White board software

Posted by Dr Andus
Jun 28, 2013 at 12:02 AM

JerryNotts wrote:
>Can I ask Graham whether, now that 6 months have passed, he has actually
>used Think Composer?

Hi JerryNotts - welcome to the forum. I haven’t looked at Think Composer since its beta stage, so I’d be interested in hearing about it more, as it looks like it had a few more updates in the past year or so.

>I am going to give it a try since I need a method of illustration to
>others (individuals, not classes) of how various EU Regulations and
>their national implementations and their guidance actually work and
>interlink.
> >As you may gather I am attempting to produce a straightforward
>illustration of the main principles and link to the detail. Most
>software only allows for a level of abstraction without such detail as
>the penalty for certain offences.
>Currently I keep all the originals as PDFs under various categories on
>my PC.

My question would be whether your needs are to produce something quickly (brainstorming, concept development) or to make something look good (presentational purposes), as for me those are two different categories of software (although if one puts the time in, possibly the first category can also produce decent visuals).

In the first one I would put VUE, CmapTools etc., in the second category I’d put SmartDraw and the likes. SmartDraw can be expensive the first time, though they do have offers fairly regularly, and once you’re on the bandwagon, the upgrades get cheaper (though I stopped with v. 2012).

Anyway, since SmartDraw 2012 they have some more advanced functions for presenting complex information, such as “information hubs” or “visual gateways.” Here is some more info on this:
http://www.smartdraw.com/solutions/information-access.htm