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  1. I have lots of acronyms, some which are similar.
    AC
    ACS

    I'm seeing unlinked mentions for things which don't match or TB is matching the first 2 characters and getting confused.

    I also have an issue with the current version (.612.0) where AC exists as a thought and I can hover over it to get a backlink, but get no choices when I click Link Actions for the menu. My click seems to get ignored, even though the menu is presented.

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  2. 1.

    Optional “Thought Date” field

    • Set via a date/time picker on the thought.
    • Supports just a date or full datetime.

    2.

    Sorting children by Thought Date

    • Parent thoughts can choose to sort children by:

    ** Thought Date (ascending/descending)
    ** Or by name (current behavior).

    • This would let me maintain a clean chronological hierarchy without having to put the date at the start of the thought name.

    3.

    Display options

    • Choose whether to:

    ** Show the date in the name (prefix/suffix/hidden), or
    ** Show it as a separate metadata field in the UI.

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  3. Since the launch of TheBrain 15, I’ve started using TheBrain differently, and I absolutely love the change.

    Historically, I maintained one large Brain rather than creating separate Brains for individual clients. The single-Brain approach was valuable for searching across everything, but its size sometimes made information difficult to find and navigate.

    With TheBrain 15, I now maintain a separate Brain for each client. When I’m working with a client, I can open that Brain and immediately have all the relevant information in front of me. It is a much cleaner and more effective way to work.

    My one significant challenge…

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  4. Allow TheBrain Local API to read, write and create Events.

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  5. 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.

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  6. Use another port than 8000 for Thebrain, as this port is already widely used by PHP, Python, Django for localhost servers.

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  7. 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.

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  8. 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.

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  9. There should be the possibility to stop a long running (ill defined) AI process, without shutting down the brain.

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  10. 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!

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  11. In version 14, "Create Event" in the "reminder" section, you had a choice of hours, days, or weeks. In version 15, you can only do hours (24). The problem is that for projects, reminders are usually more than hours.

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  12. We use Microsoft's SharePoint for our business file platform. Very frequently, I'd like to drag a file - or hyperlink - directly into a Thought Note (or as a related Thought).

    See attached video...despite looking hopeful (TB 15.0.586 and previous versions) by recognizing a drag/drop is in progress, nothing gets processed in TB.

    Currently, I either copy the hyperlink and manually paste the hyperlink or download the file to C: and then move it into TB (I usually want the file not the hyperlink, but sometimes I compromise with the hyperlink because it's faster). My expectation is either the file…

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  13. Being a non-Google company, it would be really useful to have a CalDav function for syncing events to the timeline.

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  14. I am new to this group/ app so hopefully I am submitting this correctly. So far I am loving the ability for this app to customize so many things. To that end....

    When we are viewing an Unlinked Mention in the Content/ Note area the Unlinked Mention shows up with a dotted underline. I would like to be able to make this pop up more so that it will grab my attention a little more. Would love to have a setting that would let us change the colour on the Inline Unlinked Mentions dotted underline. Similar to how we can…

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  15. Make the dropdown sizeable (default takes up too much visual space for me...), and what happened to the "drag & Drop" capabilitiy?

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  16. 3 votes
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  17. Is there a way of undoing or turning off a callout feature applied in a Brain?

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  18. It would be very cool to be able to switch between:
    Cerebro TheBrain LLM utility
    API via (multiple) user LLM accounts
    Local API for offline LLM use

    The switching should be:
    Online Cerebro running out of periodic token quota
    Cerebro triggered by saved script or real time instruction
    Cerebro triggered by conditional triggers or automatic on user defined triggers
    Button toggled by sidebar / topbar button, sequence entries user defined

    Reference:
    https://forums.thebrain.com/post/cerebro-request-dynamic-api-and-local-endpoint-switching-13805381
    https://forums.thebrain.com/post/cerebro-and-llm-switching-modality-13861392

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  19. 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.

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  20. Currently we have the ability to preview the notes by mousing over the note icon on thoughts.
    This request is to add the ability to pin or make permanent on drag.
    Example usage, I want to compare two or three notes:
    I mouseover the note I want first, drag and the note preview becomes a window that has to be closed (normal window buttons appear on the top right). I do this to other notes and compare them.

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