Those who liked Notebox Disorganizer ( http://www.geocities.com/goosnargh37/ ) might be interested to try out a work combination with Brainstorm, resulting in a powerful 3-dimensional organising system.

A whole Brainstorm model can be written to the clipboard with tabs and pasted into a single cell of a Notebox file. Tabs marking levels are maintained, which means that the cell contents can be re-imported to Brainstorm for hierarchical editing.

Thus, one can have a table of notes where each cell can be opened in Brainstorm as a hierarchical model, effectively adding an extra dimension to the table view.

Given that tab-indented text notes can be imported to most mind mappers and a few outliners as well, this combination is not limited to Brainstorm models, though I personally prefer its text paradigm.

I am now thinking of creating a couple of macros to quickly switch from Notebox "overview" to Brainstorm "detail" and vice versa.

alx

Alex,

On what kind of project would you anticipate using this system, as opposed to a more standard organizer?

Stephen Diamond

In practice, the main thing I am currently missing is printing of the grid for pasting on a bulletin board; I've gotten around this via screen capture and printing but it's far from ideal.

Alexander,

I recently checked out Writer's Blocks (www.writersblocks.com), which, as you probably know, uses a column format for organizing atoms of text. It isn't quite the "spreadsheet" format of Notebox Disorganizer, but it can approximate it (with headings for columns but not labels for rows). Anyway, Writer's Blocks does allow you to print the columns as you see them on the screen. It isn't free software ($99 US if you take advantage of their discounted price within 10 days of download).

Steve Z.