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Custom AI API key and OpenRouter support
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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Add button to copy code block and Callouts content
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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Use macOS Share Sheet to Send Content to Quick Thought
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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Subscribe to RSS feeds
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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Global Orientation Mini-Map with Smart Level-of-detail Zoom capabilities
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 -
Bring back scroll sticking
Two or three versions ago (currently on 15.0.640.0, whenever I would scroll down the list of parents to the current thought and picking the parent I'm interested in, the list of parents would remain where I scrolled it to. Now, the list of parents jumps back to the top of the list after I make my selection. I really don't want to have to keep scrolling down every time. This is all in the plex view.
3 votes -
Bring back search terms staying in the search form after search performed.
Before this latest update (15.0.640.0), in the plex when adding a linked thought, the search term used was kept after the search was completed. In this update, that functionality was removed. I would like it back.
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Custom font for inline code, code editors, and Mermaid source editors
Recent versions of TheBrain have added customizable fonts for many parts of the app, but this doesn't yet include the monospace font used for inline code and code editors nor the modal Mermaid source editor.
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add a Callout to identify People (e.g., speakers/presenters, meeting attendees)
LOVE the new Callout feature! I regularly have thoughts to capture meeting notes or notes from presentations. It would be useful and nice to have a callout with an icon of a person (?) to capture the names of speakers or meeting attendees. This would be a way to highlight and keep them separate from the base notes.
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"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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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 -
Hide thoughts by type
It would be great if we could use thought types to filter the plex and turn off selected types.
3 votes -
Allow Thought Type Icons to Overwrite All Other Icons By Default
All of my thought types have assigned icons.
When I add a type to a thought, I would like to have a preference setting that would allow this assigned icon to automatically overwrite any other current thought icons (links, documents, images, etc.)
We used to have a similar option in previous versions of TheBrain, and I would like to see this option restored.
Thanks in advance.
3 votes -
Implement Ctrl-F/Cmd-F in the Embed thought.
Feature request: Ctrl-F/Cmd-F search currently doesn't reach the note content of embedded Thoughts. Since Embed is a new feature, could search indexing be extended to include embedded Thought notes? Right now a Thought's content becomes invisible to search once it's embedded inside another Thought, which is easy to miss when relying on Cmd-F to relocate something.
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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 -
Enable voice inputs?
On OSX and IOS no changes should be necessary, although some instructions on how to set it up may be required.
1 vote -
Meeting transcription
I'd like to request native audio recording and transcription for meetings directly within TheBrain.
The need: I'm transitioning from Tana to TheBrain, and one feature I rely on heavily is the ability to record a meeting and have it automatically transcribed — without needing a separate app. This keeps meeting notes tied directly to my workflow instead of living in a disconnected tool.
What I'm asking for:
- A record button within a Thought (or a dedicated "Meeting" note type) that captures audio live
- Automatic transcription of that recording, attached to the same Thought
- Ideally, the transcript text…1 vote -
Add the ability to link to a brain using a custom domain.
I am not sure how feasible this is, but it would be great to be able to use a custom domain directing to a specific brain. The current address to a thought in any brain is meaningless to the casual user. It would be an advantage if a custom domain could link to say the thought name. Not sure if this is possible, but it would be extremely useful.
3 votes -
Thought Type and Keyword Filter
It should definitely be possible to filter and display thought types and keywords. So far, you always see all of them from the entire Brain. That's very impractical.
I only want to see the thought types or keywords associated with a specific thought or area.
3 votes -
Allow Reordering Note Text Actions Above Keyboard on Mobile
Please allow the ability to customize the order of the Note text actions on mobile.
I use Indent and Outdent more than any others, and it's frustrating to open the dialog repeatedly when cleaning up notes on mobile.
2 votes
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