defense of Maxthink

Posted by Derek Cornish
Nov 18, 2007 at 01:10 PM

Steve:

> I do know that Brainstorm sometimes gives me a feeling of claustrophobia because it is so relentless at focusing on one level at a time. Editing text in MT feels easier.

I share this feeling, which in my case comes from long use of Grandview. I’m looking forward to trying out MaxThink again. In its DOS form it was the most like GV in terms of features - though not so much in mode of operation, I seem to remember (but that was a long time ago). It’s lack of multiple undo, as Stephen mentioned, is a pity, but GV only has a single undo, so it won’t be much of a change for me.

One practical problem of trying out MaxThink for Windows, incidentally, is that if you have previously run the trial on one particular computer you problably won’t be able to do so again; the evaluation copy zeroes out in terms of days remaining. I had briefly evaluated Maxthink 2-3 years ago on this computer, so it would not run again - even to the limited extent of showing the GUI. The solution, Neil Larsen informed me, is simple: just install the trial on another computer.

Derek