Re: Software for Creativity & Idea Generation

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Outliners.com Message ID: 797

Posted by max30
2000-10-27 07:32:34

I looked around for this program and had no luck, but I did dig up an interesting fact… there’s an upgrade to this program. Info follows:

Thoughtline was a pretty neat program in the í80s. Its artificial intelligence was useful for brainstorming and weaving your bright ideas into organized articles. But weíre not surprised itís having troubles under Win95.

Xpercom went belly up in financial juggling around 1993. But the programmer who invented Thoughtline recently released a descendent of the older tool. Itís a Win95 program called A Muse (E-mail: @yahoo.com). Like Thoughtline, A Muse interviews you and creates a speech, article, or report. Unlike Thoughtline, Muse can automatically search other databases, or even the Internet, to tap tangible information that you didnít have and incorporate it
into your brainstorming and outlines, pulling in quotes supporting your key concepts, even dialog with others whoíve published on your topic. It can be set up to recognize speech and talk back to you. One caveat: The newer product requires, and runs as an integral part of, Microsoft Word 97.

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