BrainBox: Instant Information Capture

• BrainBox lets you send information to your Brain quickly and easily. Just click the icon in the top-right corner of TheBrain for Windows or macOS for instant access.
• Add information from any web browser with a single click.
• Windows: Add files directly from File Explorer.
• macOS: Drag and drop to TheBrain in the dock.
• Learn more.

Visible Types and Tags

• To display all the thoughts under a specific type or tag, just link the type or tag thought as a child or jump
• Linkable types and tags eliminate the need to create two thoughts when you want to show all instances of a type or tag within the plex
• You can even change a normal thought into a type or tag and vice versa at any time

Instant Access Tags

• Tag icons that show on thoughts are now clickable
• Tag icon context menu including command to replace a tag with another in a single step
• Can be organized under each other so they are easier to apply
• Can have background colors associated with them
• Can be applied to types

More Types and Tags Improvements

• Can be created via the toolbar
• Can be selected via the Select Related Thoughts function
• Are represented with a thin outline and different background shapes both in the plex and other parts of the UI such as search results
• Types have rounded sides
• Tags have chamfered top-left and bottom-right corners

Presentation Mode

• Presentation mode makes your Brain full-screen, hiding the title bar, menu bar, toolbar and Brain tabs
• On Windows and macOS the taskbar and dock are also hidden
• Keyboard shortcuts can be used to switch amongst open Brain tabs without exiting presentation mode
• Just start typing to search and the controls appear and disappear as needed

Notes Improvements

• Preference added controlling the effect of the Enter key to either create a single line break or a paragraph break
• Insert thought link button enables searching for a thought and no longer requires that the selected text match a thought name exactly

Dark Mode

• All new user interface theme changes the windows, menus, icons and other user interface elements to be predominantly dark grey

More Powerful Search

• External attachments are included in search results
• Search using automatic acronyms (ex. find "New York Stock Exchange" by typing "nyse")
• Search for thoughts starting with punctuation

Improved Properties Dialog

• All inherited properties (icon, label and colors) are displayed in the properties dialog
• When a thought is a type or tag, this is indicated clearly in the dialog
• Better layout

Improved Thought Creation Dialog

• Existing thought matches are displayed even when using the semicolon to create multiple thoughts
• Link to multiple existing thoughts by typing a semicolon after selecting a thought, just like linking multiple new thoughts
• Create thoughts and link to existing thoughts at the same time
• Assign tags to existing thoughts as part of the link process

User Interface Improvements

• All-new space-saving layout on Windows
• Link labels are more subtle and are hidden when not connected to the active thought
• When attachments are displayed as a list, the space used is dynamically adjusted based on the number of attachments
• Keyboard arrow and enter keys can be used to select an attachment to open
• The reports area can be resized
• Customizable thought context menu lets you eliminate unused commands
• Context menus added to search results, reports, and type/tag navigation lists
• Brain theme dialog colors are better organized and easier to change
• New top level Window menu and tab context menus
• Duplicate tab command

User Interface Rendering

• Display of thought's outlines is crisper
• Dark favicons are shown on a white background
• Better distant thoughts layout for increased readability
• Thoughts throughout the user interface in locations like search results and reports are rendered to more closely resemble the style in the plex, with accurate background colors and sizes
• Tags and types are displayed with their correct colors, icons, and background shapes in menus
• The pins and past thought list are displayed using a smaller size font to conserve space and enable showing longer thought names

Timeline and Events

• Event changes are shown in thought/link history
• Weekends are highlighted in the timeline

Increased responsiveness

• Performance optimization continues in version 10, including optimizations to animation/rendering and backend functions

Find and Replace of Names, Labels & Locations

• Find and replace all occurrences of text within thought names and labels, link labels, external attachment paths and URLs
• Includes support for regular expressions
• Preview of results lets you see what will be done before execution
• Changes are undoable

Powerful Export

• All-new export feature
• Export directly to JSON, text outline, or folders
• Folder export includes support for all attachments, notes and multiple parents
• Export your entire brain or just the selected thoughts

Copy and Paste Improvements

• Detection of duplicate Thought names when pasting a text outline
• Capture image to clipboard command
• Existing objects detected dialog is resizable

Plus More

• There are many more small improvements in TheBrain 10. Download now and see for yourself.