Re: The dissimination of outliners, was Re: NoteMap -- Greg

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Posted by stephenz
2005-09-30 08:58:37

> The easiest demonstration of this fact is that we have already repriced NoteMap for many prospects. We’ve repriced it to $0, i.e., free, for school systems systems and have even spent energy trying to get schools jazzed about giving free outlining a try.

I can understand how being unable to give your product away must be a kick in the head, especially since NoteMap is clearly a labor of love.

Here’s perhaps another unwanted suggestion: if you add columns with user-defined meta data to NoteMap, you could position it as an information manager with powerful outlining features, as opposed to to merely an outliner. Perhaps this would expand your market. You wouldn’t even need to change the name, as “NoteMap” sounds more like a PIM than an outliner anyway.

> I’m sorry I’ve turned into such a cynic, but isn’t the bottom line pretty much this: Outlining is a way to organize thinking. And the vast vast majority of people are not the least bit interested in thinking or in working hard on their thinking.

You and me both (in my case, it comes from living in the USA at this particular moment in history).

Steve Z.

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