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1. 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

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2. 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 from their app design that others are already mimicking.

   See the attached image that may give you an idea of the absolute simplicity of their approach. If I was to use Tana as my PKM app, I'd be happily using their Tana Capture app.

   I would envisage a capture tool to be a quick capture function as an app that directly syncs with TB box so that users could decide to categorize at their leisure.

   I do blab, and just want to see TB do better at capturing quick ideas.

   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… more

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3. 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.

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4. Filter a view that would show only pending to do items.

   Filter a view to show all pending (or checked) to-do items. Currently, the right-panel tells me how many pending to dos there are, but then shows all items, pending and checked. I'd like to see only pending. Or, I'd like to see only checked.

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5. 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.

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6. 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.

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7. 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 your content.

   In essence, this would enable TheBrain to be used in a more content-focused mode, rather than primarily only a thought navigation mode that also happens to supports notes.

   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… more

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8. Add API endpoint to add images that are use in a note's markdown.

   The /attachments/{brainId}/{thoughtId}/file can be used to upload files. But everything uploaded through that endpoint is visible as an attachment.
   Looking at a note with an embedded .png, I saw those are stored in a .data subfolder - so we need a new endpoint (or an enhanced version of the one I mentioned) to allow saving files there.

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9. Enable a static Outline View (disable animations)

   Add an option to simply deactivate the animations and keep the outline view permanently expanded (while allowing for manual expanding/collapsing of branches as desired), instead of automatically collapsing all other thoughts whenever a subthought is made active. Basically, working ALL THE TIME way it works when the root thought is active.

   The Mind Map view sort of works like this, except it willy-nilly switches thoughts between right and left to "maintain visual balance", which is also not configurable.

   So what I'm looking for is the strict left-to-right orientation of the Outline View (which is great) plus the stability of the Mind Map view (which is also great!)

   As it is now, it's a bit maddening, like trying to work with a file system where the files dance around like moths while you're trying to look at them. So much thought was given to options like fine-tuning the animation speed, which is great, but the much simpler option to disable it entirely was neglected!

   Add an option to simply deactivate the animations and keep the outline view permanently expanded (while allowing for manual expanding/collapsing of branches as desired), instead of automatically collapsing all other thoughts whenever a subthought is made active. Basically, working ALL THE TIME way it works when the root thought is active.

   The Mind Map view sort of works like this, except it willy-nilly switches thoughts between right and left to "maintain visual balance", which is also not configurable.

   So what I'm looking for is the strict left-to-right orientation of the Outline View (which is great) plus the stability of the… more

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10. Statistics Improvements and Options

    Allow the option to count tags not just thoughts as links, and even have a feature to trend statistics over time, to see how the brain is evolving.

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11. The brain as a reading tool - able to directly support note-taking process.

    --> (1) First of all - visualisation of e-books.

    Currently, only PDF files are being visualised in the notes section. All other files are represented by a file name and an icon. In order to become a research and reading platform, more file types must be visualized.

    And this is not difficult, as the visualisation code is available in open-source communities for free.

    The following document types should be readable within Thebrain application:

    type status Importance
    PDF is visible, High supports reading
    EPUB To add High supports reading

    🛠 How Hard Would It Be for TheBrain to Add Support? (Chatgpt-answer)

    • EPUB – Moderate Effort

      Use epub.js (JavaScript library) to render inside TheBrain’s web-like view.

      Would likely require embedding a web component and adding some formatting controls.

      Reasonably doable, especially on desktop (Electron-based frontend).

    With these two types, 99% of documents will be visualised and immediately readable in Thebrain.

    --> (2) As a reader and researcher, I miss a very important functionality in Thebrain. We miss the combination of an open document (.PDF or .EPUB) and an open notes canvas beside each other. This would allow a real note-taking process within Thebrain. Currently, when reading e-books, we need to have to use external readers and note-taking apps and import the results into Thebrain. But Thebrain could offer the situation as presented in Figure 2. It would be easy to copy specific sentences out of the book into a note. (Figure 1)

    --> (3) Adding some extra functionality like:
    - returning to the position in the 'book and notes combination' in order to re-instate the last working context and be able to work further where we left off.
    - possibility to annotate within the e-books. Also, the possibility to visualise all annotations in a list and, by selection, go to their position in the document.

    One thought further is that it would be great to have defined layouts in the brain:
    Example:

    • Default mode:
      Where you have the plex and notes canvas, allowing the basic behaviour using Thebrain. (Figure 1)
      This mode already exists.

    • Reading mode:
      where you have both the document you want to read and a notes canvas together. When saving, both the context where you left is saved, and the note is saved as a child thought under the thought of the e-book. (Figure 2)

    • Presentation mode:
      where you can present a stream of thoughts with their corresponding notes combined with plex-views that has been created ahead.

    This include the definition of a presentation stream:
    Define stream: <Stream-name>
    1. Thought 1 - visualise plex and note
    2. Thought 2 - visualise plex and note
    3. Plex-view - view plex content only
    4. View figure - view a specific figure within a note - (graphics)

    To start: goto presentation mode and start the stream <stream-name>, this stream could be played automatically or manually.

    --> (1) First of all - visualisation of e-books.

    Currently, only PDF files are being visualised in the notes section. All other files are represented by a file name and an icon. In order to become a research and reading platform, more file types must be visualized.

    And this is not difficult, as the visualisation code is available in open-source communities for free.

    The following document types should be readable within Thebrain application:

    type status Importance
    PDF is visible, High supports reading
    EPUB To add High supports reading

    🛠 How Hard Would It Be for TheBrain to Add Support? (Chatgpt-answer)

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12. Connection per API with Citavi (Literature administration).

    Citavi is widely used as a reference management tool in academic environments. I would prefer a close interface so that TheBrain can also be used for academic work.

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13. Bigger max range for Timeline

    At the moment the biggest unit on the screen when you max zoom out is year. Should be at least century! I understand that most of the people are rarely need more than a year of navigation, but for historical events it would be so nice to have at least an option to have several centuries on screen!

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14. There’s a good Markdown App Taio only works on Apple, you guys should acquire and integrate the two as stand alone apps or sync and heavily

    Taio is pretty much one of the few apps you can copy from AI like Perplexity and Copilot, if pastes as a markdown with * all over, by changing the view type it’s clean and can be copied into word etc.. love their box for code, clean and neat, lots of different types of code to choose from

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15. Sync so Notion works with the Brain leveraging the Brains functions in notion and vice versa
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16. Multiline-Thoughts

    i often have very long thoughts... not single words or short phrases
    but i want to see the whole thought and not look at the markdown notes...
    please alow header text to be split into multiple lines within one thought

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17. 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 a THOUGHT or place to sort lately.
    Create rules to sort and move to a specific THOUGHT, exactly as they exist in the mailboxes.
    For me the BB today is nice but unusefulness for this reason.
    You may say it works perfectly in the Desktop, but not in my Motorola, for sure!!
    It should work in a cellphone perfectly, not only in iPhones.

    Thank you...

    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… more

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18. 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.

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19. Transclusion

    Further to the forum post here: https://forums.thebrain.com/post/transclusion-of-notes-of-other-thoughts-12485147

    I would like to see transclusion of notes added to TheBrain. i.e., the process of referencing one thought "A" from another thought "B" such that the content of "A" appears to be a part of "B".

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20. Generative AI Integration for the whole Brain and its Language

    To elevate TheBrain's capabilities in its next version, we propose an advanced integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) that deeply understands and utilizes the application's unique structures—Plex and Notes. This integration aims to transform TheBrain into a more intuitive and powerful tool for knowledge management and creative workflows.

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    1. Context-Aware AI Agents

    a. Deep Integration with Plex and Notes

    • Global Contextual Understanding: Enable AI to access and interpret the entire brain's structure, allowing for more coherent and contextually relevant content generation.
    • Semantic Awareness: Allow AI to recognize and utilize the relationships between thoughts, enhancing the relevance of generated content.

    b. Modular AI Agents with "@" Mentions

    • Specialized Agents: Introduce agents like @plex, @note, and @summarize to handle specific tasks. For example:
      • @plex: Generates or restructures thought hierarchies.
      • @note: Creates or edits note content.
      • @summarize: Provides summaries of selected thoughts or notes.

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    2. Interactive and Clickable Prompts

    • Dynamic Prompting: Implement prompts that can be clicked to trigger specific AI actions, such as expanding a thought or generating related content.
    • Contextual Suggestions: Offer AI-generated prompt suggestions based on the current thought or note context.

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    3. Configurable LLM Integration

    • Custom Model Selection: Allow users to integrate their own API keys and choose preferred LLMs (e.g., OpenAI's GPT-4, Anthropic's Claude).
    • Parameter Adjustments: Provide settings to adjust AI behavior, such as creativity levels, response length, and tone.

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    4. Enhanced Prompt Engineering Interface

    • Prompt Templates: Offer reusable templates for common tasks, streamlining the content generation process.
    • Prompt History and Management: Maintain a history of prompts and their outputs, allowing users to revisit and refine previous interactions.

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    5. Advanced Content Generation Features

    • Chain-of-Thought Reasoning: Implement AI capabilities that simulate step-by-step reasoning, enhancing the depth of generated content.
    • Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG): Combine LLMs with retrieval systems to generate content grounded in existing brain data.

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    6. User Experience Enhancements

    • Visual Indicators: Clearly label AI-generated content within the Plex and Notes to distinguish it from user-created content.
    • Feedback Mechanisms: Allow users to provide feedback on AI outputs, facilitating continuous improvement of AI performance.

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    By implementing these features, TheBrain can offer a more intelligent, responsive, and user-centric experience, further solidifying its position as a leading tool for knowledge management and creative exploration.

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    To elevate TheBrain's capabilities in its next version, we propose an advanced integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) that deeply understands and utilizes the application's unique structures—Plex and Notes. This integration aims to transform TheBrain into a more intuitive and powerful tool for knowledge management and creative workflows.

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    1. Context-Aware AI Agents

    a. Deep Integration with Plex and Notes

    • Global Contextual Understanding: Enable AI to access and interpret the entire brain's structure, allowing for more coherent and contextually relevant content generation.
    • Semantic Awareness: Allow AI to recognize and utilize the relationships between thoughts, enhancing the relevance of generated… more
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