly useful & more practical to me and potentially several, many others.

    5 votes
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  11. Enable diagrams in notes via Mermaid

    Similar to how it is supported in GitHub. See https://mermaid.js.org/

    28 votes
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  12. Make the brain linux-compatible1

    After the experience of the past 5 years people are moving away from large corporations; they no longer trust them. The drive towards independence and personal control is leading to Increasing numbers of people choosing linux. By releasing a linux version you will grow your business and contribute to greater levels of freedom & autonomy.

    10 votes
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  13. Thought Encryption

    It would be helpful to be able to encrypt individual thoughts. This should include the granular choice of encrypting:

    • Thought name (I know, that might be weird from a usability perspective)
    • Notes
    • URL Links
    • Attachments

    Well, I guess basically everything.

    9 votes
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  14. I would like to be able to change link types all at once, similar to being able to changing types all at once.

    I would like to be able to change link types all at once, similar to being able to changing types all at once. You can go to a parent thought and link all to children, so I think by this same logic you should be able to easily implement something like a change multiple link types at once. I use this a lot for families and showing lines of succession. I have siblings and spouses, children, etc. Having something like this would quickly be able to make my link type visible as something like "Sibling", "Parent/Child" or "Spouse". Out of…

    36 votes
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  15. Make the Pin bar full screen and/or two lines deep

    With many people working on large monitors, the Pin bar could be much more powerful. Please consider making it full screen width. Part 2 is to make it two lines deep via pulling down with the cursor. Related forum post

    https://forums.thebrain.com/post/could-you-please-make-the-pin-bar-and-history-bar-fullcreen-wide-8288-13374940

    26 votes
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  16. Introduce a really TheBrain AI assistant

    The way AI is implemented in theBrain is not a really assistant as e.g. Github Copilot. So it should have agents e.g. prompts starting with "@" and context ones e.g. prompts start with "/" which shall replace the existent ones in "notes" tool. Also as an AI assistant as a chat.

    29 votes
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  17. Idea capture

    I've been using TB for 20 years; yup I'm an original.

    As may seem logical, as much as TB is my virtual office space; I use other products and they inspire me to view their functions and capabilities that would fit nicely into TB without it seeming to be some kind of copy of competing products.

    I trialled Tana app recently, and as much as it's to me just another complex PKM product that simply cannot rival TB, it has a rather awesome mobile device app called Tana Capture and I am super convinced we Brain users would benefit immensely…

    20 votes
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  18. Let the note editor seamlessly work with selection of thoughts, editing continuous content

    Currently, the note editor is restricted to the 'active' thought. However, I would like to edit thought notes in an integrated continuous way (like the scrivenings mode in Scrivener). This would allow me to work on content more easily that is distributed across notes (such as scenes of a novel.

    The notes could be separated with a dotted line for example, and when moving in the note editor to other notes, the relevant thought in the plex is navigated to automatically. This would be amazing, as you would always have your relevant brain-part available to you as you focus on…

    35 votes
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  19. Some Tips for the BrainBox

    I usually use the BB to keep ideas, comments, URLs, images, and so on, from LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, Captures made by my phone - always in the phone. Now I have a BB full of material, and I hate to go there, and begin to understand what did I kept that or for what.
    I suggest:
    Rename the link (it does not work properly in my Android-Motorola Edge 40 Pro), and make it work, perhaps beginning with a key such as two or three characters...
    then sort the info in the BB, and all those could be massive taken to…

    1 vote
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  20. For the Desktop app, include Tag and Type for the thought in the Notes

    I have several thoughts with several tags and the desktop plex becomes crowded. I would like the option to display the tags and type of a though in the notes and not show on the plex below the thought. I know this works in the web and app version, but I would like it in the desktop version also.

    2 votes
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