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  1. When I export .PDF or .HTML the little todo square list items - do not show up for print - missing both in .PDF and .HTML-

    but I wondered why not CTRL (CMD) + P just the selected text directly from the content - the only work arround seems to screen capture and then print - but my "system 1" wants to save seconds in a busy moment before a meeting

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  2. I already made a comment on another post but I thought it would maybe be also worth as a own post.

    It seems to me that TheBrain project seems to focus on utility and beeing an organize your tasks and thoughts project, because it can not really compete with normal AI as a knowledgebase and it shouldn't. But I think there could be an awesome way for the future to share your thoughts with others:

    I was interested in making my own AI and it is quite a hard task if you have some unconventional view on something, but in…

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  3. I have been testing out Cerebro on 15.0.86, and I do believe it is truly a game-changer. The regular brain AI is much less sophisticated and I have found it of limited use. Cerebro, on the other hand, will become a core part of my organizational routine especially as it gets better at searching (finding all relevant thoughts rather than a limited number, etc.).

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  4. TheBrain isn't my primary todo location but I find it extremely useful, and lets face it, easy, to add them directly into the thoughts they apply to. But then they are a bit lost for me when managing my day. I want to be able to access them via MCP or API's directly so I can have them as part of my overall task management system. That way Cerebro could also work with them as right now it can't help me even from inside the brain!

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  5. THE OPPORTUNITY

    TheBrain excels at what no other tool does: non-linear, associative thinking. The ability to model complex knowledge relationships — thoughts, links, webs of context — is genuinely irreplaceable. But when it comes to rich, freeform note-taking, especially on iPad, OneNote fills a gap TheBrain's current notes panel simply can't match. Handwritten annotation, stylus input, highlighting, visual page layouts — these make OneNote an irreplaceable capture tool for many of us.
    The ask isn't for TheBrain to rebuild those capabilities from scratch. It's for a tighter coupling — so users can bring the best of both worlds into one…

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  6. It would be great if Selected thoughts will include Tags and Type to the "copy text Outline with notes" command.

    This will helps me e.g. to get a quick excel sheet via Claude Code, with all selected Thoughts in a nice overview, wich I can use for a meeting as an overview.

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  7. I use labels quite a bit for quick level 2 information about a thought without actually opening the thought. In version 14 I could hover over a thought and the font size was large enough to get what I needed and move on. In version 15 the font size is much reduced. I would like to being the font size of hovering over a label back to version 14 size.

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  8. Hi,
    A thought about links that occurred to me:
    Wouldn't it be good if we would have the possibility to alter/change the start- and end-thought of a certain link (without losing its properties)?

    Imagine, after having set the colour and the thickness and the type of a link between two thoughts and maybe even added a note content and you realize that one of the end thoughts should be different... the only solution is to unlink and start all over again losing all property and note information of the existing link in the process.

    If the properties-window of the link…

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  9. At the moment it is not clear to me how the thoughts in the result for reports are ordered.
    I would like to be able to sort them alphabetically, or according to date created/modified/accessed.

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  10. At the moment I am not sure how the search results that the search/create field returns are sorted. To me the search order does not make much sense and the thought that I search is somewhere in the middle hidden between thoughts that are not relevant.
    It would be nice to be able to choose the sort order according to date accessed or alphabetically. Additional options could be relevant for other users.

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  11. When creating a new thought, or pasting an older thought after copying, it would be massively liberating for workflow to be able to set a toggle to manually define thought date.

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  12. 3 votes
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  13. I suggest to have a Seed Box for all data that are important to catalog but does not have a proper place just yet.

    My Use Case: my marketing work requires me to collect a lot of information (pdf, sheets, docs, slides, video) that might not have clear connection or use just yet... like a list of important online tools, or recent events etc.

    Currently I am using aitable which has intake form that I can fill up and then send it to my main aitable Seed Box database.

    The Benefit of this approach is:
    - I can collect a…

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  14. 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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  15. 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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  16. 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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  17. 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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  18. 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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  19. 我们需要一个全局的视图,就像Obsidian的关系图谱一样,这样可以很直观的感受到我的TheBrain中有多少个想法,给人一种直观地感受。当然,我觉得Obsidian中的图谱,最大的作用就是感知笔记的数量。而在TheBrain中,目前的视图的确很好,但都只是局限于局部关系的图示。
    We need a global view, something like the relationship charts provided by Obsidian. This would allow us to easily understand how many Thoughts exist in TheBrain, giving us a clear and intuitive sense of the overall situation. Of course, I believe that the most important function of the charts in Obsidian is to help us keep track of the number of notes involved. In TheBrain, the current view is indeed useful, but it still only shows a limited representation of relationships between individual items.

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  20. In the content panel selecting an obvious date like "Jul 24, 2024" or "7/24/2024", that either through the context menu or hotkey, it opens up the Timeline Event creation dialog entry on THAT date.

    I have content with many, many dates and it would be wonderful to optimize this adding process.

    There is SO much you could do with the Timeline feature, but I will keep my request manageable :)

    I understand the complexities of detecting dates from a String, so even if there are strict rules about when it would detect or the string pattern format required for detection…

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