It files itself
Name a few interests — your reno, a research thread, tabletop games. Every capture auto-routes to the right one. No folders, no filing, no empty-bucket guilt.
Pre-launch · Your daily Brief + a second brain
One Brief a day. A second brain for life.
Point your newsletters at BrainTrellis and it returns one Brief a day — your stories sliced out, clustered, and written up at the depth you choose (5 to 30 minutes). Keep what matters, and a second brain quietly grows underneath — learning what you love and what to skip.
- No card to start
- One calm Brief, not an inbox
- Export anything, anytime
today's Brief · 23 stories → 9 written up
- GLM-5.2 is the new open-weights leader AI Tools · 4 sources
- Anthropic's Economic Index, cadences AI Business · follow-up
- "Sponsored: scale your RAG" set aside · ad
One Brief, every morning. And it learns what you love — so it gets sharper, not noisier.
Every door in — including ones nobody else has.
Web
Text & photo (SMS/MMS)
Email-in
AI chats
Browser extension
CLI
MCP / agents
REST API
Import (Pocket, Notion, Readwise)
Refugee from Pocket or Omnivore? Bring your whole library and let it sort itself.
Saving things is easy. The hard part is everything after.
Every app gives you a place to dump links. BrainTrellis does the three things that actually turn a pile of saves into something you use.
It learns what to ignore
Wave a card away and it remembers. BrainTrellis stops resurfacing what you keep skipping — the only second brain that gets quieter the more you use it.
It brings it back
A 5-card daily review and time-boxed catch-ups bring things back when you have time — so what you keep actually grows into something.
Every kind of capture, in one place.
A stray thought, a checklist, a link, a photo, a clip, a book you snapped, even a shared AI chat — auto-tagged and routed to the interest it belongs to.
A second brain that thinks with you.
Save anything — even AI chats
Links, photos, videos, voice notes — and shared ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini conversations, captured as first-class notes. The thinking you do with AI finally has a home.
It pre-chews for you
An LLM summarizes and clusters what you save, so a tangle of fragments becomes a few coherent threads — ready to actually read, not just re-stack.
Find by meaning
Semantic search across everything you've kept. Search "that pricing idea" and get it — even if you never wrote the word "pricing."
Ask your brain
Pose a question in plain language — "what did I find about onboarding?" — and pull a synthesized, cited answer straight from your own captures.
Catch up when you're free
Connect Google Calendar (read-only, opt-in) and BrainTrellis proposes catch-up time in the gaps you actually have — then writes the block in one tap.
Notes that drain
Tend something and it leaves the feed instead of haunting it forever. Progress you can see — your interests get lighter, not heavier.
Folders inside interests
Group the notes inside an interest into named folders — Gear, Trip planning, Trail journal. One tap, no upkeep.
Share a corner of your brain
Invite your partner into an interest or folder. Their notes wait in a review lane until you wave them in — then catch up together.
Make it yours
A dozen hand-tuned themes — Dracula, Catppuccin, Nord, Tokyo Night — or import any VS Code theme. Light, dark, or match your system.
BrainTrellis vs. a pile of saved links.
Saving things is a great start. It's also where most apps stop — and where your best finds go to die.
| Capability | A pile of saved links | BrainTrellis |
|---|---|---|
| Ways to capture | A paste box | Web, SMS, email, AI chats, extension, CLI, MCP & API |
| Organization | Folders you maintain | Auto-routed to the interests you care about |
| Learns what to ignore | Shows you everything, forever | Stops resurfacing what you skip |
| AI chats | A dead link | First-class, pre-chewed & searchable |
| Makes sense of it | You re-read everything | Summarized & clustered into threads |
| You actually process it | It rots unread | Daily review + gentle, time-boxed catch-ups |
| Works with AI agents | — | Hosted MCP server + CLI + API |
| Price | Often free — then sold or shut down | From $8/mo — independent, export anytime |
Start free. Grow into it.
AI included — no add-ons, no credit-card roulette. Cancel anytime, export everything.
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The daily ritual, on the house.
- A daily Brief from the feeds you forward
- Shallow depth — the 5 & 10-minute read
- Keep · To-do · search · ask-your-brain
- No deep reads or weekly synthesis
$7/mo
$8/mo
$84 billed yearly · $7/mo
billed monthly
- Full depth — the 15 & 30-minute read
- Unlimited topic deep-dives
- The weekly synthesis of your dailies
- Everything in Free
$149once
Lifetime Pro · first 250 only
- Everything in Pro, forever
- One payment, no renewal
- Grandfathered as the product grows
Every plan: your data is yours. Export the whole trellis anytime — no lock-in.
For builders & AI power users
Your interests have an API. So does your AI.
BrainTrellis was designed agent-first. Capture, recall, map, and update over a clean four-verb API — secured by OAuth 2.1 with device flow. Wire it into Claude in one command, or drive it from your terminal.
- Hosted MCP server — Claude reads & writes your trellis
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trellisCLI with device-flow login - OAuth 2.1 — PKCE, scopes, refresh tokens
- Personal API tokens for scripts & Shortcuts
# plug your trellis into Claude $ claude mcp add braintrellis # capture from anywhere — even a shared chat $ trellis capture "https://chatgpt.com/share/…" ✓ routed to "Tabletop RPGs" # pull a thread together $ trellis map "monster of the week" → synthesizing 9 related captures…
Three steps. Then it runs itself.
1
Capture anything
Type it, text it, share a link or an AI chat, pipe it from your terminal, or let an agent drop it in. One door for everything.
2
It routes & learns
Each capture files itself under the right interest, gets summarized into threads, and learns from what you keep — and what you skip.
3
You tend it
A daily review, a weekly nudge, and one-tap catch-ups bring it back when you have time — so what you kept grows into something.
Give your interests a place to grow.
Stop drowning your best finds in a feed you never revisit. Fire them in, and let BrainTrellis do the filing — and the forgetting.
No card to start · Pro from $8/mo · Export anytime