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Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Jul 23, 2018 at 01:55 PM

Inspiration had two winning features that appealed to me:

1. It was much more than a mind map. It did diagramming in many modes. In fact, I think “mind map” was a style of diagram they added late in the game.

2. It was also a very capable outliner, and you could switch between outline and diagram views.

Sadly, my experience with Inspiration pretty much mirrors yours, Hugh.

Steve

Hugh wrote:

>I had a licence for it when I used Windows. I liked it. In fact I used
>it to think through and plan a very large bid and start-up project in UK
>television. At that time it seemed to be one of very few mind-mapping
>apps available. Once I’d moved to Macs I owned an Inspiration Mac
>licence. But then Inspiration’s developers decided to address the
>education market, and they neglected - at least to some extent - the
>development of functionality that would have been useful in business or
>writing environments. As far as I was concerned they had gone off-piste,
>and I sought other mind-mapping software. I see from its website that
>it’s still plugging its advantages for educational use.