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flow charts
May. 13th, 2002 08:42 pmI've got a new toy! a 30-day free trial of SmartDraw.
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barakta?)
I've been drawing flow charts. Not just for fun, although it was in fact highly entertaining to me (as in "Oh! I seem to have forgotten to have any tea" "Oh! it's bedtime already"). I did actually need to work some plans out which were getting a bit too complex to hold in my head without documentation.
<reminisce>
I remember as a child playing with flow charts. My parents had several of the Consumers' Association "how to..." books, like "What to do when someone dies" and one about adoption, and they had charts for the various circumstances you might encounter, and I remember entertaining myself with those. I would just flip through the book to find an interesting one and then try out all the different answers. You had to pretend you were 18 (as opposed to 7 or 8) or all the adoption ones just stopped at the first question. And a bit later on I used to draw my own ones. ("Anyone else up? yes/no. if no, go back to bed.") I bet those still exist somewhere.
</reminisce>
Yeah, flow charts are cool.
Anyway, quite impressed with the software so far. It's certainly way more usable than Visio, which I had a free trial of a couple of years ago and didn't buy. It's shareware, $69, which seems quite reasonable compared to the cheapoid alternatives. Anyone wanna suggest another one to try before I go for it?
(Is that the same one as you've got,
barakta?)I've been drawing flow charts. Not just for fun, although it was in fact highly entertaining to me (as in "Oh! I seem to have forgotten to have any tea" "Oh! it's bedtime already"). I did actually need to work some plans out which were getting a bit too complex to hold in my head without documentation.
<reminisce>
I remember as a child playing with flow charts. My parents had several of the Consumers' Association "how to..." books, like "What to do when someone dies" and one about adoption, and they had charts for the various circumstances you might encounter, and I remember entertaining myself with those. I would just flip through the book to find an interesting one and then try out all the different answers. You had to pretend you were 18 (as opposed to 7 or 8) or all the adoption ones just stopped at the first question. And a bit later on I used to draw my own ones. ("Anyone else up? yes/no. if no, go back to bed.") I bet those still exist somewhere.
</reminisce>
Yeah, flow charts are cool.
Anyway, quite impressed with the software so far. It's certainly way more usable than Visio, which I had a free trial of a couple of years ago and didn't buy. It's shareware, $69, which seems quite reasonable compared to the cheapoid alternatives. Anyone wanna suggest another one to try before I go for it?
