Question: What software is absolutely essential to you

Posted by DaXiong
Aug 5, 2011 at 11:57 PM

Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
>BG welcome!
> >I am surprised that for developing training material you don’t use
>specialised software developed for this purpose. I understand that we are talking
>regular training rather than e-courses but still. I am not particularly acquainted
>with such tools, but stuff that I remember being discussed here in the past includes
>Scenari http://scenari-platform.org/ and InfoHesiveEP
>http://www.2brightsparks.com/
> >Other than that, have you tried using a mindmap
>program as the main tool for developing the content, and publishing via export to Word
>or Powerpoint at any time, as you suggest? At least some mindmappers programs provide
>quite powerful (and well formatted) export capabilities.
>

I’ll second what Alexander said. Back in my training days, I found Inspiration essential. I wouldn’t use the mind-mapping part, just the outliner. It exports to Word, and worked well for what I was doing.

For all who took the time to reply - thank you! I see some managed to make their first post, many commented on software I’d long since forgotten about, and one even mentioned a text editor (same as me). The answers gave me the inspiration I needed, hopefully everyone reading found something as well ...