When comparing BrainTool vs Tabs Outliner, the Slant community recommends Tabs Outliner for most people. In the question“What are the best tab managers for Chrome?” Tabs Outliner is ranked 8th while BrainTool is ranked 24th. The most important reason people chose Tabs Outliner is:
Even though the experience is not streamlined, it's still worth checking out.
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Pros
Pro Editable notes
Every link can have its own editable and changeable notes.
Pro Privacy
No data is stored anywhere other than in your browser and a linked text file.
Pro Personalized nested Topic tree
You can set up your own hierarchal topic tree thats readily editable with keyboard and drag and drop.
Pro Writes to a text file
All your data is always accessible and editable with other tools.
Pro Browser control
Open and close set of tabs by topic into their own tab groups or windows.
Pro Full keyboard control
All actions can be performed via key commands for fast access.
Pro Tabs Outliner is great at organization of tabs
Even though the experience is not streamlined, it's still worth checking out.
Pro Add notes and labels to any groups, windows and labels
Lots of organization functionality and freedom. You can use emojis as group icons too. You can also duplicate anything.
Pro Reliable, trustworthy and safe
Has barely any problems (on Windows and Linux), help from the developer easy to get.
Pro Powerful - interface and learning curve can seem like a lot but they're not and serve you well
Cons
Con Complicated
Clumsy and complicated interface.
Con Can't search old trees (files) without opening them individually
Con Unstable and greedy
As tree becomes complex, sometimes all data is missing together with a backup file, if any. Shortcut keys available in paid version only.
Con Need to start a new 'tree' (file) when it becomes too big for performance
Thankfully it's gonna take a long time before you need to start over (many months even for those using a very old laptop and browsing throughout the day) and you can bring content from your old trees into new ones (old trees can be stores locally or in Google Drive btw).