(a very long shot) Looking for Mind Tools by Widget Software, Psion 5MX, 1999!

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Posted by Dave M
Mar 9, 2018 at 10:11 AM

Hi All,

This is a real long shot, but recently I’ve resurrected a Psion 5mx as a portable, keyboard-based instant-on writing device.

At one stage, I bought a piece of software called Mind Tools by Widget Software, both of whom have long disappeared. It came on a floppy disk, with a box, and a manual.

What was reasonably unique about this software, and which I really miss, is that the outliner and mindmap were interlinked, so changing one changed the other - they were both manifestations of the same thing. The only other software I’ve seen behave this way has been Storyspace/Tinderbox, but I can’t stuff that in a pocket and pop it out for instand editing so easily.

Having explored as many remaining online archives as I can, I wondered if anyone here had a copy floating around, and if they’d be willing to share/sell it to me. I’m happy to provide proof of purchase, which I still have for it.

(There’s a few versions around online of the demo, but there’s no save functionality in it. Psion, Epoc, Widget Software are all long gone, so I think it’s reasonably safe to consider this abandonware - though I’d pay for a copy).

Thanks - apprehensively - in advance, and apologies if this is the wrong place to post this - please remove if so.

I can be emailed at davemee@gmail.com, if that’s also permissable!

- Dave

Posted by Franz Grieser
Mar 9, 2018 at 10:40 AM

Hi.

I was just going to point you to the psionwelt.de forum - just to see that you already know the forum.
I recommend you post a request in the “Flohmarkt Suche” section.

Good luck.

Posted by Dave M
Mar 9, 2018 at 10:54 AM

Thanks, Franz!

Sadly my German-speaking ability is incompetent to zero, so I couldn’t even figure out how to register an account on there. I did stumble across that site and found a reference to it - I saw someone selling a copy! - but whether they’ll catch a comment on a four-year old post is another thing entirely.

Much appreciated, all the same!

It’s amazing how many digital things just drop off the radar so quickly. The internet is far less permenant than we like to tell ourselves - permanence of things is something that’s a consensual decision, it seems.

- Dave

Posted by Franz Grieser
Mar 9, 2018 at 11:23 AM

In the meantime, you managed to login and post your request. :-)

Posted by Dave M
Mar 9, 2018 at 11:31 AM

Thank you pointing me at the right place. :)

Now to find the intersection of people on a German forum, who speak English, and have an electronic copy of a piece of software that’s not been on sale for 20 years distributed on a medium that’s not been viable for 18 years…

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