Mourning the passing of Pocketthinker

Posted by Derek Cornish
Dec 13, 2007 at 12:14 AM

As Bob Mackreth mentioned, http://www.outlinersoftware.com/messages/viewm/2989 , Pocketthinker is shutting up shop - presumably owing to lack of customers. I also notice that its forum has disappeared, probably for good.

As one of a handful of Windows outliners, it always seemed to me to be very much underrated, and am sorry to see it go (and glad to have registered it). While Outlook linking may have had teething troubles, the outliner itself provided many of the necessary basic features (although not cloning or hoisting). As a single-pane outliner I found it about as easy to work in as NoteMap or Inspiration and ridiculously underpriced. Its importing and exporting functions - especially exporting to Word - were also pretty good. I thought it had a lot of potential; but maybe battling with Outlook integration, Activ-sync problems, and developing a ppc program as well a desktop one - all at the same time - was just too much to handle.

One more reason to think seriously about moving to a Mac, perhaps. The huge Windows user-base doesn’t appear easily converted into a viable single-pane outliner market.

Derek