Second Brain

An Electron based productivity application made for easily clearing your mind, while not letting go of your current task.

Store thoughts, ideas and sidetracks in a hidden to-do list as they appear, without interrupting what you're currently engaged in. Your second brain is just one keyboard shortcut away.

Shortcuts and interface

Ctrl/Cmd+alt+I : Insert new thought

The field pops up in the foreground and is automatically focused, press enter to save the thought.

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Ctrl/Cmd+alt+B : Open the list of stored-away thoughts

Use the left circle to tick a task, or delete entries with the delete button. Closing this window will exit the application, while minimizing it will hide it invisible from the taskbar/dock.

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Custom keyboard Shortcuts

Change the active shortcuts that the application listens to by specifying your preferred keyboard combinations in the globalShortcut.register() calls, in the bottom of app.js.

How to run

NodeJS

• Clone the repo
• run npm install && npm start from the base directory

Packaged executable

• Open a terminal window in the base repo directory
• Install electron-packager using npm install electron-packager -g
• Package the application specifying your architecture and platform using (for example): electron-packager "./" second-brain --platform=win32 --arch=x86_64
• Run the executable that was created