Brainiac v1.2 released

February 22, 2026

Hello everyone!

I have been using the Brainiac intensively over the last months and made some changes to the configuration along the way. Get your update here.

Improvements: – Added journal.org to the list of refile targets. – Reduced the width of comment, source, etc. boxes in brainiac.css. – The attached items are now visibly listed in the drawer of the headline. – Minor changes in the configuration, e.g. increase of idle time etc.

New things: – Added org-crypt to the config, so that sensitive information can be encrypted if storing files on public servers. – To integrate Brainiac into your system menu, I propose the following: copy brainiac.desktop to ~/.local/share/applications and brainiac.svg to ~/.local/share/icons. – I added basic AI support by using a customized ollama-buddy-mini and running models locally with ollama. Although I previously stated that Brainiac would not have AI, the chosen combination presents a nice compromise between functionality and privacy. – I also introduced the abbrev-mode as a template storage for some useful org templates and as a mechanism for storing AI prompts for future usage. – In order to consolidate important functions and keystrokes, I configured a menu which can be reached by pressing C-c b using transient.

Have any thoughts or comments?