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  1. Separate background customization from thought Types

    Currently the only way to customize thought backgrounds, a valid use case on its own, is by assigning a type that has one associated by it. This renders the typing system useless.

    So for my (creative) work flow, I want to assign backgrounds and types, but they are not linked. Types are supposed to work cross cutting across the plex, but this breaks if your background-requirements are not exactly the same.

    It would make more sense to have background simply a property of thought itself. Or of tags with some sort of priority system, but that would be complicated in…

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  2. Extend report concept to become dynamic plex filters

    The reporting function allows you to choose a combination of types, tags, and search criteria to return a set of matching Thoughts. Suggestion is to extend this concept to filter the set of visible Thoughts and Links in the Plex.

    Examples:

    • Select the ":Location" type and view the plex geographically, showing customer sites and navigating via cities, countries, and regions. Disable the filter to bring all the other context back.

    • Select either "#Services" or "#Licenses" to view sales opportunities relating to services projects or license sales.

    • Select ":Person" type and "#ReportsTo" tag to generate an org chart view. Add ":Location"…

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  3. Add support for MathJax formulas, just like ANKI.

    Both thoght nodes and notes support MathJax mathematical formulas to solve the problem of inability to input in subjects such as physics and chemistry. In addition, the formulas can support Chinese and other non-English characters.

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  4. MArkdown

    Github Markdown Language converter of all posted images

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  5. Sort thoughts by number of links

    What I would Iike to be able to do is to find the thoughts that have the most links. I'm thinking that in the Report view area, at the top, there would be a way to sort the thoughts by number of links.
    I know in the Statistics I can see the average number of links per thought, but I want to know which thought is the "most popular".

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  6. iOS Widgets with Thought Note Content or List of Thoughts

    I'd love to see an iOS widget for TheBrain that displays the note content of a selected thought and another option to list the last x number of created, modified, or accessed thoughts. I'm only asking to show the data. Tapping on the note would bring you to the thought note in TheBrain, and tapping the thought name in the list option would open that thought.

    Apple Notes widgets are excellent examples of a thought note content widgets. I've attached an example of the Thought Note Content.

    Widgets enable background sync for the app on iOS, which could be an…

    4 votes
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  7. GPT o3 mini

    Since, the new model by Open AI is launched and its relatively cheaper their its previous model. Is there any roadmap to adding o3 mini on the upcoming version?

    This provides larger context windows and better reasoning model which will be great addition to TheBrain while expanding our Mindmaps and thinking

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  8. adding BrainBox to the right click Context menu on web browsers

    I think adding BrainBox to the right click Context menu on web browsers would be a great and much needed improvement.

    Often times I search and find a link I want to add to Brainbox, but don't want to open the URL. I'm well aware of drag and drop, but that does no good when you use apps in full screen, I'm also aware you can Alt+Tab to TheBrain while in full screen while dragging the link, but if you have a lot of apps open, this is not feasible.

    Adding BrainBox to the apps area (See SingleFile) of the…

    3 votes
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  9. I would like a command or button that would create a new daily note, with a name based on a format I configure, based on my template.

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  10. Detector for broken links to external files

    This is an old idea/request: Please make it possible to generate a report for thoughts with links to external files that do not exist at that location any more.
    This is a must have for me.
    Also a report for broken URL attachments would be nice.
    I guess, the process of generating this report would be slow, but it would be worth the wait.

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  11. Remote Management of Brain Installations for Security

    In addition to the essential Two Factor Authentication capability implemented, we should have management of Brain installations available from account settings. This particular admin capability should also specifically require 2FA to open and then allow remote management / remote delete of brains / remote un-installation etc.

    The use-case example is installing TheBrain on additional devices for use with online or local brains but in case of loss of tablet or a device, TheBrain should be able to be managed remotely from the user account so that should TheBrain be opened by a third party on a lost device, the software…

    2 votes
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  12. Features to add to mobile app

    Calendar should be visible in mobile apps, we should be able to edit link labels/name thought relationships in the mobile apps.

    Basically, if we want to put all our thoughts out in the brain but we cannot access it on our phone app (since a laptop/ipad is not portable all the time), it makes it less useful. The phone app should be a close replica of the desktop app to really make thebrain more useful to the users. Thanks.

    11 votes
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  13. Gamification Skill Tree View

    To keep up with something that is out there, and where The Brain could leap forward into a new paradigm.

    Create a "Skill Tree" view, which resembles skill trees that can be built in video games.

    Add some graphics options such as thought shapes and zero text options.

    We already have the option to modify the plex to have interesting backgrounds, so that isn't needed.

    Being able to toggle text on and off, replacing it with an image. If you had the ability to use .png files for the images, then you could actually end up with very dynamic looking…

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  14. Is it possible to create a knowledge graph of an entire brain?

    I have a lot of internal documents, many nodes and links. I would like to use some knowledge graph tools to sort and cluster things in ways that can be done with knowledge graphs.

    3 votes
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  15. New Feature

    Provide support for X Cards. https://developer.x.com/en/docs/x-for-websites/cards/overview/player-card

    This would allow users to embed Brains or elements of brains perhaps, into posts on X.

    With X Communities beginning to take off, this would make use of TheBrain as a value add to communities.

    This would help on other communities too, like Skool.

    3 votes
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  16. Match web client note formatting with the desktop

    Our previous web client faithfully replicated ALL of the note styling and formatting from the desktop.

    This duplication was lost with the launch of Vulcan, and I would very much like to see it restored.

    This duplication would include:
    * All note background colors (including replacing the default grey background)
    * All note fonts
    * Much, MUCH lighter weight horizontal rules that do not dominate the page

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  17. Button to (temporarily) disable navigation in any Layout

    The Mindmap Layout is unique in that clicking and activating a node doesn't navigate to it. For bulk thought updates (like renumbering them for example, or mass note updates), this is super useful!

    But why not enable this mode of thought activation in any Layout? There's plenty of space next to the Layout button to switch between 'normal' mode and 'locked navigation' mode.

    Or else allow a ctrl-shift click on a thought (or similar) to activate without navigating.

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  18. In TB15, keep the folder names and other structures that exist in TB14

    You changed the folder names during the TB8 to TB9 update, and I lost all of the links that existed between Word documents that were housed in TB8. So I have to have all my TB8 content in the TB8 structure, and now TB8 isn't supported and doesn't work. So I can only access through Windows Explorer. Please don't repeat this.

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  19. Allow for recurring or scheduled tasks that show up in the TO DO list on the scheduled date

    This functionality would be allow for recurring tasks or scheduled tasks to appear when needed, and stay in the To Do list until clicked/completed. This is a standard feature of all task management software such as apple reminders.

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  20. Add Photo Meta data to Note

    Access to photo meta data would help both documentation and search for organizing photo artifacts

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