With the new release of MindManager 6, and its new feature of the editable outline, how does it now match up ñ in general features and specifically in its outlining capabilities ñ with NoteMap (I choose it, as it seems to be the high end of outliners, and most commonly referenced here as the best available, such as on the Taxonomy of Knowledge Management tools a while back).

For the features and abilities, would you agree that BrainStorm + MindManager outbeats Brainstorm + NoteMap?

What Iím thinking of in particular, is using Brainstorm as ñ well ñ the brainstorming tool of just plumping down text, then importing into MindManager for both the outlining finessing and the visual representation as a mindmap. Why not brainstorm in MM? ñ you can, but I find chunks of ideas are much better plunked into something like Brainstorm, while individual words/phrases are best put into a mindmap, and thus brainstorm in a mindmap when it is short bursts of words, not longer chunks of texts (such as for expository writing, etc).

Arguments?

For the features and abilities, would you agree that BrainStorm + MindManager outbeats Brainstorm + NoteMap?<

Yes. MindManager has become a very powerful program. It is one of the few outlining type programs that I have rejected flatly because of complexity. If you don't mind the complexity, in a feature race it easily beats NoteMap.

Stephen Diamond