Future of Brainstorm

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Mar 15, 2010 at 10:13 PM

Steve,

I’ve also been in contact with the new owner, same as you, but I am afraid there’s not much I can add to the state of play. I do know that there’s mobility under the hood, as we had a short discussion on one specific bug (Brainstorm crashing when autosaving while editing a namesake). Also know that he’s adding some stuff to the blog from time to time http://www.brainstormsw.com/thinkerlog/index.php (the most recent entry was in November)

Last year I used Brainstorm as my main writing tool for a very large project (my MBA dissertation) and strongly felt its limitations, particularly the lack of an editable outline view. The other tool I used, Surfulater for my references, proved very satisfactory, but of course it is not a writing tool.

I can’t say I have found a replacement for Brainstorm, so I will keep it in my toolbox and welcome its further development, if and when it arrives. I’ve tried Maxthink, but it doesn’t quite fit my bill.

That said, I am impressed by two other applications that I will probably be using a lot more from now on, namely InfoQube and TreeSheets.