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Posted by Graham Rhind
Dec 17, 2012 at 08:28 PM
Graham Rhind wrote:
>Can anybody, on the off chance, remember that software’s name?
Found it! Think Composer: http://www.thinkcomposer.com/
Posted by Dr Andus
May 24, 2013 at 10:49 AM
Story Turbo is now free:
They are also trialling a web-based version, but I found it buggy for now:
Posted by Hugh
May 27, 2013 at 06:14 PM
Not referenced in this thread, but IIRC in the corkboard thread mentioned above (and also in previous threads) is Curio - a pretty damn wonderful realisation of the digital whiteboard concept. For the Mac, and not inexpensive. Reviewed comprehensively in its latest incarnation by Steve Z. here: http://mac.appstorm.net/reviews/productivity-review/curio-8-the-ultimate-project-workshop-gets-better/
If you have a Mac with Lion or Mountain Lion installed, find yourself planning a project that is reasonably complex and may have a visual dimension, and can justify the ticket, I don’t know of anything better.
Posted by JerryNotts
Jun 27, 2013 at 03:25 PM
Graham Rhind wrote:
Graham Rhind wrote:
>>Can anybody, on the off chance, remember that software’s name?
>
>Found it! Think Composer: http://www.thinkcomposer.com/
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I have lurked on this site for over a year, finding the contributions very interesting. I have now progressed to registering and asking for some advice.
Can I ask Graham whether, now that 6 months have passed, he has actually used Think Composer?
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. Some of these can amount to at least 50,000 pages of text on some topics such as the controls on Pharmaceuticals.
I do not need to concern myself with detail such as the chemistry, only with the way that compliance can be sought at the simple level such as ‘herbal extract - do this’ and ‘industrially produced - do that’.
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.
The text of the passages relevant to the individuals are extracted to Connected Text which I adopted after trying Zotero, Ultra Recall, etc etc . . .after reading Dr Andus’s contributions on this site and his own very comprehensive site.
At first glance at their site Think Composer looks promising, unless anybody knows different.
Thank you
JerryNotts
Posted by Graham Rhind
Jun 27, 2013 at 07:45 PM
Jerry,
I have registered ThinkComposer and I’ve done some fiddling with it, though not as much as I had intended. It’s powerful, and the developer is very communicative and continues to update the software, but I found the interface somewhat awkward (probably only because I use a pen and tablet to input rather than a mouse).
My own initial use for it is to graphically illustrate a very complex wiki (also in ConnectedText) - the wiki needs to be sorted out before I start on the graphics, which is why I haven’t worked with ThinkComposer a great deal as yet. I’m also mulling over using KnowledgeBaseBuilder (http://www.buildyourmap.com/) but that needs a little work before it’s really useful - it’s been updated regularly but there’s been a little pause in its development so I haven’t registered that one yet.
I don’t know if that helps at all!
Graham