And adding to the great comments below, I have thousands of papers, documents and websites that I have collected that are yet to be brained. I used to stockpile them in Evernote but now use the brainbox which is working seamlessly these days. Currently I have all my urls that I would like to organize sitting in an intermediary brain under a single holding thought.

As an extension to David's and Dan's requests, I would like to be able to organize those url thoughts under the correct parent thought, and make sure the thought name is correctly titled.

I also have thousands of papers and documents that I would similarly like to drag into my brain, and have The Brain automatically display the correct full title with year and then select a main trunk thought that it should be a child of. I would like the choice to constrain to a few dozen thoughts that are parent candidates (or leave it open). There should also be a choice of number of jump thoughts to link. I imagine there could be 1,000+ jump thoughts that a Brain Agent (Bragent?) might locate, but I don't need that level of connectivity. Just the top 10-20 jumps is probably more than enough based on the algorithm's assessment of relevance.

Combine this with manual sorting (or add an agent function for publication date of document) and we have a winner.

I know that the inability to sort or to have The Brain automatically configure thought order based on thought content date rather than thought manipulation date was a showstopper for several folks adopting The Brain. This combined capability outlined above basically removes a possibly the biggest barrier to adoption for new customers since v1 - how to integrate existing sets of data and content into The Brain whilst retaining the original ordering and classification. I was personally lucky since I was using mind maps from when I was a kid and was able to port from DOS and then Windows mindmap programs to The Brain. The world has gotten too impatient for the depths of information curation and gardening that makes for effective Brains. Even the pace of pertinent information flow means I need help keeping my knowledge base up to date and well curated. My priority is the information retrieval in the moment I need it, not the information curation, which now definitely needs augmented support to keep up.

Along with manual sort, which may need to evolve to augmented sort with criteria, we would then have truly game-changing power at our fingertips!

(Ref: https://thebrain.uservoice.com/forums/4597-thebrain-feature-suggestions/suggestions/48558536-manual-sorting-for-thoughts)

I agree pretty much with David Hawkins input. I am not into AI very much yet but I do know that that is the direction the world is going. I am just taking a wild guess here but I am thinking that most of the people that use theBrain don't have much of a problem generating "New Thoughts" and that most of us would like an AI tool that would help us with our organization (ie: "Gardening).

However ... I wouldn't want to think for a moment that I may be more enlightened on the future than Harlan and his team, but for my selfish reasons I would like to see AI be a tool that most of us "Brainee's" (is that a term) could use to manage our "Brains" and "Thoughts" better. My train of thought here also aligns with the idea of theBrain being able to add Footnotes. In this NEW age of mis-information we need AI as a tool to help us Validate the information we have collected.

I agree with this comment in that The Brain AI is fine for content generation, but it isn't a tool to manage my brain.

As an example, I just spent a significant amount of time reorganizing my brain thoughts. The purpose was to find all my scattered thoughts that are under various hierarchies, which are a form of categorization, and put them where they logically make sense.

Example: I have a bunch of activities, Three of them are: Research, Brainstorming, and Writing.

I have thoughts under writing that are technically brainstorming, and others that are technically research.

So it would be nice to have an AI thought and content analysis that can look at an array of thoughts, categorize them by title subjects. Then on a second pass, look inside each thought at any written content (not in files, just the note level) and then find categories therein.

Then, using the AI generation, look for categories to tag each thought with based on its contents or titles. Then apply those tags to the thoughts.

Finally, have a sidebar on the left that is essentially a "tags" or "Categories" pick list.

This would essentially add a level of collaboration to the AI tool that helps you organize content and find hidden thoughts related to what you are working on.