Whiteboard apps
There are a number of apps and websites these days that offer white boarding capabilities. Among them are Canva, Miro, Lucid to name a few popular ones. However, I prefer Scrintal and Mindmup for my white boarding activities because of the easy of use both apps provide.
Scrintal can be found here: Scrintal.com and Mindmup here: Mindmup.com
Whiteboards require arrows to depict flow and relationships. With Canva and others, first the arrow must be selected from a group of them in the left sideboard then manually placed and manipulated to the proper orientation.
Inevitably, there comes a time when you have to rearrange the boxes to make room for more boxes or to make the whiteboard more understandable.. With the apps like Canvas and Miro, the arrows don’t adapt to show connections in the rearranged whiteboard. The arrows are static and have to be deleted and replaced. This is an onerous task that I refuse to take on.
Hence, my preference for Scrintal and Mindmup. With these two apps, adding an arrow is as simple as selecting the starting box then selecting the ending box and the two are connected by an arrow. The arrow’s direction can be changed or modified to show arrow heads at both ends.
In these apps whenever you rearrange the diagram, the arrows adapt to stay connected.
While these differences may seem small at first, the can make a huge difference when the whiteboard is large and complex. An example of this is my Book Business Concept Map: https://atlas.mindmup.com/hanque/book_business_concept_map/index.html
Another large whiteboard example is my Why are Your Unpublished? https://atlas.mindmup.com/hanque/unpublished_writers/index.html
Taking a cursory glance at these whiteboards, you can see the advantage of the arrow features in Scrintal and Mindmup apps.
I’m in the process of creating a number of new whiteboards. You can find links to all of them here. https://www.hankquense.online/s-projects-side-by-side
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