Knowledge & Media Management made easy & powerful

BrainAnnex.org is being set up as a non-profit, to empower scientists, professionals, and people at large, to thrive rather than drown in today's information overload

Open-source web-based tool (can also run locally, or be integrated into existing sites.)

Meant for anyone who has NOTES, DATA RECORDS or MEDIA...

at your fingertips – effortlessly organized, searchable and updatable – from any location!

A whole technology stack built on top of the Neo4j graph database

When the storage of knowledge/data is combined with a network of "relationships" among the data entities, and a UI layer with easy viewing/browsing/updating/searching – that's when it can feel like a handy "annex" of your brain!

Note: the video below is from an old version of BrainAnnex, which emphasizes a limited use case. The new version, currenly in Late Beta, is much more general.

3-min video – lots of details: best watched full-screen, at high resolution!

Knowledge and Media/Datasets Management made easy, powerful and convenient

for scientists, professionals, students, companies, non-profits, engineers...

Need something simple?	If you can post status updates on social media, you can use Brain Annex in its basic functionality!
You are a Power User?	Brain Annex was created by people like you who desperately needed a very powerful tool!
Business User?	Brain Annex is a platform that allows you to easily create plugins and integration for your specific neeeds.
Data Engineer?	You can think of Brain Annex as a schema and UI on top of Neo4j, with Python and JavaScript/Vue visualization/editing software attached to schema classes, and Flask/Vue for the UI.

Freely mix up formatted text notes, documents, images, graphics, data tables, spreadsheets, video, audio – synergistically used together with the power of Semantic Technology. For example, to manage:

class notes
work/research notes
notes from hobbies
notes from everyday life (bills, medical)
personal-growth notes (journaling, progress)
music collection
photo/video collection (personal, work or research albums; artist porfolios)
website bookmarks (with optional annotations)
documents (the contents of any uploaded PDF files become searchable)
new plugins for special needs can be created easily
optionally sharing some of of your pages with others or making them public

How to use it? On the cloud, or directly installed on your local machine.

The software, as of August 2022, have been in active use for over 6 years, by a growing number of users.
Brain Annex is available as open-source software (Repository).

IMPORTANT NOTE: the new version 5.0 of Brain Annex is a complete, major overhaul of its entire technology stack.
Currently in late Beta, and based on Neo4j, Python, Flask, Vue.js, it also provides support for arbitrary complex datasets, and advanced querying capabilities.
Unlike the earlier versions, this new Brain Annex is aimed at organizations or very technical individuals, rather than to a more general public.
No hosted solutions are available at present; you will need to host it on your own server, or run it on your desktop.

Possible usage:

add/remove pages from Brain Annex to suit your neeeds
integrate Brain Annex into your existing site
conversely, integrate your existing site into Brain Annex
graft your own front end over Brain Annex (used as backend and for admin functions)

LEARN MORE:

Basic Usage (brief video of the EARLIER version; parts are no longer applicable, and new features not shown)
What's Brain Annex really about?
Read More
Repository