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Products that do what BrainTool – Beyond Bookmarks, a Topic Manager for your online life does

Long time looker, first time Show-er here! I built the initial BrainTool to scratch a personal itch - to unify my bookmarks and online resources with text-based notes. I've spent the last several months iterating on it with feedback from early adopters and UX volunteers. It's finally at the point where I feel confident enough to seek this communities feedback. BrainTool is a browser extension that makes it easy to save pages of interest into a personal 'topic' hierarchy, along with associated notes. Your topics are shown in an editable side panel which can also control the browser - opening…

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    Candy277

    Bookmarks for the 21st century.

    2016

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    Create awesome notes on YouTube videos

    2018

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    Hello Tab128

    Replaces your new tab page with random thoughts from others

    2015

  4. 4IM

    I recently decided to try out Google Tasks as my only task management system, and while I find some things about the interface great, it really isn't suited for someone like me who has multiple lists with lots of elements on each. So, I whipped this together real fast and I can't imagine using Google Tasks without it anymore. I realized you might want it too, so I put it on the web. Enjoy :)

    2011 · gtasker.com

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    An awesome solution for those with too many Chrome tabs open

    2014

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    Philosophical thoughts with every new tab! 🚿

    2017

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    Memex 2152

    Bookmarking for power users. History search & annotations

    2020

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    Papermark103

    A better way to track what you’re reading

    2015

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    Dewey85

    Better bookmarks for Google Chrome

    2014

  10. 10PO
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    Bookmark manager that makes you smart(er)

    2020

  12. 12MA

    After 18 months of tinkering and iterating, we want to show you our Memex: An open-source browser extension to effortlessly organise your web-research. We'd love to know what you think :) Check it out at https://worldbrain.io/hn Memex features: - Instantly find websites you visited with the fuzzy memories you have about them, instead of bookmarking everything or keeping dozens of open tabs. Search for every word of every website you’ve seen, and filter by time, domain, custom tags or bookmarks. - Add your thoughts to websites via comments & annotations, directly in the browser…

    2018

  13. 13SR

    Hey all, this is a small bookmarklet my partner made last week to save short summaries of long-winded web posts. Hopefully you can help others save time by sharing your TL;DRs with the world. You can also up/downvote the TL;DRs other users post. It should work with your iPad, too. http://tldrplz.com

    2011

  14. 14IB

    Bookmarks which you wanted to read, but simply forgot... It happened to me all the time. I bookmarked the articles to read later and simply forgot about them. Forever. I built Mailist to help with that. Already 2350 users enjoy their "weekly digests" composed from their bookmarks. It makes me super happy! So now, https://mailist.app Pro account allows you to send an email newsletter every day, built from your bookmarks. Does it sound interesting? The free version (weekly email) is available for everyone! Let me know what you think. PS. Unlike other tools, we care about your privacy…

    2020

  15. 15VN

    I got the idea of [mindmap.so](http://mindmap.so/) out of my own frustration of managing my personal notes in Notion and Miro in parallel. I have built it 3 months back on top of excalidraw, posted it in Reddit a couple of times, and never looked back (was using it only for personal use). Little did I know that the small and nimble tool that I created has crossed 2000+ users (was so surprised when I saw the dashboard last week). It was all organic and word of mouth . Having 2000+ users trusting a product is no easy feat. That’s when I thought may be I should put some more…

    2024 · mindmap.so

  16. 16AO

    The other day I scratched my own itch and create an online bookmark manager for the podcasts I was listening to. It allows the user to mark points of interest and add notes to them to return to later. Feedback on the website would be amazing. It's only MVP, but I have a lot of features I am getting ready to add. Podcastmarks --> https://bit.ly/2QmRvjf

    2020

  17. 17AN

    Hey HN community, there are a couple of websites I visit on a daily basis. I type the first two oder three characters of the url and the autocomplete feature of my browser does the rest. That is also how I procrastinate. It happens that i visit the same website over and over again without that there is really new content on that site. Or on the other side it happens that I forget to visit a certain site for some days. To address all this I build the following website: https://everyday-favs.com The idea is: you have one personal link (1) and define a list of websites and how often…

    2021

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    Save links. Actually find them later.

    May 2026 · smartbookmarkpdfmanager.vercel.app

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    I’ve always liked fast online tools for jotting notes or organizing thoughts — but most “productivity” sites either save data to the cloud, require sign-ups, or are full of distractions. So I built an online productivity tools website, a small collection of browser-based tools. It includes an online notepad where you can write and save notes right in your browser, a cornell notes tool available in more than 20 languages, and more coming soon like a pomodoro timer and a simple blank page for focused writing. Everything works entirely in-browser using localStorage — no accounts, no cloud sync,…

    Oct 2025 · onlinenotep.ad

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    A Markdown notepad that turns every note into a visual map.

    May 2026

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    Save bookmarks fast, find them instantly with smart search

    May 2026 · chromewebstore.google.com

  23. 23MF

    Here is the link: http://www.wikihowtodo.com I know a lot of geeks share the same dream -- build the next kick-ass todo-list/project management system. So do I. However, as I was quite positive that my web development skill is worse than 99% of developers' in this community, I decided to build something simple, useless but unique. So I built this. Basically it's a Wikihow scraper, nothing more. It gives you a place to store interesting Wikihow articles and yes, they are converted into todo lists. I know this site is not that good, but I still need your guys' feedback. For example, as I am a…

    2010

  24. 24IM

    It's dead simple. There's no fancy interface. Basic features are gone. That's all on purpose. If you're like me, you're always writing down ideas on pieces of paper. My webapp is like that, but for the internet. Let me know if you find it useful.

    2012 · ideab.in

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