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Posted by eric
2000-09-23 15:00:28

Hi there,

I want to start a thread discussing the Dos-based outliner Maxthink.

From my perspective, the two-level default interface and navigational system of this outliner are peerless in terms of
their adherance to human perceptual abilities and limitations.

Working in list views or with just one superordinate and its subordinates at one time enables me to easily zero in on parts of an outline/thought structure without the cognitive strain I experience with other more `wide view’ outliners’. In that regard I find Inspiration and all the others much more limiting and difficult.

At the same time, the inability to freely import and export information from other applicatons, and from the web, and the inability to link to other file types, is a severe constraint in Maxthink.

I’ve used Maxthink to assist in project and business management, NGO and social organizing, and to write a book and many articles.

I’d be very interested to dialogue with other Maxthink users, both
regarding Maxthink itself, and regarding other outliners, such as PC outliner for windows or Inspiration, in terms of whether Maxthink users have made successful transitions to these other, more up-to-date products, and what the upside and downside of such change-over might have been.

Finally, I’ll just mention in passing that in one of my `lives’ I’m coCEO of Advanced Data Management of Vancouver, where my partner arne and I have coinvented and fleshed out a model for a much more powerful outliner/interface to replace both existing outliners and the windows interface. We need more capital for development, however, and I’m currently working in Asia as CEO of Asiajobs Recruiting service to garner the cash.

Cheers,
Eric

Personal page at http://www.worldstewards.com/http://www.worldstewards.com/id83.htm

——-Original Message——-
From: Myers, Kent C.

Sent: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 16:21:54 -0400
To:

Subject: also a Maxthink user

I’ll try Inspiration, but I was hoping that you would tell me whether I
should perservere!
(I use MaxThink every day. It is indispensible, and has surely affected my
thinking,
as it did Neil’s, who always seemed to talk in tightly written paragraphs
with no transitions.)

Kent Myers

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