What is MindWrite?

In recent months the veteran outliner ThinkTank has been joined by the more full-featured More and desk accessory outliner tools like Acta and Voila. As proficient as these products may be at creating outlines, each falls short when it comes to expanding an outline into a full-fledged document. The convenience of using an electronic outlining tool for writing projects diminishes when you have to alternate between the outline application and a word processor.

MindWrite, from MindWork Software, offers a solution to this problem by combining an impressive oudining tool with a moderately powerful word processor. The program operates in a single mode, allowing you to move freely between outline and document. You can convert a picture or a paragraph into a heading and change it back at any time. In fact, you can mix outlines and paragraphs within a single document. You can also insert graphics, but you can’t wrap text around them. At present, MindWrile's word processor lacks such features as multiple columns, footnoting, mail merge, and spell-checking (although it works with MacLightning and Thunder). In saving and loading files, scrolling, and inserting and deleting words, MindWrite’s performance on a Mac Plus is comparable to MacWrite 4.5, faster than Microsoft Word 1.05, but slower than WriteNow. On a 512K Mac the performance is slower than MacWrite.

Macworld. (April 1987). Two Minds in One. (pg. 160).

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Architecture

Motorola 68K

System Requirements

From Mac OS 1.0 up to Mac OS 6.0

Compatibility notes

Emulating this? It could probably run under: Mini vMac