I've mentioned Brainstorm, a Britsh ideas-processing program, a few times in Web watch (eg here, here and here). Now an updated version has been featured somewhere far more prominent: in The NewYork Times.
There, James Fallows says: "BrainStorm is a return to the early days of personal computing, in its resemblance to outstanding DOS-era programs like XyWrite and GrandView" but "behind this simplicity is surprising power, or so I have found since buying it on a friend's recommendation several months ago. The program makes it very quick and easy to add, subtract, rearrange, or reconsider information you are working with."
BrainStorm is not for everyone. Fortunately, it offers a 30-day free trial. The normal price is £40, or about $70, but it costs half that much if you go to Brainstormsw.com/welcome.html and enter the "secret" code 2534. (Eccentrically, the company prefers this roundabout discount to just having a sale.)
As Brainstorm's blog, Thinkerlog, records, the mention created enough activity to take down Brainstorm's Web server for a few hours.
Comment: I've known David Tebbutt, the man behind Brainstorm, for almost 25 years -- since he was editor of Personal Computer World -- and have commissioned him to write articles for the Guardian. Most recently, in May, he reported the Les Blogs conference for Online.
