Browser-based Productivity and PKM with Emacs, org-mode, LogSeq and BrainTool

I installed BT on Brave; while it took a while to figure it out, I'm pleased with the platform and the concepts it embodies.

As a topic mapper, I was immediately attracted to it, though, in reality, it's not a full-Monty topic map the way I build them. What, then, is it and why do I use it - and, for that matter, design improvements on it?

As the web page says, it gives me control of my browser, and it uses that control and its web annotation tools to allow me to fully, and more deeply curate my topics than ever before. I contrast that to a long history of using https://hypothes.is/ and WorldBrain's Memex. There are important differences. Still, controlling the tabs on my browser is, for me, a huge bonus.

org-mode is NOT a hot point for me; more a kind of convenience; I can run org-mode in vscode if I want to do that, but I don't come from an emacs background, so that's not a sales point; the primary sales point is that it is helping me improve on my abilities in deep biomedical research.

BT is presently for personal work; I'll be interested to see where it can go in the space of online collaboration.

There is no shortage of markdown-based tools on all platforms. Our org markup options, on the other hand, are very few outside of Emacs. Org markup itself is super versatile and can power lots of use-cases.

It's great to see tools like https://braintool.org built on top of org and thus help spread org markup awareness.

I built two org-powered apps for iOS myself:

https://plainorg.com

https://flathabits.com

There are other great ones out there:

https://beorg.app

https://logseq.com

https://organice.200ok.ch

https://orgro.org

http://orgzly.com

Lastly, a shoutout to Karl Voit who's been driving org markup awareness outside of Emacs with Orgdown https://gitlab.com/publicvoit/orgdown. He's also discussed org markup's strengths at https://karl-voit.at/2017/09/23/orgmode-as-markup-only

I put together a blog post and video showing how notes, bookmarks and todo's can be captured in the browser and streamed in org-mode format to emacs and LogSeq.

Braintool is quickly becoming my favorite tool. My life is organized around a set of ongoing projects, each with 5-30 webpages associated with them. When switching tasks, I can now safely close out of all of my tabs knowing how easy it is to restore my working context.