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Thinkery – Extend Your Brain Organizing Your Thoughts & Stuff Online

Thinkery logoThinkery is an online self-organization tool that lets you organize your thoughts, tasks and resources you find online. It helps you focus on important things as well as add things you want to read or review later. When you put your thought on Thinkery, it extracts additional information relevant to your input giving you more opportunity to extend your brain. The entire graphical interface is well designed and lightweight.

Thinkery is more than just a thoughts or tasks management tool, it lets you dump all your thoughts, things, tasks and URLs. If you add link to a YouTube video, it understand your input and displays the YouTube player and save it under the tag “video”. If you add a product link from amazon, it display the product information with picture, price and customer reviews if available. Not only YouTube or Amazon, it can also understand 100 other online services like Soundcloud, Flickr, CNN, Twitpic, Twitter etc.

Thinkery lets you include your own hash tags on your thoughts or things. These hash tags automatically categorize your thoughts into lists so that if you add a thought with #todo hash tag, you will find the thought under the “todo” tag list. You can easily edit, share, archive or even delete any though from the list if it is no longer necessary for you.

Thinkery provides several tools to ease with inputting your thought on Thinkery, you can use generic bookmarklet or install Google Chrome extension. They also have a Chrome App to help you adding your thoughts quickly. It is a web-based application which means you can use it from any browser where you have access to internet, there is no need to download or install any additional software. Mobile version of this cool application is also coming soon.

Thinkery is a great tool and if used properly it can really extend your brain. Please give it a try, who knows you might love it.

Thoughtboxes – A Better Way To Organize Your Thoughts

Thougtboxes-logoThoughtboxes is a great innovative web application that helps you to keep your thoughts organized in a more simplified way. It lets you create a train of thoughts which is the parent/main topic. It can be a very big idea of different related thoughts or tasks. Under each train you can create as many thought boxes as you want. Each thought box represent individual topics for a list of related thoughts or tasks where you can gather all your thoughts for that specific topics. This way all your thoughts of a specific train are in one screen and you can have an easy look at all of your thoughts and tasks wasting no more time.

Thoughtboxes has a very straightforward interface and editing options. It comes with a handy in-place editor, so If you feel to edit any thought, you just double click on it and edit as you want, click anywhere on the screen outside the thought to cancel editing.

Thoughtboxes allows you to share your train of thoughts with your friends by give a link to your thought so your friend can read your thoughts easily while thoughts are only editable by you. You can make it private anytime you want by clicking on the unshare link.

Thoughtboxes is very simple, tiny but streamlined to the purpose. Since, it is available online you don’t need to download and install any additional software. And it’s free membership allows creating three trains of thought which is more than enough to test the platform by yourself.