Month: February 2012

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Visual planning of web sites – Slickplan

Slickplan helps you plan visual maps for websites, and makes images, PDFs and links to send to website owners for discussion during the design stages.  It’s easy to use.  There’s an example here, based on a small part of the the Mind-Mapping.Org website.

This is a free, online web app, based in your browser, so there’s nothing to download or install.

I see no way of making flowcharts with this, despite its claims to be a sitemap/flowchart generator.  There are no conditional diamonds, nor any shape other than rectangles.

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Visual note taking

From Japan, but working in English, iroha Note takes a textual approach to visualization – or a visual approach to text notes (take your pick).

Its free version feels rather like clustering with Post-it notes, but adds the capability to freely associate notes using visible but subtle linking lines.  In an optional box on the left, an outline appears to show the macro-level structure.

The paid-for version, iroha Note+, adds in the ability to paste images into the notes (called leaves), export images and print.

This is desktop software, running in Adobe Air, that can be used on Windows, Mac and Linux.

I found a few operational glitches when using it, but nothing I couldn’t work around.  It is under active development, so we can expect these to be fixed.

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