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MaxThink: Another one-pane outliner bites the dust
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Posted by Stephen Diamond
Nov 25, 2018 at 11:09 PM
MaxThink doesn’t run on Windows 10. At least I can’t get it to.
Posted by Jeffery Smith
Nov 26, 2018 at 12:37 AM
I loved MaxThink on MS DOS. But Neil could not afford to pay a programmer to make a Windows version. He initally planned to do it himself with Delphi, and ultimately wrote it with Visual BASIC. I could not hack the user interface, and immediately fled to a now-dead outliner for attorneys. Then I fled to Mac.
Posted by Andy Brice
Nov 26, 2018 at 11:53 AM
Productivity apps seems to have a mortality rate comparable to first world war pilots. ;0)
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Andy Brice
http://www.hyperplan.com
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Nov 26, 2018 at 02:32 PM
If this forum had a little “heart” icon to click, I would have for this comment!!
Andy Brice wrote:
Productivity apps seems to have a mortality rate comparable to first
>world war pilots. ;0)
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>Andy Brice
>http://www.hyperplan.com
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Posted by Stephen Diamond
Nov 26, 2018 at 08:59 PM
Jeffery Smith,
What do you use on the Mac? OmniOutliner? How would you rate the defunct NoteMap compared to OmniOutliner?
The best outline processor for writing on Windows today, it seems to me, is far and away Inspiration 9. (Despite its promotion primarily as a concept mapper.) (This omits InfoQube, but my hunch is that a program that’s difficult to learn, as IQ is apparently, will not be fluid to use, unless you really use it a great deal.)
Inspiration is also available on the Mac. How would you rate it compared to Omni?
So many questions! I too use an outline processor primarily for writing legal briefs.
By the way, my impression is that MaxThink could have been great in its Windows incarnation, despite its limitations, if only it had a (multiple) undo capability. I made too many mistakes to continue using the program, but if I could have undone them, I think my fingers would learn. I see “Undo” as a basic outliner functionality, but it is absolutely indispensable when the interface is terribly complex.
Jeffery Smith wrote:
I loved MaxThink on MS DOS. But Neil could not afford to pay a
>programmer to make a Windows version. He initally planned to do it
>himself with Delphi, and ultimately wrote it with Visual BASIC. I could
>not hack the user interface, and immediately fled to a now-dead outliner
>for attorneys. Then I fled to Mac.