Browser Workflows with BrainTool
This post describes ways BrainTool can improve your browser workflows. It’s illustrated with a set of short videos and video shorts.
BrainTool is a browser extension that allows you to save, annotate, categorize and re-find web pages; as well as open, close and organize browser windows and tabs. And since an open tab is basically a task, BrainTool is also a basic task manager! This 40 second video gives the motivation and an animated overview: BrainTool Intro.
| The BrainTool 'Topic Manager' holds your topic organization and saved pages per topic. From there you can find pages and open and close their tabs. The 'Bookmarker' is a browser toolbar tool that lets you save pages under a given topic, with optional notes. This 44 second screen recording shows an overview: BT in Brief |
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BrainTool’s hierarchical topics are a great organizational tool. This 38 second video illustrates drag and drop topic organization, as well as dragging external links into the topic tree: BT Drag and Drop.
BrainTool also has powerful searching and filtering functions to help you find what you’re looking for. Another video short shows how that works: Search, Filter, Find.
Topics and tabs can be tracked as tasks in BrainTool’s basic task manager. Here’s a one minute demo of it in action, as well as a brief flash of its ability to use plain text org-mode files to integrate into a larger productivity and PKM system: BrainTool TODO Manager.
As well as those basic workflows there are any number of other ways BrainTool’s capabilities can improve your browser productivity. Here’s a few, demonstrated in short videos. No doubt there are many more.
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BrainTool’s bookmarks bar integration provides a handy way to pre-load every browser window with a set of links organized and ready to go during a meeting, class, presentation or offsite: Bookmarks Bar Workflow.
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It’s common to have a set of dashboards or project pages or some other set of websites that you need to review or update on a periodic basis. This is the ‘Checklist Workflow’. Here’s how BrainTool can help make sure you get to those tasks on time and make it more efficient to check them off: Checklist Workflow.
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Finally for this post, the ‘Shopping Workflow’ shows how you can keep your options organized when you’re shopping online: [[Coming soon]]
Are there other productivity improving techniques or workflows that BrainTool enables for you?
16 Sep 2025 - Written by Tony
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