Years ago I used an outliner from a small company in San Francisco--may have been a one person company. It was a DOS based program, and it worked very nicely, with commands like expand, collapse, copy or move elsewhere in hierarchy, print to level X, etc.

I can not remember the name of the program, or if any vestige of it is still around.

I remember that the person who wrote it put out a newsletter and, in one issue, had a picture of himself in costume for a part he sang in an amateur opera or theatrial company in the Bay Area. I remember too he wrote another piece of software that I got in maybe beta form that allowed the user to create idea networks (i.e., non-hierarchial connections). It came with an audio tape. It was sort of like what MyBrain now distributes.

I wonder what happened to this company and its software. I wonder if anyone knows of a good outlining program (Word is pretty clumsy to use). And I wonder if anybody every wrote a good piece of mind-mapping or idea networking software. (I'm evaluating TheBrain now-- thebrain.com .)

Thanks, Alan Shilepsky in Minneapolis
ashilep@bitstream.net

Hmmm, sounds like you might be talking about MaxThink.

JV

Look at www.inspiration.com

It is an outliner and diagram builder with outlines automatically converted to diagrams.