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Checkboxes and Checkcircles
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 bankOr you might have a list of book chapters that you want to check off as you…
4 votes -
Copy and pasting PNG icons
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.
7 votes -
Restore Built In Screenshot Capture in v15
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…
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Do more with the thought appearances.
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 -
"Composed" view of child thought notes
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.…
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Allow embedding attached images in the Note
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:
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…
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timeline feature: start using or viewing, choose from time intervals of 1,000 years, 100 years, 50 years, 25 years, and 10 years
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!2 votes -
Set Categories for Events
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 -
Fix LaTex.
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 -
A whiteboard diagram type
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 -
additional integration of the free version of the Mistral-Vibe AI (fast) Chat-Software, GDPR-compliant
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 -
Expose Events to TheBrain Local API
Allow TheBrain Local API to read, write and create Events.
4 votes -
Add Full Callout Menu Keyboard Shortcut
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.
4 votes -
Adjusting settings: Layout spacing
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.
1 vote -
Manually set thought creation date
When creating a new thought, or pasting an older thought after copying, it would be massively liberating for workflow to be able to set a toggle to manually define thought date.
3 votes -
Ability to set basic paragraph formatting in notes
Notes can seem cluttered and run-together with single line spacing. I often manually, or now using Cerebro, add blank lines between tabbed or bulleted lines for more clarity and ease of reading. Enabling some basic paragraph formatting would save a good bit of time and trouble.
5 votes -
Deep linking
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 -
Multiple Language Settings in notes
I am using a non-English language in TheBrain. Many notes are in this local language. But a considerable number of Thoughts and notes are in English.
This means that almost all the text in the note is underlined in red by spell checker, as the English language is not recognized. If There was an option to use both languages or to shift between them, working with texts would be easier.3 votes -
option to use 24-hour formats in Timeline and Reminders!
Please add a setting that allows users to display times in the Timeline and Reminders using the 24-hour format, e.g. 13:00 instead of 1:00 PM.
The existing custom date/time format for notes does not affect the Timeline or Reminders. Ideally, this should follow the user’s regional settings or be configurable independently.1 vote -
Rename Notes.md files to match the thought's name
I often use tools other than TheBrain to search the notes in my Brain. The problem is that if I'm searching in, say the Mac's Finder, the search result is nothing but a list of Notes.md files. (see attached)
I would love it if those files could be named in some way that they could be more easily identifed.
2 votes
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