[tconfrey]

I've 'shown' this a few times before but with minimal response, so I'm still looking for good feedback from the HN community. And since I seem to be asymptotically approaching the monetized 1.0 version I thought I'd try again.

BrainTool is a private- and local-first Chromium (no FF RN) extension that makes it easy to save tabs into a nested 'topic' hierarchy along with a note, and then use those topics to control the browser, opening and closing tabs as a group.

Plain text file (org mode) data storage, full keyboard support with search, TODO's and more. I just added local file syncing and some UX upgrades.

Thoughts?

Chrome Web store link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/braintool-beyond-b...

[slickdork]

I suspect it being Chrome only is one of the reasons you receive minimal responses here. At least, for me -- I only have FF installed, so I can't test for you. I imagine a lot of the HN user base is similar, due to FF's target demographic.

[tconfrey]

Interesting theory! I have seen previous replies on here saying non-FF is a deal killer. But any numbers I see show FF < 5% marketshare on desktop browsers, so I can't imagine there's more than maybe a quarter of HN readers on FF-only.

Thus far my time is better spent elsewhere but the code is open source and a couple of people have expressed interest in trying a port. (https://github.com/tconfrey/BrainTool)