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New Scientific Brainstorming Software for Inventors

Windows, Mac and Linux

We have released the world's first scientific brainstorming software
program in the form of our Scientific Word Category database. This
scientific version comes in the form of a 100 Word Category database
that any Windows (3.0 or above), Mac (OSX 1.0 or above) or Linux
ParaMind user can brainstorm with. Each one of the 100 Word Categories
contains up to twenty-two words of scientific terminology.

The program replaces words in the user's sentence, which contains his
or her idea or problem, with the new word categories making totally
unique and interesting new combinations.

Anyone who uses ParaMind 3.0 and greater (including ParaMind Lite 3.0)
can now greatly improve their brainstorming experience with these
products. Scientists working in advanced fields can get fresh new
insight on any idea because our products are totally configurable.
Anything -- word, symbol, or phrase -- can be typed on the ParaMind
screen. Also, the user can create their own "segments of thought" (we
call these "Word Categories") to use again and again in their
brainstorming sessions. We have taken the work out of this by creating
over 1100 Word Categories to use to brainstorm with your sentences.
This makes ParaMind totally configurable.

Not only do these new "segments of thought" or Word Category add-on
packs allow you to brainstorm in new, uncharted areas, they help your
program operate very efficiently when the brainstorming process is
more automated. Where competing products charge as much as $300 for
different versions, ParaMind offers you their add-ons for $29.95 each.

Here is a list of the Word Categories in our new Scientific Database
Number One. Each one of these contains to 22 words each. See below for
some examples.

Nouns for adaptive electronic filters
Nouns for adaptive structures
Nouns for agent science
Nouns for analogdigital
Nouns for analysis of vibration
Nouns for antenna theory
Nouns for antennas and propagation
Nouns for applied mechanics
Nouns for artificial intelligence
Nouns for bearing and lubrication
Nouns for biology 1
Nouns for biology 2
Nouns for calculus 1
Nouns for calculus 2
Nouns for calculus 3
Nouns for capacitive sensors
Nouns for circuit analysis
Nouns for circuit theory
Nouns for circuits and systems
Nouns for CMOS
Nouns for color imaging
Nouns for communications system algorithms
Nouns for computational intelligence
Nouns for computer vision
Nouns for control systems 1
Nouns for control systems 2
Nouns for cryptology
Nouns for design of experiments
Nouns for digital broadcasting
Nouns for digital communication
Nouns for digital recording
Nouns for digital speech
Nouns for digital video
Nouns for diseases 1
Nouns for diseases 2
Nouns for distributions
Nouns for electric circuit analysis
Nouns for electromagnetics
Nouns for electronic theory
Nouns for emission monitoring
Nouns for environmental scienc
Nouns for fluid dynamics 1
Nouns for fluid dynamics 2
Nouns for fluid dynamics 3
Nouns for frequency synthesis
Nouns for fuel cells
Nouns for genetic algorithms
Nouns for hydrology
Nouns for industrial manufacturing 1
Nouns for industrial manufacturing 2
Nouns for intelligence and methods
Nouns for internet modulation
Nouns for lasers 1
Nouns for lasers 2
Nouns for linear circuits
Nouns for manufacturing science
Nouns for measurement
Nouns for measurements of fluid flow
Nouns for mechanical measurement
Nouns for medicine 1
Nouns for medicine 2
Nouns for medicine 3
Nouns for meteorology
Nouns for microstrip circuits
Nouns for microwave engineering
Nouns for noise control
Nouns for noise
Nouns for oceanography
Nouns for quasioptical arrays
Nouns for radio science
Nouns for radiowave propagation
Nouns for robotic systems
Nouns for science department jobs
Nouns for semiconductors 1
Nouns for semiconductors 2
Nouns for semiconductors 3
Nouns for simulation
Nouns for solid mechanics
Nouns for space propulsion systems
Nouns for speech signal coding
Nouns for stability
Nouns for statistics and probability
Nouns for stress and failure
Nouns for stress mechanics
Nouns for structural dynamics
Nouns for temperature
Nouns for vector and dyadic analysis
Nouns for wave propagation 1
Nouns for wave propagation 2
Nouns for wireless transceivers
Verbs for adaptive filters
Verbs for analysis of vibration
Verbs for cryptology
Verbs for imaging
Verbs for manufacturing science
Verbs for science 1
Verbs for science 2
Verbs for science pasttense 1
Verbs for science pasttense 2
Verbs for wave propagation

Here are examples of the content of some of the new Scientific Word
Categories:

These science categories can be especially fun or even profitable when
merged with the Word Category upgrade for Law and Business.

The standard general purpose brainstorming version of ParaMind comes
with 500 Word Categories, except the more recent versions for Mac OSX
and Linux which contain 650. There is also the new 150 Word Category
upgrade for ParaMind for Windows. ParaMind also has a special database
for Law and Business of 300 Word Categories. Registered users also get
a free upgrade pack with 47 Word Categories. With all these databases
now ParaMind has 1147 Word Categories to brainstorm with. That's a lot
of new ideas!

First few chapters of the manual:

ParaMind
Brainstorming
Software
Professional Version

Owner's
Manual

CHAPTER ONE
Welcome to ParaMind Professional Version

We are happy to introduce you to our first version of the advanced
ParaMind Brainstorming Professional program. In this version there
are many important changes. The ParaMind Professional Version is a
much more powerful program than the ParaMind Standard Version. The
merging power is now automated and helps you make many more ideas by
creating much larger merges of your ideas in quicker amounts of
time. A maximum of twenty-five Word Categories can be selected for a
Large Complex Merge or a Large Simple Merge compared to only two in
the earlier versions.

The ParaMind Professional Version allows multiple windows to be open
at a time, creating a separate window for each merge and displaying
the results of the merge in a new window. The number of Word
Categories you can have in a single directory has been expanded to
1250 in the Professional version.

The "Replace by Category" function has been significantly improved.
"Replace by Category" is a search method that looks for your word in
the ParaMind database. Some search methods in computers will only
find your exact word. If you are doing a web search on "apples," if
you type in "apple," you won't get "apples," but only "apple." You
will not find as many results. So we found a way in our old programs
to have the user find Word Categories that have both "apple" and
"apples." We call that search method "Replace by Category Partial."
We have also created a method that let's you find the exact word,
which we call "Replace by Category Exact" If you are looking for
"apples" you will only find "apples," not "apple."

We have also added many new words to the existing 500 Word Categories
that have come with ParaMind and cleaned up some of them up. That is,
earlier versions of ParaMind made no claim to having Word Categories
existing in the same parts of speech. In releasing 3.0, we made a
move to have all words in a Word Category be in the same part of
speech. The Professional Version and Standards Version 3.1 further
completes that transition. Almost all Word Categories that had less
than the maximum number of twenty-two words have been increased,
adding hundreds of new words in the process.

In creating the ParaMind Professional Version, we tried to come up
with a program that had the most power possible. Like using any other
tool of great power, there can be use of it that can be unskilled and
initially disguise the true use of the tool. There emerged certain
tricks that allowed even the beginner user to create great brainstorms
virtually automatically. These tricks are important to know because
they introduce new concepts to even older users of ParaMind.

Please note: in creating this program we made a program that saves its
merges automatically on your hard drive. We did this in earlier
versions, by having ParaMind create the single "Merge.txt" file every
time it merged. But because ParaMind creates many files now in an
automatic way, we had to create many files in your ParaMind directory
every time you Merge. These files can add up in used hard drive space
quickly over time. YOU MUST MAKE SURE THAT YOU DELETE THESE FILES
UPON EXITING THE PROGRAM IF YOU ARE NO LONGER USING THEM. For
example, these files could possibly increase in size to 500 megabytes
after making less than thirty ParaMind Large merges, which you could
make in about two hours of use. Many of today's computers have hard
drive spaces of 20 gigs or more, so it is often not a problem, but
make sure that you save your good merges some place other than the
TEMP directory in the ParaMind Folder and select "Yes" when ParaMind
asks you to delete Merges upon exiting.

How many times you select "Yes" to delete the Automatically-Saved
files will depend on how large your hard drive is, how big your Merges
are, and how much hard drive space you want to give to ParaMind
compared to other software programs.

CHAPTER TWO
General Information About ParaMind Professional Version

There are many automated features in this version of ParaMind. The
automated merges are like an interesting exploration into uncharted
territory. The program works like the old proverbial computer program
in science fiction movies in which the film's star ask a question to
the computer, and then gets told or handed back a printed-out answer!

Sometimes, if you know what you're looking for, it can better be done
by making those choices yourself, but if you would like to just
explore your idea's relationship in language without any pre-conceived
notions, this is the software program that will do that.

The way ParaMind makes these automated or massively increased-in-size
large merges is by creating files in the "Temp" folder inside the
folder you installed ParaMind. These files are automatically saved
there whenever ParaMind makes a merge. This means that the hard drive
space in files that ParaMind uses can build up easily. On an
average, in one half-hour of making large merges, you may easily use
200 megs or more of hard drive space. This is similar to the size
that any professional graphics program would make upon creating many
automated special effects on photographs and saving a dozen or more
high-resolution images in that time. By not deleting merges when
asked, you are deciding on saving such large files. To avoid the
building up of these files on your hard drive, we have provided a
quick delete button, that will delete all the automatically saved
files in the temp folder within your ParaMind directory/folder.

When creating merges, the numbers next to your sentences are randomly
produced by ParaMind so that ParaMind can save on the hard disk the
information you have created in a unique way. Randomly produced
numbers make great titles, because they do not overwrite each other.
In a future version we hope to have a field where you can type in a
title before you merge that will help you identify which sentence has
what words in it. Right now you can rename such sentences by finding
them in My Computer or by Opening them in ParaMind and selecting "File
Save As."

To find out how many megabytes of hard disk space you're using for
ParaMind, go to the
Desktop (usually the first area that comes on when you turn on your
computer) and double
click on My Computer. You probably have your ParaMind folder in what
is called your "local disk C." You first click on your C drive and
then you should find the ParaMind folder there. You can double click
on the ParaMind folder and then right mouse-button click on the Temp
directory and select the properties menu item on the menu that comes
up with you click the right mouse button. It will show you how many
megabytes of space your merges are taking. For those who know how to
use their CD burners, you can make unlimited amounts of merges by
simply backing up these files in the Temp directory to CD.

You can also save them when they are up in the ParaMind screen into
the Saved Folder.
To close all the windows you have up, go to the Windows menu and
select Close All.

Automatic Merge is the most automated of all the features. Once you
type in a sentence and select the Automatic Merge button, it
automatically depresses "Automatically Select Words" and
"Automatically Select Categories." Once you select the Automatic
Merge button, then move the mouse over a little to the right to
"Simple Large Merge" and click that button. ParaMind will then
automatically select all the words in your sentence to merge on, and
automatically select Word Categories to expand your sentence with
based on what Word Categories are in your directory.

Selecting the Complex Large Merge with over ten choices of Word
Categories is not an action to be done without some thinking and
warning done before hand. In the old style of computing, it causes
your computer to work on an automatic processing mode. It will
produce even more Windows than Simple Large Merge and will cause
ParaMind to work automatically for some time perhaps on older machines
even over five minutes. On older computers, it is best not to have
any other applications running when you do this. If you hit alt-
control-delete, you may see a message that says "Application Not
Responding" but this is normal and simply means that the program is
automatically processing data and is presently busy. You do not have
to shut it off, but beware of the disk drive space you may be using
over time as ParaMind Merges can become very large.

You may occasionally see the term "merge key" to come up in messages
when you are making selections. This simply means the word in your
original sentence that you are working with.

ParaMind often gives you more accuracy when you are using the Replace
by Category Exact or making the selections yourself. An important
difference between selecting Automatic Merge and Automatically Select
Words is that Automatic Merge automatically starts the Merge once you
select Large Merge or Complex Merge thereby taking away any additional
choices.

In older versions of ParaMind, users may have used the Merge Wizard
more often than the direct Simple or Complex Merge functions, but now
with these new features, the Merge Wizard can sometimes slow down the
process of making choices and the quickest way to go is to select
Automatic Merge with either Simple or Complex Large Merge.

"Change Selected Word" is used when you want to select either large or
small amounts of
words in your sentence. Pressing it once and making all the
highlighting disappear allows you to easily select one or more words.
Pressing it again will let you select one or more words that you don't
want to merge on.

You can select "Replace by Category Exact" or "Replace by Category
Partial" to automatically find the Word Categories that your word
falls into while you're in the dialog box. It will automatically do
the processing for you there.

CHAPTER THREE
Tips for Using The ParaMind Professional Version

Because much of the use of the Professional Version can be automatic,
this can create sentences that are sometimes not grammatical. With the
Automatic Merge feature, we have only allowed merging with the Replace
by Category Exact to cut down on the more random types of choices the
program makes when selecting Replace by Category Partial. In future
versions we will introduce Automatic Merging on "Replace by Category
Partial," which can make a computer run on automatic sometimes over
one hour. It creates hundreds of Merge windows of text.

One way to create more meaningful sentences is to merge on short word
groups, say up to four words. Good ParaMind sentences, as displayed
in using short word groups, have fewer multiple word phrases. Word
phrases often are not good in Automatic and other merges because words
in phrases work in unity with each other. When you merge on one word
that was supposed to work in unison with other words, you get word
phrases containing words that were never supposed to co-exist. This
is unlike the replacement of a single word adjective or noun in a
merge with another single word adjective or noun.

To show the power of using short word groups, let's take the short
word group: "fun birthday party places" and click on the Automatic
Merge button. Then we select the Simple Large Merge button. With
the Word Categories included with ParaMind we came up with an
automatically-created interesting brainstorming list that has among
them these suggestions:

musical birthday party places
laughter birthday party places
Caribbean birthday party places
boat birthday party places
beach birthday party places
lease birthday party places
fun costume party places
fun dance party places
fun birthday rock band places
fun birthday guitar places
fun birthday chips places
fun birthday sail places
fun birthday star places

To use the Automatic Merge, we use condensed versions of our idea
sentences. For instance, if one is looking for work, and one wants to
get hired and work in an office, and get a good salary, we would take
four major words.

"Office employee hired salary"

Automatically, ParaMind came up with many interesting merges or idea
lists.
They are not in the form of grammatical sentences, but ParaMind can
also do that. However, with the Automatic Merge, since it merges on
every word in your sentence with you having
to pick any words, it sometimes will not be easy to make perfectly
grammatical sentences but instead best results are created using a
"brainstorming shorthand."

Here are a few ParaMind made automatically selecting Complex Large
Merge
(at this point, ParaMind does not distinguish between words needing a
"an" or words simply need an "a"). We did not select many because
the outputs form more associations with the reader, and are not easy
to explain.

agency employer hired salary
agency fee hired salary
agency gain hired salary
agency trade secret agreement protection hired salary
agency protection of employer's rights hired salary
agency parties bound at worldwide locations hired salary
office beneficiaries hired salary
office continuous service hired salary
office duty to maintain written record of work hired salary
office assignment clause hired salary
office assignment to employer as part of employment agreement hired
salary

All these terms come from standard business Word Categories and so
when they are personalized to fit your interest, there can be
inspiring results.

It's interesting the linguistic relationship that these Word
Categories create. For instance, the word "office" is often
associated with the word "party," as in "office party." So ParaMind
gives you an example of social interaction in a work environment.
This is the beauty and dynamics of the ParaMind Word Category
environments working together: they show you the different
relationships words have to each other.

If you put in many determiner words or prepositions, words such as
"other," "the," and "few," you have more of a choice of also not
having grammatical sentences. The program will put in different types
of determiners than yours and it will change the grammar of the
sentence.

For instance:

"To get a good job, you have to be skillful."

should be in a brainstorming shorthand:

To get good job, be skillful

And then ParaMind can come up with this advice:

"To get fat job, whistle skillful."

If we want to do a creative writing example, let's say we are writing
a science fiction program, we can use short groups of science fiction
type words such as

lightspeed space star ships
or
space people star ships
or
space people future city

Here are some we picked from a Complex merge on "space people future
city" that were also created automatically by ParaMind.

space people future oceanside
space minister future city
space agent shadow city
space children particle city
space church rough city
implant people future city
implant nurse far city
alien nurse sad city
zone professor future city
star schools future city
cosmic ray protestant future city
cosmic ray chairperson future city

Of course, you can select any of these for a new group of merges and
start again.

(Note: make sure you don't highlight your entire sentence when you
merge. For example, if you select Automatic Merge when highlighting
your sentence ParaMind will think your sentence is one word.).

If you like the way one word is coming up in your merge outputs and
idea lists, you can do a search on just that word to be taken to the
areas where it is represented so you can quickly read that area. If
you don't like the way one word is coming up in your merge outputs and
idea lists, you can do a search and replace on just that word to be
taken to the areas where it is represented.

Any time you use Replace by Category Exact, you will get a smaller
merge than if you were to use Replace by Category Partial. And to
make the largest merges, you would pick up to 25 Word Categories by
hand.

You must always select at least one category when the program prompts
you for it. Also, the Automatic Merge will occasionally determine if
your sentence is better off with a Simple Merge routine rather than a
Complex Merge one, so occasionally you will see the title bar of your
windows saying Simple Merge instead of Complex Merge.

To get the largest merge results you would not use Automatic Merge.
Try selecting "Automatically Select Words," which will automatically
also select "Automatically Select Categories" and then select "Merge
Wizard" and then "Complex" for the merge type. Also select "Replace
by Category Partial." All you do at this point is press the Next
button through all the choices until you arrive at the Finish button
on the "Ready to Merge screen." You will get many more merges doing
this routine than the Automatic Merge routines.

If you are finding that you still want more merges to be created at
one time, simply unselect the
"Replace by Category" type you are using. The "Replace by Category"
will stay selected as a type of a toggle -- once you use it, you have
to unselect the functions completely if you want them off. Then after
you have your sentence on the screen, select the "Complex Merge"
button (one can also do this with the Merge Wizard and selecting
"Complex"). Make sure all the words are highlighted as words to be
merged on. This is what the "Change Selected Words" menu does -- it
automates the selection of all words or no words, which can be useful
when you are using this shorter sentence brainstorming shorthand.

Make sure none of the checkboxes are selected. You sometimes have to
click them off in sequence because using automatic features will keep
them selected for you. If a "Replace by Category" box should be
checked, you can also unselect it in successive screens, which will
then show an unfiltered list of all of ParaMind's Word Categories.

You can then use the Filters if you have mostly nouns, and change
Filters in the middle of the merges.

For instance, if we use our "Space people future city" example, you
would use the Adjective filters on "space," and the Nouns filter on
"people," the Adjectives filter on "future" and then the
Nouns filter on "city." This greatly speeds up the choice of
selecting good ParaMind Word Categories.

CHAPTER FOUR
General Introduction

ParaMind is a program that expands your ideas by copying them and
changing each copy
a small bit by replacing old words with new ones. It uses a simple
word processor on which you
can type anything, or import any text from other programs. You
highlight a word in the
sentence you brought onto the ParaMind screen. ParaMind will
then give you a list of
hundreds (or even thousands) of different word categories that
you can use to expand your
ideas. These word categories are related word chains, such as
colors, speeds, feelings,
descriptions; word chains such as "adjectives related to the
adjective 'nice'" or "verbs related
to feeling."

ParaMind copies the sentence you wrote on the screen several times
and puts a word
from the "Word Category" database in the place of the word you
highlighted. ParaMind
works like a mail-merge routine. A mail-merge is the computer
function that puts a name
and address in a form letter to address the same letter to
different people. The sentence you
write or import onto the ParaMind screen takes the part of the form
letter and the "Word
Category" database takes the part of the list of names and
addresses.

To learn how to use ParaMind one first learns about the
structure that their ideas can take and also the structure of the
"Word Category" database included with the program. There are two
areas to study in creating ParaMind output. One is in creating
your own "word categories" and the other is in creating key
sentences which make good output. The second step is to realize
your need to always create a sentence that will represent the
basic idea that you want ParaMind to expand. This sentence is then
typed onto the ParaMind screen. Then you access the "Word Category"
database.

ParaMind has features that are unique, and other features which are
common to Windows programs. The unique features are all found in the
"Create Menu." They are as follows:

Merge Wizard
The "Merge Wizard" allows you to create new, large and interesting
text files
from your original idea by automating the menu choices. You can type
in your sentence
or paragraph, or simply paste it in from any Windows application that
uses text, even e-mail
or Web pages. You will be asked to select words to replace in your
text with word categories
that are related to your word's part of speech (nouns replaced with
nouns, verbs with verbs,
and so on).

Many of the examples in this manual refer to the Small Merge but are
based on the general theory that is used in the Merge Wizard.

Small Merge
"Small Merge" is used to create short lists of sentences that contain
new ideas directly related to your idea.

Large Merge
"Large Merge" is used to create long lists of sentences that contain
ideas made with words
you've selected or found with ParaMind's assistance. It speeds up
the brainstorming process. In
two or three minutes of mouse clicks, you can come up with documents
that are 80 pages or
more double-spaced, and which are all related to your idea. Large
Merge is separated into simple and complex, both of which use
different styles to explore your topic.

Simple and Complex Large Merge will be explained later in this
manual. These merges now operates in the same original manner, except
starting in ParaMind Version 3.1, up to 25 words can be used in the
merges.

Replace Highlighted Word
Uses the same technique as the "Merges," but only replaces the word
that you are working with
instead of copying out lists of new ideas as in Merge. It allows you
to search through the Word
Category database and decide which related word chain has the best new
word choice for you.

Find Word to Substitute
This is a brainstorming tool that takes your text, which again can
be imported from any word
processor, and looks for relationships in the ParaMind database.
These relationships are word categories which can be used in merges
to expand the ideas of the user in a logical fashion related to their
subject.

Replace by Category Exact and Replace by Category Partial
These functions allow you to merge only with Word Categories that have
the same words as your sentence on the ParaMind screen. This can
used when you have a large list of
specialized databases, or by anyone who wants to create their own Word
Category databases related to what interests them.

Automatically Select Categories
When you select this item, all the Word Categories in the Word
Categories list will become initially highlighted. This is used for
automatic merging or when you use
Replace by Category to automatically select the Word Categories that
appear. You will find this as a button, a menu item, and a checkbox
in the Large Simple Merge or Large Complex Merge window.

Automatically Select Words
When you select this item, all words in a Large Simple Merge or a
Large Complex Merge will become initially highlighted. This is used
for the Automatic Merging to automatically select words in your
sentence. You will find this as a button and a menu item.

Automatic Merge
When you select this item, all merges will be automated. For
instance, for a Large Simple Merge, a merge will automatically be
performed on the highlighted word. The merge will include all the Word
Categories that exactly match the highlighted word. Sometimes with
ParaMind you can match words that have partial parts of them matching
your word. This works as if the "Replace by Category Exact" function
has been selected. For any Large Merge, the merge will automatically
be performed as if each word was selected and with each Word Category
that exactly matches each word that was selected. You will find this
as a button and a menu item

Category Type
When you click on this button, a menu of category types will appear.
By selecting a Category Type, only Word Categories within the selected
Category Type for the current word will be displayed in the Word
Categories list box. You will find this as button in any merge
window.

Change Filtering
When you click on this button, a "Filters" menu will appear. Filtering
allows the Word Categories to be filtered by Word Type. Word Type is
just a slightly shortened expression for Part of Speech. For example,
by selecting the Word Type "Noun," only the Word Categories that begin
with "Nouns" will appear in the Word Categories list box. You will
find this as a button in any merge window

Change Selected Words
When you click on this button, the "Replace by Category Exact"
checkbox will become selected, the "Automatically Select Categories"
checkbox will become selected, and each word will become highlighted.
The user then can control parts of the merge without ParaMind working
completely automatically, as in Automatic Merge. You will find this
as a button in the Large Simple Merge or Large Complex Merge
window.

Merge Window Size
When you select this item, an input box will appear. The limit
specified in the “Categories used per page:” input box, limits the
size of each merge window. When a window reaches the specified
limit, a new window containing more results will appear. The
customize feature is especially useful when you want to limit the
amount of information displayed per window, effectively limiting the
amount of windows created per merge. You will find this as a button
in the Large Simple Merge or Large Complex Merge window and menu item.

Delete Merges
Selecting Delete Merges will delete the Merges that ParaMind has made
and saved for you in the Temp folder inside the ParaMind directory.
Do not delete these unless you are sure that you want them deleted
because if you have not saved your merges elsewhere, you will have no
other copies of your Merges. You can chose to save the merges you
like manually by selecting them individually and selecting "Save
As." If you don't delete the merges, they will continue to fill up
your hard drive space. If you no longer have hard drive space, your
computer will not operate properly so remember to delete them on if
you do not have a large hard drive.

Word Category Database
You can customize the "Word Category" database by a simple, user-
friendly interface that
lets you title a category and type in your own list of words. You
can do this as many times as
you want, and organize them in their own directories.

In the "Word Category" database included with ParaMind there are
nouns about many
different subjects. Also there are many groups of verbs,
adjectives, and adverbs as well
as prepositions and conjunctions that you can use to merge into the
sentence you typed.

ParaMind offers you an instant way to generate new ideas. Other
brainstorming programs
require the user to generate lists of nouns, verbs, adjectives and
adverbs, and then hand you
back lists of jumbled phrases that frequently don't make
grammatical sense. These lists are
supposed to be "triggers" to your more meaningful thoughts
concerning your idea. Other
programs give you a list of questions that you are to answer. The
power of quickly creating new
combinations of ideas are not in these programs. With ParaMind, you
don't have to write down
all your ideas on a pop-up editor, you export your ideas to a word
processor.

With ParaMind, you don't have to create your own word lists unless
you want to. You
simply type your sentence onto the ParaMind screen, and highlight a
word, select "Merge" or
"Large Merge," and select a category that represents the area you want
your idea expanded in. It
is a technique that has at its center a radical new idea in
brainstorming.

ParaMind is a lot like a word processor. Which one of us, when first
turning on WordPerfect
or Microsoft Word could use all of its features? It is the same
way with ParaMind; it is a
program that you will be able to get more and more done with by
each use. To people in
research or creative endeavors the learning curve that it takes to
understand ParaMind will not
be a problem because like programming in advanced languages there is
nothing else like it.

If a word processor was just a program that let you type text onto a
screen then word
processors would be easy to use. If a word processor didn't have
any features such as search
and replace, format, copy and move, and find, it wouldn't really be
that much more valuable
than a typewriter. Today, we do know how to use those features, and we
are glad we are glad we
took the time to learn them. Likewise, there are worlds of new
concepts waiting to be explored,
and discovered for profit in any realm of life. ParaMind is the
only program that offers you a
way to find them systematically.

By its very nature, ParaMind takes a little time to understand
because it does new
things. New things have to be learned in order to be useful.
Think of how easy many of our
computer programs are now to many of us. This manual is written to
make ParaMind a familiar
program, and help you be able to use your computer as a radical
research and development
machine.

ParaMind is designed to be most efficient when you customize it
to fit your needs.
Adding your own word categories, making your own directories with
those categories and your
own selections of the categories we have given you, all help to make
a brainstorming program
that boosts your creativity, productivity and organization.

FIVE BASIC SKILLS FOR USING PARAMIND

Here are five basic skills/requirements any user will need to
develop new ideas with ParaMind.

1) Type or paste in your sentence. ParaMind won't do anything without
your sentence on its screen.

2) Design a sentence that has a "opening" in it to be replaced by the
Word Categories. This "opening" takes the place of a word in the
sentence that you see needs expansion. For instance, it can be the
word "blank" in the example: "This company needs blank work done to be
exciting." Make sure the sentences you type in are designed around
those openings.

3) Get to know the Word Categories in the Category Types included with
the program. These are the words that will expand your sentence.
Contact ParaMind for different Word Category packs you can obtain.

4) Try to collect a few sentences that you would like to merge on to
have handy when you use ParaMind.

5) Make sure the "Replace by Category" functions don't have a check
mark next to them unless you know why they are checked. These are
advanced features. In exploring ParaMind you may have toggled them on
by accident. They are used to see if your word is in the ParaMind
database, expecially useful if you have customized the database.
These functions work best with the registered version's five-hundred
Word Categories in the "All" directory.

You will find many new ideas. They might not all make grammatical
sense. What is most
important is that they are all in context. Context is more
important than being grammatically
correct. No other creativity package developed uses the
Merge-Copy routine, so no other
program can offer you your new ideas in context. That is why they
feed you back silly word
jumbles.

In linguistics, the study of language, it is found that "gibberish"
can sometimes be grammatically correct, but it makes no sense because
no word is in meaningful context with the other word. No words are
semantically related to each other. In a few seconds you can change
the grammar of the sentence, but if the sentence doesn't contain
references (your original sentence) there is very little chance that
there will be any meaningful context. Only ParaMind offers you the
ability to always have your ideas in context, and that way new
information that is introduced will always be related to your
key idea. ParaMind keeps things in context by copying your whole
sentence so that the majority of your new sentences contain some of
the information in your old one.

Included with our top-level registered version is a special program
called PMSelect. PMSelect takes out lines of text in a document and
copies them to another document. This might sound like the "cut" or
"copy" feature except that this small program will let you take out as
many lines as you want even if they are not next to each other. This
means you don't have to highlight, select copy, paste, highlight,
select copy, paste, etc.

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