Feedback Storyspace is not designed to provide feedback to the user except in process areas such as organization and text. Feedback, where desired in instruction, can easily be provided through the Note tool. Also, Storyspace users can import text using MacWrite or TEXT format from almost any word processing, desktop publishing, or document scanning program. Screen design is clearly a strength of Storyspace. Its menu and toolbar are simple to understand and already familiar to Macintosh users.
Initial screens are attractive, uncluttered, and simple.
The advantage of the screen design is that individuals can move quickly through large amounts of material. The software is as useful for advanced researchers as it is for undergraduate students. In writing a lengthy paper on David Hume's Treatise and Inquiry, for example, I found Storyspace extraordinarily useful in connecting notes and random thoughts to emerging text. Storyspace encourages writers to work in the middle, at the beginning, or at the end of papers, which facilitates initial brainstorming. Map views allow writers to see and manipulate the structures and interconnections of their work.