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Scapple, inshort

Wowfunhappy 7y ago
These both look neat, and they're apps I'd legitimately never heard of before! To save others the bit of Googling I did: Scapple: Mind mapping software, looks almost like a modern version of Inspiration. Drag notes together to connect them. https://www.literatureandlatte.com/scapple/overview https://www.literatureandlatte.com/scapple/overview Inshort: Flowcharts, and Gantt charts. Says it integrates with Calendar, which could be very useful. Wonder how it compares with Omnigraffle, though. http://www.shortki.com/inShort.html http://www.shortki.com/inShort.html
- ericbaranowski 7y ago
  I haven’t used the desktop app, just the iPad app, but InShort is more of a project management app than it is a charting app. It’s pretty comprehensive and can have somewhat of a learning curve if you’re not familiar with project management software. Their website describes it best, but I should also add that I have never found an app that solves what inShort solves. It’s almost like a combination of business process design and nested mind maps. “inShort allows breaking a complex task into simpler ones and displaying their relationship on a diagram. From the resulting map of tasks, you can compose a detailed plan and start its execution, marking the progress in the application. Thus, the application provides everything you need for working with projects.” Edit: I guess they came out with a diagramming tool to accompany the app earlier this year. https://apps.apple.com/us/app-bundle/inset-handy-diagramming-toolset-goals-projects-conversations/id1365899473 https://apps.apple.com/us/app-bundle/inset-handy-diagramming...
reaperducer 7y ago
Scrapple is $18. Hooray for sanely-priced indie Mac software! It even has an .edu license for $14.40.
- Wowfunhappy 7y ago
  Yeah, that's definitely a downside to this market. I've come to accept it. I would have missed out on a lot of really great software otherwise, that ultimately proved worth their price. (I don't think $18 is bad either, I was a little more miffed that e.g. Fission cost $30 for a pretty basic audio editor. But, again, it paid off.) Also worth considering: these prices are one-time, unless a new version includes massive changes, and even then you can keep using your old release. I greatly prefer this to subscription models!

Scapple, inshort

These both look neat, and they're apps I'd legitimately never heard of before! To save others the bit of Googling I did: Scapple: Mind mapping software, looks almost like a modern version of Inspiration. Drag notes together to connect them. https://www.literatureandlatte.com/scapple/overview https://www.literatureandlatte.com/scapple/overview Inshort: Flowcharts, and Gantt charts. Says it integrates with Calendar, which could be very useful. Wonder how it compares with Omnigraffle, though. http://www.shortki.com/inShort.html http://www.shortki.com/inShort.html

ericbaranowski 7y ago
I haven’t used the desktop app, just the iPad app, but InShort is more of a project management app than it is a charting app. It’s pretty comprehensive and can have somewhat of a learning curve if you’re not familiar with project management software. Their website describes it best, but I should also add that I have never found an app that solves what inShort solves. It’s almost like a combination of business process design and nested mind maps. “inShort allows breaking a complex task into simpler ones and displaying their relationship on a diagram. From the resulting map of tasks, you can compose a detailed plan and start its execution, marking the progress in the application. Thus, the application provides everything you need for working with projects.” Edit: I guess they came out with a diagramming tool to accompany the app earlier this year. https://apps.apple.com/us/app-bundle/inset-handy-diagramming-toolset-goals-projects-conversations/id1365899473 https://apps.apple.com/us/app-bundle/inset-handy-diagramming...

reaperducer 7y ago

Scrapple is $18. Hooray for sanely-priced indie Mac software! It even has an .edu license for $14.40.

Wowfunhappy 7y ago
Yeah, that's definitely a downside to this market. I've come to accept it. I would have missed out on a lot of really great software otherwise, that ultimately proved worth their price. (I don't think $18 is bad either, I was a little more miffed that e.g. Fission cost $30 for a pretty basic audio editor. But, again, it paid off.) Also worth considering: these prices are one-time, unless a new version includes massive changes, and even then you can keep using your old release. I greatly prefer this to subscription models!