Software for Creativity & Idea Generation
Posted by Philip.Sutton
on 10/20/2000
Philip.Sutton
10/20/2000 5:44 am
If people are looking for outliners or ideas for new generations of software to help with creative thinking then you will find a frequenlty updated, quite comprehensive list (with web links) at:
http://www.ozemail.com.au/~caveman/Creative/Software/swindex.htm
Programs currently listed are:
1. ACTA Advantage
2. Axon Idea Processor
3. BrainStormer
4. Brainstorming 1.0.1
5. Brainstorming Toolbox
6. CK Modeller
7. CM/1
8. ComedyWriter
9. Corkboard/Three by Five
10. CreaPro
11. Creative Whack Pack
12. Decision Explorer
13. Dramatica
14. DynoNotePad
15. Genius Handbook
16. GroupSystems
17. Grouputer
18. Idea Generator Plus
19. IdeaFisher
20. IDEGEN++
21. In Control
22. InfoDepot
23. Innovation Toolbox
24. Inspiration
25. Invention Machine
26. MaxThink
27. MicMac
28. Microsoft Word (Outlining Feature)
29. Microsoft Word (Thesaurus Module)
30. Mind Mapper
31. MindMan
32. MoonLite
33. MORE
34. Paramind
35. Personal Best 3.1
36. Plot Prompt
37. Plots Unlimited
38. Powerpoint
39. Scriptware
40. Serious Creativity
41. Simplex
42. Sirius
43. StoryBuilder
44. StoryCraft
45. StoryCraftNet for Writers
46. SuperMemo
47. The Creativity Machine
48. The Electric Brain
49. The Electric Mind
50. The Solution Machine
51. Thoughtline
52. Thoughtpath
53. Turbo Thought
54. Visimap / InfoMap
55. VisionQuest
56. Visual Outliner
57. WinGrid
58. WordPerfect
59. Yeahwrite
Cheers, Philip
http://www.ozemail.com.au/~caveman/Creative/Software/swindex.htm
Programs currently listed are:
1. ACTA Advantage
2. Axon Idea Processor
3. BrainStormer
4. Brainstorming 1.0.1
5. Brainstorming Toolbox
6. CK Modeller
7. CM/1
8. ComedyWriter
9. Corkboard/Three by Five
10. CreaPro
11. Creative Whack Pack
12. Decision Explorer
13. Dramatica
14. DynoNotePad
15. Genius Handbook
16. GroupSystems
17. Grouputer
18. Idea Generator Plus
19. IdeaFisher
20. IDEGEN++
21. In Control
22. InfoDepot
23. Innovation Toolbox
24. Inspiration
25. Invention Machine
26. MaxThink
27. MicMac
28. Microsoft Word (Outlining Feature)
29. Microsoft Word (Thesaurus Module)
30. Mind Mapper
31. MindMan
32. MoonLite
33. MORE
34. Paramind
35. Personal Best 3.1
36. Plot Prompt
37. Plots Unlimited
38. Powerpoint
39. Scriptware
40. Serious Creativity
41. Simplex
42. Sirius
43. StoryBuilder
44. StoryCraft
45. StoryCraftNet for Writers
46. SuperMemo
47. The Creativity Machine
48. The Electric Brain
49. The Electric Mind
50. The Solution Machine
51. Thoughtline
52. Thoughtpath
53. Turbo Thought
54. Visimap / InfoMap
55. VisionQuest
56. Visual Outliner
57. WinGrid
58. WordPerfect
59. Yeahwrite
Cheers, Philip
rmilne
10/25/2000 9:58 am
I would just like to single out one program from this rather long and intimidating list: Thoughtline. It was released about 1990, and I first used it that year. It is really quite an amazing program. Structured along the lines of Weizenbaum's Eliza program, Dan Burns, who wrote the program, says that "Thoughtline takes up where Eliza left off. It evolved as an interactive thought generator that asks the questions each writer should ask himself. The program conducts a dialogue with the user, who types in free-form English sentences."
This can be a very interesting experience, one that can give new meaning to the phrase 'artificial intelliegence.' Sometimes the questions will be a little off in syntax, but the way it takes what you have told it and shapes it into questions to make you think about a topic is exceedingly useful.
I have lost track of Dan, and have only a very old 3.? version of the program. But it is a very handy program, and quite fun to use.
I too am awaiting the Windows version of MaxThink, a program I began using about 1986.
Good words to you,
Rich Milne
This can be a very interesting experience, one that can give new meaning to the phrase 'artificial intelliegence.' Sometimes the questions will be a little off in syntax, but the way it takes what you have told it and shapes it into questions to make you think about a topic is exceedingly useful.
I have lost track of Dan, and have only a very old 3.? version of the program. But it is a very handy program, and quite fun to use.
I too am awaiting the Windows version of MaxThink, a program I began using about 1986.
Good words to you,
Rich Milne