Re: Back to the GrandView

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Posted by sub
2004-05-04 14:14:00

I’ve just bought BrainStorm (http://www.brainstormsw.com) after trying it out for a while and being fairly impressed. It’s not an outliner, though it has an outline (“aerial”) view of entered information. It’s a text-based idea/information organiser, with full web publishing features.
It started out as a DOS-CP/M program and it can still be completely keyboard navigated, which I like very much. I find it is a very well developed program; there’s lots of clever features like “magic-paste” which facilitates data collection, and others that make re-organising a breeze. Cloning is there too, in the form of “namesakes”.
A lot of common sense seems to have gone into it which, as Oscar Wilde pointed out, “is not so common”. In fact, it took me a while to realise how well it’s structured just because I found it so unusual compared to anything else I had tried.
Cheers
Alexander

P.S. Last but not least, it works with the Greek character set!

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