Re: GrandView 2.0 castaway sending smoke signals

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Posted by kremsdorf
2003-12-28 21:31:44

MindManager doesn’t require a hierarchy—when new ideas arise they can be plopped down anywhere. This allows moving things around to see where they might fit best to be done more easily.

I have done similar things with outlines, but being able to spread things out seems to be helpful to me and the groups I do it with. MindManager also allows collapsing but my favorite part is grabbing a chunk of ideas from one place and moving them elsewhere—much easier to follow what is happening when things are laid out than in an outline. SInce I often do this in trying to make sense of what a group is saying, and the group members are looking at the projected map, this is pretty useful—and often accompanied by a sigh or exclamation.

Words that describe how it works are a poor substitute for playing with it and seeing if it is personally useful.

If one is working alone and is comfortable with the tools one is using, no need to change. I changed because I had to link smoothly to Word and Powerpoint because of my work environment.

I actually went from Framework(Ashton Tate) to Maxthink to GrandView to Ecco to INspiration to MindManager. There is a windows version of Maxthink out now, btw.

What new, fully functional, and fully supported computer outliners are out there?

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