Make it so much easier to create a note on the fly
I take notes on the fly using other products and it's a stupid shame that I rarely use TB to do so. Doesn't it make sense to laser focus in on a shortened process for users and potential users to be able to view TB as the ideal note taking product/service that competes head on with the plethora of note taking apps that shall ultimately disappear? I like the idea of The Brain Box being re-imagined as the in-box for ideas and web snapshots to be used later when using TB desktop or web client.
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Lee Zaretsky commented
For me, it is ultimately about making it easier to quickly add a thought from an iPhone or Android phone into either the Brainbox or directly into the Brain. Now, the screen clip and/or direct Brainbox input mechanism from a phone is cumbersome at best.
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Reed commented
You can create a node for each day, like a journal, and add your ideas to it, then if it's really important you'll link the day's node to your "deep" brain. If they made a BrainBox for Notes we would all just end up with an overflow of notes that we don't know what to do with.
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Haberjr commented
Look at https://lazy.so, which is positioning itself as a Universal Document Clipper. No matter where I am, either on a website or in a Word document, I can select and capture something which gets stored in Lazy. In the capture window, I can tag, and even use AI.
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Haberjr commented
Take a look at https://lazy.so that is positioning itself as a Universal Document Clipper. No matter where I am, either on a website or in a word document, I can select and capture something which get stored in Lazy. IN the capture window I can tag, and even us AI.
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Magnus Scott commented
I know TB referring sometimes to GTD by David Allen and I think as the creator of the idea is on track by letting Brain Box also be a kind of Inbox for new Ideas before they are added to a specific brain.
Otherwise the "brain homepage" could be further enhanced to have a direct "search" function and if no hit, let the user create new content in chosen brain, like the web clipper UI. -
Rajeev Alexander commented
Easier functionality to send text files from the Drafts app (agile tortoise) to the BrainBox or to a "daily note" would be useful (to me).
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Lee Zaretsky commented
Fast capture is what's needed here
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Heinrich Unger commented
Hm maybe some stiky note feature, which is used outside the brain, and automatically imported to the BrainBox?
Would be great on Android Mobile Phones to take short notes, and use it later on for a brain thought. -
RobOK [rfo2050] commented
Recommend editing the title. "Closing the gap" I strongly support. Fast capture I strongly support. The two ideas aren't one single request