Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!occrsh!uokmax!apple!voder!pyramid!alh From: alh@pyrnova.pyramid.com (Alan Holzman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: whatever happened to MindWrite? Message-ID: <126602@pyramid.pyramid.com> Date: 11 Sep 90 15:13:44 GMT Sender: news@pyramid.pyramid.com Reply-To: alh@pyrnova.pyramid.com (Alan Holzman) Organization: Pyramid Technology Corp., Mountain View, CA Lines: 29 In article <83531@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> RD Francis writes: >In article <91187@cc.utah.edu> KOFOID@cc.utah.edu writes: >>Is MindWrite now a dead product or is it still supported? I have version >>2.1, sold by Access Technology, Inc. >>I still think it is the best outliner >>ever made for the Mac. > >It's hard to tell, right now. A company called DeltaPoint now has the >rights to both this and Trapeze. If I remember correctly, DeltaPoint >may have been formed by ex-employees of Access Technology when Access >died/dumped the software/whatever. I believe that both Trapeze and >MindWrite are still being sold. I know that DeltaPoint recently >released DeltaGraph, so they presumably still have a programming staff. >-- >R David Francis francis@cis.ohio-state.edu DeltaPoint IS Access Technology with a new name. The DeltaGraph program has been incredibly sucessful and their focus seems to be 100% on DeltaGraph right now. I use MindWrite and also believe that it is the best outliner ever produced. Acta is quick for short memos or notes, however; it pales in terms of power and functionality next to MindWrite. Even MORE is not as powerful or as easy to use for pure outlining (and much MORE expensive) . To those of you that think and write in outline format a great deal, MindWrite is a really intuitive tool. Now we need to flood DeltaPoint with accolades for MindWrite, get them to re-position it as an "Insanely Great" Outliner that also does medium level wordprocessing instead of as a wordprocessor that also outlines, and have them committ to doing another release beyond 2.1 ...