Re: More on Brainstorm

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Posted by david
2004-09-21 07:18:15

I think that BrainStorm’s information gathering tools, especially ‘Magic Paste’ make it easy to collect information from all over - websites, Acrobat documents, other programs.

The manipulation features are many and various and the keyboard shortcuts are lightning fast. Throw and Retrieve, for example. And what about selecting a bunch of items in any sequence and move them so they arrive in their selected sequence? There’s more, of course.

Output-wise, the tabbed outline is good, as you say. But it’s even neater if you choose the ‘clipboard’ option. Then just paste into the destination program.

In a few days, a new version will add a plain HTML outline format. (As opposed to the present JavaScript/table-driven replica of the BrainStorm environment.) This is good for any program which readily understands HTML. Brainstorm Software is providing a .dot file for Word users, which turns the clipboard tabbed output into a ten-level outline with different type-styles at each level.

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