Stephen R. Diamond

Best software for emergent order 10/14/2007

Probably my Mac skills had already atrophied when about a year ago I tried Tinderbox, which was loaded on a Mac at the local Mac store. Whether because of the program's limitation or mine, it appeared...

Best software for emergent order 10/14/2007

I took another fairly brief look at Zoot. Correct me if I am wrong about its features and limitations. While it seems facile in manipulating items, it seems remarkably lame about manipulating catego...

Knowledge-Discovery Capability 10/14/2007

I see EverNote and OneNote as designed for different stages in research process. Evernote builds a personal database; it is a kind of archiving tool. OneNote creates a space where information can be c...

Best software for emergent order 10/6/2007

This process is nothing other than brainstorming, broadly construed and extended in time--the core function of a true outliner. To me, asking for the best program for your purpose tantamount to asking...

Ultrarecall export to OneNote?? 9/30/2007

I don't think there's an easy way. As far as I know, there are only two ways to import into OneNote--the OneNote printer and paste. Printing is a slow process, so if I were faced with your task, I wou...

A pipe dream: bare bones research writer's outliner and word processor? 9/27/2007

> On the downside: visually, I personally find the outline view sort of hard on the eyes (would be nice to have an extra half-line of spacing between >nodes, for instance). Word 2007 causes a little ...

Best writing software... 9/26/2007

SuperNoteCard's outlining is far less powerful than ndxcards, at least it seems on casual inspection of SuperNotecard. There appear to be only two levels of hierarchy, which is probably fine for ficti...

A pipe dream: bare bones research writer's outliner and word processor? 9/21/2007

Have you tried ndxcards? It formats footnotes as part of its bibliographic capacity. (I haven't used this functionality, but it would seem it supports only bibliographic footnotes. Perhaps you need a ...

Filtering in MindGenius 9/17/2007

I tried to construct the simplest filter, one hiding a single branch. I attached the Category Brainstorming Group 1 to the root of the branrch I wanted to hide. Then I set the condition as 'Categories...

MindMapper 9/17/2007

That is what I tacitly assumed, until you explicitly brought it up. But on checking, I cannot find any MindGenius EULA on any menu or online (including by google search). Gael monitors its licenses by...

MindMapper 9/16/2007

Do you know what MindGenius Education consists of? MindGenius Business, sold at academic prices. Although I have repeatedly seen advisories that MindGenius Education requires proof of academic affilia...

MindMapper 9/15/2007

Here's an expanded version with the notational inconsistencies eliminated: MindGenius Bus. 2 MindGenius Home 2 MindMapper Professional 5.0 MindMapper Professional 3.5 Inspiration MindMap Module Visu...

MindMapper 9/15/2007

MindGenius Home MindMapper Professional 3.5 Visual-Mind Professional Visi-Map Professional MindManager Hoist + + 0 0 1 Multiple selection + + + 0 1 Unlimited undo + + + 0 1 Word export 0 (1 for M...

MindMapper 9/14/2007

I might have to retract a recent posting about the best mind mapper value. MindMapper sells some of its earlier versions at lower prices.Even more so than Gael, the Bosley Group has shown unusual dis...

Mind Mapper Prices 9/14/2007

Apparently, you can satisfy the legal requirements by including _any_ hardware. (This isn't my area of law, and I don't know if the law is at all clear on whether this way of satisfying its requireme...

Mind Mapper Prices 9/13/2007

We once had a discussion about whether mindmapping software was overpriced. Some price differences may support that conclusion. MindGenius Business costs almost $300, compared to almost $60 for MindGe...

Is it worth it? 9/10/2007

> >1. I recently spoke with >Inspiration tech support. I think it may be more than a year or two before a new version >is released. Right now the company is working on something else. Two year...

Word template outliner? 9/10/2007

I don't know of any such add-on, and I'm a fairly avid user of Word, outliners, and Word ad-ons. Still, I could have missed it, but my guess is you're thinking of 'Pocket Thinker,' which provides outl...

Is it worth it? 9/9/2007

I'm less convinced that I have convinced myself than you are. Maybe you're right. We'll see. At least two major decisions remain. 1. Is there an alternative product that is likely to be _more_ suit...

Is it worth it? 9/9/2007

Cassius wrote: > >What is "fluid 'g"? Essentially, general analytic ability, in currently reigning U.S. theories of the factor structure of intelligence. (The British have a more strictly hierarch...

EccoPro: Why has nobody developed a clone so far? 9/8/2007

Does Word 2003 read XML? If not, what's the best means to export to MS Word 2003?

Is it worth it? 9/8/2007

Concept mapper - the difference mainly consisting of labeled connectors in concept maps. From a practical standpoint, however, the more important difference might be the process for creating diagrams....

Is it worth it? 9/8/2007

Cassius wrote: If you don't mind disclosing, what tests indicate your visualization abilities are poor? I'm not convinced your self-assessment is correct, in that the use of analytic features in a s...

Is it worth it? 9/8/2007

Chris Thompson wrote: > >I've never understood the popularity of >mind mappers either Good. An opportunity to test a theory. The popular wisdom is that mind mappers are for people who "think visua...

Is it worth it? 9/8/2007

Ian Goldsmid wrote: >Unfortunately, as far as I know, Mindgenius >development is not happening. Googling around on the Internet, I find MindGenius in something of the position in Great Britain as...

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