Found Footage: Instaviz, graph sketching app for iPhone
I spend a lot of my time with a dry erase marker and whiteboard sketching diagrams for clients. I draw use case diagrams, flow charts, mind maps, you name it. On my Macs, I use the shape tools in Pages to draw my diagrams, but I often wish for a tool that would let me sketch charts on my iPhone.
Instaviz (click opens iTunes), from Pixelglow Software, is exactly what the doctor ordered. You can sketch out a rough shape (circle, rectangle, square, diamond, or triangle) with your finger, and Instaviz "cleans up" your sketch by turning it into a clean, symmetrical shape. Links between shapes are done by just dragging a finger between the shapes, and Instaviz automatically enters a straight or curved line to connect the shapes.
You can choose colors for the different shapes and lines through a color picker, zoom in or out using the familiar iPhone two-finger pinch/reverse-pinch gestures, add or edit labels, and scroll around your diagram. To erase objects, you tap on them and then shake the iPhone "Etch-A-Sketch" style.
The US$9.99 app can export graphs to a MobileMe iDisk or any WebDAV server in DOT/GV or PDF format. Here's a video showing the app in action:
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Source: http://instaviz.com/
I spend a lot of my time with a dry erase marker and whiteboard sketching diagrams for clients. I draw use case diagrams, flow charts, mind...
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Wow! I've actually been wondering why Apple hadn't already done this for the iPhone/touch. I have this feature on my 10-year-old Apple Newton, and it was the greatest tool for drafting sketches during meetings.
December 10 2008 at 1:17 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replycheck this out guys.
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This would work better for an OS X application on your desk? Draw it and it turns into circles, boxes etc... Use OmniGraffle now, good and everything, but it would be a lot faster to simply draw it.
December 10 2008 at 4:03 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyThose graphs could certainly stand to be prettied up a bit.
...but the interface seems pretty straight-forward.
anyone notice that's actually an iPod Touch?
December 09 2008 at 6:19 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyWell, it is officially called the iPhone OS.
December 09 2008 at 7:32 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyLOL I was so confused at the end when the headphones were at the bottom.
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