Cyborganize launched - the ultimate outliner productivity system

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Jul 29, 2011 at 06:31 AM

Gary Carson wrote:
>Overall, I
>liked Brainstorm a lot, but this auto-hoisting thing was just too restrictive.
>That’s just me, though. Your mileage may vary.

Indeed, the auto-hoisting approach is probably Brainstorm’s main concept. For building knowledge bottom-up, I find it indispensable. For getting an overview of things it is rather useless. I always copy/paste Brainstorm outlines to a mindmapping program or Treesheets (the results are beautiful) to get a bird’s eye view.

David Tebbutt (the original developer) has noted that the “balloon view” was added much later following users’ persistence, but that it was never properly developed in itself, i.e. it has remained read-only, without word wrap etc