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  1. Just as all other changes to Brain are synchronized. Why not save files for extended views? It is very annoying, and simple feature to add!

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  2. I would like to be able to create a url to any expanded view. Also would like an expanded views list in a window that lets me duplicate a view on the list.

    And could you fix the speed of the brain, and get rid of the splash screen when I call a brain:// link externally.

    Copy thought guid on context menu.

    Allow dragging thought onto desktop and giving me option to deposit thoughts attachments, along with option to deposit thought brain:// link

    Hotkeys/menus for add/remove to/from selection, parents|children|jumps.

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  3. Change my cursor into a knife so I can cut many links at once. Allow me to copy a thought type, or tags, or link type to a single palette, then allow me to dip my cursor in that palette and then click on many thoughts or links to paint them with that type or tags. Also, when I accidentally drag to an empty spot on the screen and get the new thought dialog, let me click anywhere on the screen to dismiss it. Also give me rubber band selection of thoughts, especially in expanded view where I need to…

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  4. XML import needs deletion capabilities, perhaps providing the guid alone should cause a delete, or maybe put a safety node <delete/>, so that and the thought guid would cascade delete for <entry> and <attachment>. Secondly, make it so if I don't want to write an empty <entry> when I am importing a new <thought> and <attachment>, it will be created automatically. Third, if I am just changing <thought> data during an import, and I only offer that <thought> node, it currently whacks the existing <entry> and <attachment>. All of this stuff should be independently writable.

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  5. Allow the Brain owner in a TeamBrain to define and assign different "Roles" to other brain users in the team. Each role could be defined as a set of permissions that TeamBrain admins can set.

    Also add a third property to each though that specify its visibility scope according to the roles.

    This could help the brain admin of concealing sensitive information from other users in the brain... and that is a key issue in hierarchical organization...

    The concept is very simple actually, and i know it is not difficult to program...

    I think by adding this feature... TheBrain and…

    144 votes
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  6. enable drag and drop from outlook to the calendar to facilitate quick reminders for time sensitive tasks or data

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  7. I would like to be able to add a (linked) thought from another brain to my exisiting so it would show all the attributes (maybe even read-only) of that thought in the other brain.
    Currently it is only possible to add a thought url, but therefore you have to create a new thought and only see the linked thought in the files list as link. You cannot see e.g. the notes of this foreign thought.

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  8. Useful for Students to capture from Laptop Webcam

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  9. I'm using Evernote as well on my Android device and it would be good to integrate better

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  10. Provide a function allowing a user to change the color one thought anywhere in in a brain and have its children and jump thoughts automatically change to the same color. The user should have the ability to limit the number of child and jump thoughts and thus eliminate a loop.

    The color "synapse" would provide the user a means to isolate a train of thought from a large brain while still viewing the larger brain.

    This would assist with process mapping where the interconnections of processes get messy when using traditional tree structures.

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  11. The full Bible text pops up (as hover text)
    The default translation would be KJV, as there are no Copyright issues etc
    Example
    Pointing your mouse at John 3:16 would show the following
    (after a delay of 1 second)

    John 3:16 (KJV)
    16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

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  12. Be able to create and maintain more than one (internal) Note per thought.

    Each (Internal)Note could appear as one item in the Thought tool attachment list.

    One note in the list could be designated the "Default Note".

    When you click on another thought in the list, it would be displayed in the internal Thought Note Tool.

    The Advantage to this, would be that the notes are displayed an maintained fully within the Brain itself, and Importantly, you could quickly switch between two or more notes, so that you could for instance, maintain note versions, Or be able to compare for…

    3 votes
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  13. 1 vote
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  14. The default size could be enlarged if users chooses to do so
    Also a hover over resize would be a good option also

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  15. If I create a new thought with the Title

    "Brain Suggestions List"
    it could be auto assigned as a child to a Parent thought named
    "List of Lists - Global"

    (because the parent thought had a user created script or rule that searches for any new thought titles including the string "List" in their title.

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  16. Automated Date or Date Time Stamp appears after typing in new text into a notes screen, (activated when screen closed)
    Settings could include
    (Option - On / Off)
    (1 entry per calendar day limit - On / Off)
    (stamp above / below)

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  17. I've seen references to API requests. I would like to see a REST based API to be able to create brains from other programs. I have an application that I am working on and was considering leveraging the Brain, however the barrier is to manually create it and then to maintain it. Doing so from within another application would have been a great advantage for my client.

    In addition to that, I would need the Brain to be accessible from an iPad.

    Any timelines for when a useful API will be released? If ever?

    4 votes
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  18. Just like what you can presently do with SHIFT key to change child thought from 1 parent to another, but instead of unlinking ALL existing parents, would unlike JUST the one your moving 'from'. This way you can move thoughts easily from one parent to another without losing the other parent connections.

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  19. I realize this has been posted before but was done without a good rationale.

    Humans are first pattern/image/symbol recognizers. Text is only a 2ndary learned skill. Every car, cola and other product companies know this! Civil engineers for street signs know this. That's why they push there ICONS first! (ask TheBrain's VP Ms. Shelley Hayduk, she has a psychology degree).

    If a Brain has the choice of purely a symbol of image, with option text, the processing through a Brain's web would be infinitely more intuitive, a grab concepts easier. And image if some of the symbols were 3d?! that…

    6 votes
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  20. For example, I have a thought called "inflammation" it has eight child thoughts with links of type: four "subtypes" and four "components". Because of the spelling of the thoughts, all of them are mixed up and disorganized. This happens very frequently.

    For better thought organization and readability, I would like for thoughts to be alphabetized first by their link type; second by the text of the link type (i.e. "exudate" [Action link type - Causes] -> acute inflammation), so that "Causes" does not cause the associated child thought to be mis-grouped with other thought types and better organizes among other…

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