Néstor Sánchez A.

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ThinkComposer

Comprehensive concept mapping and diagramming software beyond the graphics!

Download: Windows executable

(The Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 (full) must be preinstalled)

Documentation: Product Manual

Source Code: Git repository

Screenshots

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Concept map sample:

Process Diagram sample:

Generate complete Reports from your Concept Maps

Export the rich information of your Concept Maps as PDF/ XPS documents. Plus, generate HTML Reports which can be easily published in your website!

Create composite Concept Maps

Each Concept Map symbol or connector can have a whole new Concept Map within it. So, they can span multiple nested levels and be referenced with shortcuts.

Visualize basic and extended information

Objects can include title+subtitle, pictogram, markers, plus hanging details. Example of a food product visually represented, plus a couple of simple details:

Show/hide and format the relevant details

Objects can be further detailed with attachments, links and tables. Example of a beverage visually described, including precise details in a table:

Features

Create, expose and navigate multiple levels of interconnected knowledge

Composability: Diagrams are Multilevel, not flat. Each Idea (Concept or Relationship) can have a whole nested diagram within.
Expressive Ideas: (Concepts or Relationships) can have Name/Title, Summary, Pictogram (representative image), a rich-text Description and Versioning information. Plus, you can give a distinctive visual style to them.
Powerful Relationships: Relationships can link from/to Concept, other Relationships or themselves, with multiple origins and targets, implement predefined Link-Roles with variable connectors and have differentiated visual styles.
Shortcuts: Reuse Ideas, on different diagram Views, by referencing them through shortcuts instead of duplication.
Markers: Tag your ideas with descriptive Markers.
Reports: Generate descriptive reports about your Compositions.
Complements: Include legends, information-cards, callouts, notes, stamps, images, titles and group regions (boundaries).
File/Code Generation:: Extract your Ideas information into output code/files (XML, TXT, or your own custom format).

Easily include detailed, graphic, descriptive and structured information

Attachments: Append images, text other types of files relevant to each Idea.
Links: Reference an external file, folder or web page.
Tables: Save precise and structured records (data-type based).
Custom-Fields: Extend your Ideas with personalized information fields.
Import: Populate your tables from external files (tsv and csv).
Designations: Give a proper name and describe the intended use of populated details.
Composite Content: Alternatively, you can show the composite content (internal diagram View) in the Details Posters.

Define your custom business/field Domains for specialized requirements

Domains: Define your own Business Domains or Fields of Knowledge.
Concepts and Relationships customization: Define your specialized types of Concept and Relationships.
Linking Constraints: Control the types of Ideas which are linkable from/to others.
Link-Role Variants: Determine available variants for link-roles (eg.: multiplicity/cardinality, connection kindsâ€¦).
Predefined Markers: Create your own, well described, marker types.
Predefined Details: Declare details that Ideas will have, including structure (for Tables).
Stock Data: Pre-store information about your domain (eg.: Currencies, Units of Measure, Product Codes/Familiesâ€¦)
Output-Templates: Define output-templates (using Liquid markup) for generate text files/code with precise syntax.