Re: The praise of BrainStorm

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Posted by graham.smith
2005-10-11 17:26:40

Peter,

It may be a concept thing, I tried Brainstorm a couple of times, got hopelessly lost, and gave up. At least in part because I was expecting an Outlining tool, which Brainstorm isn’t. For me, Brainstorm is more a grabbing data in a disorganised manner and then re-organising it tool.

So I think there are two problems with Brainstorm, the first is graspng the concept - and the videos on the web site are a great start. The second is getting up to speed with the ways of moving data around and the different ways of viewing the data. Once you can throw text around in Brainstorm without needing to think about what you are doing, it becomes a very fast and flexible tool.

Being able to split the model into pockets is one of its strengths because it allows you to see several parts of the same model at different depths at the same time - if you see what I mean.

But it does take a bit of getting used to.

Good luck:-)

Graham

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