defense of Maxthink

Posted by Guido
Nov 17, 2007 at 09:27 PM

I understand the objections to Maxthink above but have to say that they are not fully justified.

As a lawyer, I used Notemap, but abandonned. Maxthink has a lot of features that I didn’t find until now in other outliner software.

- the binsort command
- automatical hoisting : you only see the parent and its childs ( like in brainstorm ) ; you are forced to concentrate on the active project
- very very fast creation of topics and also navigation as you get used to its key shortcuts
- the gathering command

Maxthink can either be a one - pane or a two - pane - outliner, it depends on if you toogle F 2.

I used and tried so much outliner and mindmapping software, but most of it comes with features that impress you first, that you have to learn in consequence, but that aren’t necessary for structured thinking and working.

Human short - term memory can only concentrate on 7 +/- 2 items at once. This is why I prefer outliners with automatical hoist function. Brainstorm and Maxthink are the only ones I could discover until now.

As for the ugly design of Maxthink : well, there are people that prefer to do their writing in programs like Darkroom, others prefer to have colors and sounds and fancy around all the time.