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ThinkComposer

Comprehensive concept mapping and diagramming software beyond the graphics!

Concept map sample:

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Process Diagram sample:

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Download

Get the Windows executable

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

Documentation

Learn from the Product Manual

Source Code

Access the Git repository


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!

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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.

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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:

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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:

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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 kinds…).
  • 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/Families…)
  • Output-Templates: Define output-templates (using Liquid markup) for generate text files/code with precise syntax.

Samples

ATM Processing

(Flowchart Domain)

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Banking Products & Customers

(Class Diagram Domain)

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Simplified Universe

(Custom Concept Mapping Domain)

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Restaurant Requirements

(Use Case Diagram Domain)

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Purchase Order Placement

(Sequence Diagram Domain)

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Inventions Path

(Custom Timeline Domain)

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Production Process

(All-Purpose Domain)

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Simple Databases

(Data-Model Domain)

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Description of the ThinkComposer product

(Concept Mapping Domain)

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Military Chain of Command

(Organizational Chart Domain)

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Favorite movies by decade

(Timeline Domain)

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Sci-Fi Universes and Media

(Mind Mapping Domain)

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Model of a Company

(Business Model Domain)

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Tasty Hamburger Meal

(Custom Domain: Fast-Food Cuisine)

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British Monarchy

(Genealogy Tree Domain)

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