Re: The Bottom Line

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Posted by sub
2004-10-07 17:27:12

I would choose Brainstorm. Its (objective) competitive advantages:
(1) awesome structural versatility (2) Magic Paste to easily gather info, intelligently stripping it down to plain text as single paragraphs, if required (3) automatically finds clones (“Namesakes”) in info already entered (4) automatically creates structure as one enters info through focused operation (5) powerful and intuitive re-organising features (6) fast and easy on PC memory (7) unlimited undo, even on structural changes (8) licensed by user, not by PC… the list goes on.

I admit that my choice is also based on (subjective) personal criteria: (1) I keep switching from right to left brain tasks and vice versa, i.e. jotting down ideas and reorganising (2) I love the simple user interface that doesn’t get in the way (3) I am grateful for its keyboard-only based operation when I’m writing (4) I like to buy European products…

What Brainstorm doesn’t have, i.e. collapsable overview and RTF, can easily be provided by the regular office suites. Its exporting capability is getting better all the time, as is a lot more, thanks to a very responsive programming team.

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