IdeaFisher is one of my favorite programs. Its benefit is the ability to associate ideas, just like we do. It's like plugging in an expansion module into your brain. The associations you make in your thinking are suddenly increased many-fold by IdeaFisher's creative suggestions.
IdeaFisher is now ThoughtOffice, and I don't own a copy. ThoughtOffice taps the internet, and includes images in its associations--certainly a boon.
But ThoughtOffice cut out IdeaFisher's most appealing and useful feature: the ability to add your own associations and ideas to the ThoughtOffice database.
I really liked being able to add associations to the IdeaFisher's database of ideas. It's as if ThoughtOffice turned the IdeaFisher model on its head, giving me countless associations but no ability to delete those I don't care for nor to add my own.
How I enjoyed IdeaFisher! Over time my "version" of IdeaFisher became startlingly familiar, a database of my thought processes, surprising me with associations I'd never made myself between my own ideas--it out-thought me. It was rather spooky, like the thing was my smarter twin, having original thoughts that could have been mine.
How many times have the simple, elegant uses of a program been hobbled by "improvements"?
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
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