Personal and Business Use

 
 

 

The essential tool to visualize, think, organize and learn

 

Inspiration for the Desktop
Inspiration for Handhelds

 


Capture, organize and present ideas with Inspiration®.

 

Whether you're brainstorming, project planning, process mapping or simply taking notes, use Inspiration on Windows®, Macintosh® or handhelds to improve productivity.
 

Inspiration is a powerful, easy-to-use tool that allows professionals to visually organize and communicate complex topics. Visual diagrams clarify patterns, interrelationships and interdependencies. They also stimulate creative thinking.
  

 

Inspiration makes it fast and easy to organize, create and present:

  • Business plans
  • Process flow documents
  • Organization charts
  • Presentation visuals
  • Project plans
  • Job descriptions
  • Meeting notes
  • Production schedules
  • Idea maps
  • Reports 


Inspiration is available for use on desktop computers and with handhelds. Use Inspiration® for Palm OS® on your handheld to capture your ideas wherever you are-then sync to Inspiration on the desktop to enhance and extend your projects.


Inspiration for the Desktop:

The essential tool to visualize, think, organize and learn

  • Project planning
  • Brainstorming
  • Process mapping
  • Create written reports and presentations
  • Organize concepts and information
  • Analyze, compare and present information

Works with Windows and Macintosh computers.

Boost your productivity with Inspiration, the professional tool for project planning, brainstorming, streamlining processes, and creating written reports and presentations.

 
Inspiration works on Windows and Macintosh computers. Its integrated Diagram and Outline Views work together to help you organize concepts and information from your desktop or laptop. Using highly effective graphic organizers, Inspiration gives you a mental model to assist with analysis, comparison, classification and evaluation of information.

 

Visualize your thoughts with diagrams
See your ideas more creatively and present them with more clarity. Use Inspiration's Diagram View to facilitate brainstorming, clarify ideas, collect and communicate information, analyze problems and resolve both simple and complex issues. In Diagram View you can:

  • Create a map of your thoughts using symbols to represent your ideas
  • Capture ideas quickly with RapidFire®
  • Show relationships between ideas with the Link tool
  • Explain relationships between ideas with text links
  • Differentiate ideas with colors, shapes, patterns, shadows, fonts and styles
  • Start writing with visually integrated notes
  • Explore multiple main ideas simultaneously

Diagram to outline with one click
With one click, your Inspiration diagram transforms into a traditional written outline. Here you can modify and rearrange concepts and words to produce clearly communicated reports, letters, memos and written presentations. In Outline View you can:

  • Record new thoughts
  • Plan projects and track ideas using the Checklist feature
  • Develop topics into a written report using notes text
  • Add topics at different levels with single commands
  • Hide and show levels of detail

Rearrange or format thoughts quickly
Once you've got your ideas recorded, simply drag symbols and links to change relationships and order. With the Arrange tool you choose from 11 formats and let Inspiration perfectly line up and display your information. In Outline View, simply drag and drop any topic to a new position—subtopics move along automatically.

 

Toolbars make using Inspiration intuitive!  

Diagram Toolbar

Outline Toolbar

Formatting Toolbar

 
Transfer to a word processor with one click

Inspiration's one-click transfer instantly moves your work into a word processing program. After working in Inspiration to brainstorm, organize and outline, you can use Microsoft® Word® or AppleWorks® to further expand your written projects.
 

Connect directly to the Internet
Inspiration lets you set up live hyperlinks to instantly access resources from the Internet. Just select a symbol or outline topic, click Hyperlink on the tool bar, add web address and Inspiration automatically creates a hyperlink. Hyperlink also helps you gather and present information from multiple types of documents.
 

Add graphics to convey meaning and add interest
Choose from the over 1200 symbols included with Inspiration or insert a graphic from any source using drag and drop or copy and paste functions. You can drag and drop JPEG and GIF images into Inspiration diagrams directly from the web.
 

Plan a web site
Build the structure of a new web site in Inspiration, then select the Site Skeleton®. Each symbol becomes a separate web page, complete with appropriate hyperlinks. Inspiration even creates a site map for you.


To buy now, contact:

In the U.S.: mindServegroup
Outside the U.S.: Strategic Transitions, Inc.
  


Inspiration for Handhelds:
 

Handheld Power to develop ideas and organize thinking

  • Capture ideas wherever you are
  • Structure and share ideas
  • Taking notes
  • Brainstorming
  • Project planning

Works with Palm OS®.

 

Capture, structure and share ideas with Inspiration for Palm OS. Whether you're brainstorming, project planning or simply taking notes, use Inspiration to improve productivity in any setting. An intuitive interface offers powerful, easy-to-use tools that allow professionals to visually organize complex topics.

 

 
Visualize thoughts in the diagramming environment
Use Inspiration for Palm to brainstorm and clarify ideas, collect and communicate information and analyze new approaches to problems. Visual representations of relationships, patterns and themes help crystallize thoughts and resolve complex issues.

  • Use the stylus to naturally sketch diagrams and map out information
  • Tap the unique RapidFire® tool to quickly capture ideas
  • Rearrange thoughts by intuitively dragging symbols—links remain connected
  • Format symbols with a library of colors and shapes
  • Add up to 15 pages of notes to each idea
  • Use zoom controls to see details or grasp the big picture
  • Transform a diagram into a traditional outline to further organize and write

Get organized in the integrated outlining environment
With one click, visual ideas are instantly transformed into a traditional outline format. In the integrated outlining environment, you efficiently refine ideas, develop organized plans, structure research and create clear and concise reports.

  • Easily record new thoughts
  • Add topics at different levels with single commands
  • Reorganize topics by dragging
  • Hide and show levels of detail
  • Add notes to further develop writing
  • Choose from a variety of prefix labels

 
Sync, transfer or print to finalize projects
Inspiration for Palm OS provides a multitude of ways to communicate information to colleagues. Generate final output directly from your handheld, or work in conjunction with your desktop PC.

  • Transfer work to a favorite word processor
  • Sync with Inspiration on the desktop
  • Print projects via infrared, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth or USB
  • Beam to share documents with another handheld

 

To buy now, contact:
In the U.S.: mindServegroup
Outside the U.S.: Strategic Transitions, Inc.