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Posted by BrainTool
Apr 26, 2021 at 10:06 PM
Nomatica wrote:
>
>BrainTool wrote:
>Franz Grieser wrote:
>>Another vote for a Firefox add-in.
>>
>>BrainTool developer here - My plan is to make BrainTool available on
>>Edge and Firefox,........... >BTW I posted a writeup of my personal
>org-mode and BrainTool process:
>>https://braintool.org/2021/04/21/My-BrainTool-orgmode-and-emacs-workflow.html
>>
>
>Excited to hear firefox is on the roadmap. I am going to try and play
>with it on chrome in the next week or so. I will echo others who have
>said that it is pretty mature given how long it has been in development.
>
>
>I appreciated your write up on your process. Bookmarks and browser
>history often live in a silo, The braintools org file looks like a way
>to free the information from the silo. It also offers a good workflow to
>capture and take notes on those links.
>
>I am curious what the limitations might be on notes you can add for each
>link? Is limited to short notes, or can you add/copy significant text
>from the page?
>
>Thanks
There’s no limit to the amount of text entered although the display is currently less than ideal for anything over a few hundred charcters. The underlying org-mode structure is just text so you can write forever!
Posted by BrainTool
Apr 26, 2021 at 10:18 PM
Hi Alexander,
I’m trying to answer all the BrainTool questions but being challenged by the threading format of the discussion group!
At the very least you can manually export-to and then import-from a local text file. So you can manually keep two browsers synced. I haven’t really designed for multiple concurrent use at this point, but given the ability to sync to a Google Drive file I think it could work if you are careful. With both browsers reading and writing the GDrive you’d just need to make sure to hit the ‘Refresh from Google Drive’ button each time you start work in a new browser. (Also the GDrive file is automatically versioned so there’s always a safety net to restore a previous version of the file.)
BTW since its kind of hidden here’s a pointer to the Overview writeup on the web site describing some more of the philosophy and roadmap: http://braintool.org/overview
and there’s a BT specific Google discussion group here: https://groups.google.com/u/0/g/braintool-discussion
Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
Thank you for the positive perspective! Thanks also for the writeup of
>your process, which also sheds light on the BrainTool logic.
>
>So here’s a potential challenge. Like Nomatica, I also use more than one
>browser. Would it be possible to for more than one browser to use the
>same BrainTool org file? (Ideally, but not necessarily, concurrently.)
>
>
>BrainTool wrote:
>>BrainTool developer here - My plan is to make BrainTool available on
>>Edge and Firefox, but probably not for a couple of months until I
>finish
>>up the 1.0 version (search being the major outstanding feature).
>Firefox
>>definitely seems to be the most requested!
>>
>>BTW I posted a writeup of my personal org-mode and BrainTool process:
>>https://braintool.org/2021/04/21/My-BrainTool-orgmode-and-emacs-workflow.html
>
Posted by BrainTool
Aug 10, 2021 at 04:44 PM
Following up on this thread to note that the latest version of BrainTool is out [1] and that it is now available on the Edge store [2] and also has support for Brave and Vivaldi. Unfortunately FireFox does not support tab groups and errors out on my calls to that API (unlike Vivaldi which safely ignores them), so no support for FF just yet :-(
BTW this is my last planned version before a pending 1.0 release. I have a couple of subscription offers for early adopters that might be of interest [3].
Tony
[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/braintool-beyond-bookmark/fialfmcgpibjgdoeodaondepigiiddio
[2] https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/braintool-beyond-bookma/igibjpnabjgljgnfajjpapocagidmeol
[3] https://braintool.org/pricing