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Posted by Graham Rhind
Dec 17, 2012 at 11:53 AM
Hopefully not too far off topic, I’m wondering if anybody can point me towards a white board software, specifically one that imitates as closely as possible using a white board with just sticky notes and a pen.
I’ve tried OneNote and Vue to do this, for example, but always spend more time fiddling with the objects on the screen than penning the structure. For example, these programs often require the “square” of the sticky note and its text to be added separately, so that they also have to be moved separately. I’ve looked at specialist packages such as Open-Sankoré and NoteateIt, but they’re way over the top for my minimal needs.
I don’t want to have to resort to buying a real white board - horrendously expensive and space wasting - and I’ve probably trialled loads of programs that would help me but which I can’t bring to mind any more. Has anybody any pointers?
Much obliged!
Graham
Posted by Dr Andus
Dec 17, 2012 at 01:16 PM
Try Story Turbo (we’ve discussed it here recently). Price has been recently dropped down from around $5 to 99c, but there is no guarantee that it’s going to stay that way (it was 99c and then suddenly put up to $4.95 or something like that a couple of months ago).
Posted by CRC
Dec 17, 2012 at 02:06 PM
Graham:
Microsoft had a lab project called “Sticky Sorter”. I installed it and found it useful. I did a search for you and I think this is it: http://allmyapps.com/apps/stickysorter-organize-notes . I think Microsoft has shut down the project.
Charles
Posted by Graham Rhind
Dec 17, 2012 at 02:45 PM
@ Dr Andus Thanks but wow! The most user unfriendly, obtuse and circuitous route to allow somebody to download a trial version of software I’ve come across in a long time. And that for a 3 day trial! From what I see I can’t draw on that story board. I literally want to create a paste and draw white board interface (a digital version of an office white board), without the need to find arrow gifs, paste them, position them. rotate them and so on - that’s what I’m finding is getting in the way with the other programs I’ve tried.
@ CRC Thanks - another circuitous route - this time requiring AllMyApps to be installed. It doesn’t work on my PC, but I do remember trialling this some time ago and then, at least, I couldn’t draw on the board if I remember correctly.
Posted by Dr Andus
Dec 17, 2012 at 03:32 PM
Graham Rhind wrote:
>From what I see I can’t draw on that story board. I literally want to
>create a paste and draw white board interface (a digital version of an
>office white board), without the need to find arrow gifs, paste them,
>position them. rotate them and so on - that’s what I’m finding is
>getting in the way with the other programs I’ve tried.
I’m not sure if I fully understand what you’re after then. By “drawing” do you mean by hand (freehand) using a touch screen or some kind of an input device?
If not, then it sounds like you’re after a concept mapping software. I’m surprised you said in VUE you had to enter boxes and text separately because you can just start typing when a new box is created, so it should be one click only. You can customise the VUE node to look like a yellow post-it note (if that’s what you’re after) and I thought the Rapid Prototyping mode was a pretty quick way of entering and linking data.