BrainstormSW updates or alternatives

Posted by Joshua Cearley
Jan 26, 2014 at 11:19 AM

Dr Andus wrote:

>Well, if that’s a concern, then you’d be better off with Brainstorm or
>some other offline outliner. To me the cloud aspect of WorkFlowy is a
>plus, as I can have it synced on all my devices. I can’t even imagine
>how to live completely off the grid now. Pretty much everyone I know
>uses at least Gmail or Hotmail or Yahoo or Dropbox.

There’s a world of difference between being completely off the grid, and using cloud services only when it makes sense to do so. Some like e-mail make sense because if GMail went down, using Thunderbird wouldn’t help you much (well except for keeping archives of your mail locally…)

What is more disturbing (to me) than trying to concieve how someone lives off the grid, is how many people are comfortable handing away any and all information to data miners or companies with poor privacy and security policies.

(btw. I’d love to see more offline outliners, there really aren’t that many good ones for Windows or Linux. Most of them (like CT’s) are just basic uses of the Windows tree control, and don’t offer the full suite of clone & hoist or tagging.)