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  1. Note: This is a general idea, I'm not suggesting the features should work exactly like how I laid out, but more what end result / function should be strived for (ie. chronologically organizing information in a more selective way)

    To provide context:
    I'm interested in mapping connections / relationships between individuals. It's very important to be able to do this, as understanding relationships between individuals is critical for analysing potential conflicts of interest, including historically.

    The individuals are the bedrock "child thoughts" of my brain.

    Their parent thoughts will be things which bundle people together such as organisations, movements, maybe…

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  2. While in the note editor on desktop and iPad, allow us to use a selective filter that can select OR filter text with certain attributes such as:

    • All text in the note that has any background color
    • or a certain background color or set of background colors
    • optionally bolded, or italicized or a certain heading level or other style attribute

    Once this has been filtered, allow us to create a thought attached to the current thought (child, parent or jump) with the filtered text as the new thought's note including the source text's style attributes intact. The filtered text can…

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  3. Color coding text and text backgrounds is important to my work. Allow me to type a keyboard sequence to set the background color or text color in the note editor such as: command-shift-B-2-3-return to set background color to the light orange background appearing at column 3 and row 2 of the color picker. This will allow me to quickly learn and use a common set of sequences for the colors I use most often. While typing the sequence, the color picker should highlight the first item of the column and then the chosen row. If I wish to change the…

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  4. It would be nice to be able to have a switch in settings to toggle on/off labels in the web browser as scrolling over the Thoughts in the browser with labels popping up can be distracting and overwhelming visually.

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  5. It would be super helpful if there were an option to hide thought types in the plex on iOS. Occasionally I accidentally tap on a thought type and it causes the app to hang for 10+ minutes if the type is used frequently.

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  6. Show videos without having to download them.

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  7. I’d like to suggest an enhancement that would significantly improve workflow efficiency and keyboard accessibility.
    When modifying an event and dismissing the properties popup, a contextual menu appears with four choices: Cancel, Only this, All the following, and All in the series. Currently, these options require mouse interaction or multi-step keyboard navigation.
    It would be incredibly helpful if each option could be activated with a single keystroke—specifically c, o, a, and s—corresponding to the first letter of each item. This lightweight mnemonic-style activation would eliminate the need to switch between mouse and keyboard, making it easier to stay in flow…

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  8. Currently, adding parentheses around the first part of a thought name will cause that part to be skipped for sorting purposes, while subsequent parentheses will be ignored. It is recommended to use subsequent parentheses as symbols for adding thought tags, which better aligns with users' habits of adding labels and facilitates users in quickly adding thoughts and labels from copied and pasted text.

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  9. TheBrain already has the feature of add a label during thought creation. It is hoped that a feature of adding note content during thought creation can be added. It is recommended to use a colon as the delimiter, which not only conforms to users' intuition but also facilitates pasting relevant content from web pages, PDFs or other texts, reducing some text processing work.

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  10. To have the option to "Sort:Event" in the report view. This would allow to report thoughts with events in chronological order.

    Context: I cannot really use the timeline view as the events created go over many hundreds of years.

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  11. Currently in the web version and mobile version, the report conditions show as text which can be adjusted.
    It would be nice in all versions (mobile, web and desktop) if you could set a placeholder for the date and perform calculations.
    For example:
    created:"06/10/2025 - 06/11/2025"
    Could become
    created:"({now} -7) - {now}"

    This would allow me to save the report and then when I pull up the saved report it will always give me the thoughts created in the last 7 days.

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  12. 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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  13. 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…

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  14. 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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  15. --> (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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  16. Allow us to customize the style for Block Quotes in text

    Block Quote Markdown

    It would be nice to be able to attribute a different text style and background to block quotes in the Notes Style

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  17. 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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  18. 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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  20. 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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