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BrainTool - Go Beyond Bookmarks

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Love One AnotherFeb 2, 2025

I spent a lot of time setting this up. Now I cannot find any way to load the app? I can save (Can no longer save after rebooting computer) a bookmark but cannot add a category or find the main app anywhere. Does anyone know how to find it? I get this when clicking on the bookmark part: This site can’t be reached localhost refused to connect. Try: Checking the connection Checking the proxy and the firewall ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED What does this mean? What are the steps to do this? Are there s... Show more

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Tony ConfreyDeveloperFeb 3, 2025

Hello, apologies for the frustration and please be assured that your data is safe. Unfortunately there was a typo in the most recent version of BrainTool released on Feb 2. Thats what's causing this connection refused error. A fix has been submitted to Google. It should be approved into the store tomorrow and you'll be upgraded automatically. Please see the discussion group for more details (https://groups.google.com/u/0/g/braintool-discussion).

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Bob LoucksJan 23, 2025

Pay.

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Tony ConfreyDeveloperJan 29, 2025

Bob, To clarify, BrainTool is open source and usable free forever. Some customization features are limited to licensed users after 30 days to encourage those who find value in the tool to support its development (see https://braintool.org/pricing.html for details). We feel this is fair, good value, and not deserving of a one word, one star review. Please reconsider your assessment!

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Zion ChenNov 30, 2024

BrainTool Bookmarker does not support dark mode well

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Tony ConfreyDeveloperDec 2, 2024

Hi Zion. The most recent (1.2.1) release includes some improvements to Dark Mode which hopefully address your concern. If you have feedback on it or any other thoughts on improving the experience we'd love to hear from you in the discussion group: https://groups.google.com/u/0/g/braintool-discussion

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Mohammad JalalOct 22, 2024

Braintool team, Thank you so much! After trying many bookmark managers, I finally found the perfect one. I have just one request: it would be amazing if you could integrate this fantastic tool with a new tab page, where we have the ability to see and manage bookmarks on new tab. I truly appreciate your time and effort.

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Tony ConfreyDeveloperNov 11, 2024

Thanks for the feedback Mohammad. Its nice to hear BrainTool is "the perfect one"! Lets discuss your enhancement request on the BrainTool discussion group: https://groups.google.com/u/0/g/braintool-discussion Lots of our best features have been shaped by user input.

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Marek Z SzymanskiOct 20, 2024

Among the many bookmark managers, BrainTool stands out not only for its very good ratings. Above all, it has a convenient import and export function. And it supports the org mode even more. This allowed me to quite efficiently import my entire bookmark collection from Toby, which has become a paid add-on. In Toby, I exported the entire collection (you have to click on your account icon and there you will find the export of the entire collection) to a text file. At the same time, I exported th... Show more

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Tony ConfreyDeveloperNov 11, 2024

This is great to hear Marek, thanks for laying it out for refugees from Toby and other bookmark tools. It validates BrainTools philosophy that you own your data and it's kept in a plain text readable format. See the full BrainTool Bill of Rights here: https://braintool.org/2024/08/15/BrainTool-PKM-Bill_of_Rights.html

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Silas NahanOct 18, 2024

Farewell, regular old bookmarks. There are so many extensions and apps out there to organize bookmarks but they always have disappointed me in one main factor: I never feel "in control" of my bookmarks a lot. When I say "control", I mean the kind of control you have over a Notepad file, with everything feeling nice and organized. However with BrainTool, I feel totally in control and actually see myself using this very regularly. It's nice to have a large storage of bookmarks like this, becaus... Show more

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Tony ConfreyDeveloperNov 11, 2024

Thanks Silas, we're excited to see how BrainTool will evolve also! BrainTool is all about giving you full control over your data - hows it's organized and where it's stored. To the point where you *can* really just open it up and look at it in NotePad!

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Nathan ROct 5, 2024

I am a huge tab hoarder and have been hopping from extension to extension to find the perfect tab manager for my workflow. I have to say, while the extension took some time to get used to, it has been the tool I've been waiting for, allowing me to categorize tabs quickly (by tracing back where they came from). With BrainTool, I am no longer losing important sites to the abyss, using suboptimal methods (such as scrolling through history) to access them. I can put everything in a centralized pl... Show more

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LM googleSep 17, 2024

As it seems many on here, I am also coming over from Tabs Outliner, which I have liked, but has bugs and a couple of used-daily free things taken away with the recent, summer (Aug?) 2024 update. So.... on to try new things. As someone said below, this is a little different philosophy than Tabs Outliner (where all opened tabs are automatically populated) and more like Toby (you have to select/choose to add the tabs) and so I am still getting used to it. I do like it so far and find it eminen... Show more

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Jared RJul 11, 2024

Since TabOutliner is no longer maintained, I was looking for help/ideas in TabOutliner's reviews and someone mentioned to try BrainTool. Glad that they did. This is a very promising application so hopefully it doesn't get abandoned like TabOutliner.

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Eijiro SumiiJul 9, 2024

The developer stealth-marketed BrainTool in the support group for Tabs Outliner, but the former does not have the functionality of the latter.

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Tony ConfreyDeveloperJul 9, 2024

Hi Eijiro, Sorry you feel this way - I've been trying to be anything but stealthy! As a prior paying user of Tabs Outliner I was subscribed to that support group, observed it to be abandoned and posted a public service announcement that the MV3 deadline is near. BrainTool is one of several alternatives to Tabs Outliner that have been suggested to the group. I've tried to be very clear that BrainTool is quite different, while filling a similar need. Certainly some Tabs Outliner users have found it to be a good alternative (see Strati's recent review as an example). See this recent blog post (https://braintool.org/2024/07/01/The-best-Tabs-Outliner-alternative.html) for more background and please contribute to the Google Groups conversation on what you'd like to see in BrainTool to better meet your needs.

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