Boxes And Arrows

iPad / Productivité

Boxes And Arrows (B'nA) provides the most simplistic usage to create graphs of boxes and arrows.

Ideal whenever you need to track or develop ideas or structure your thoughts. A tool that allows you to work in the flow because it provides the flexibility of graphs and a gesture-centric lightweight usage. With B'nA you can concentrate on your thoughts, not on the tool.

You may use it like a classical mind mapping app or go beyond:
- You can structure your graphs by using the background layer thus forming diagrams.
- You can keep a lot of information in a well-arranged way by using the subgraph feature.
- You can use the 'export graph to text'-, 'copy text into a map'- or 'snapshot'-features to incorporate it into your work.

Basic Gestures
- to add a box: tap
- to edit the text of a box: double tap
- to move a box: drag it.
- to add an arrow between two boxes: tap first box, than tap second box. (The tap of the first box is indicated by a thicker box-frame, it times out.)
- to delete an arrow, slash it out: one finger stroke from bottom left to top right crossing the arrow. (A red line will indicate your gesture.)
- to delete a box, slash it out: one finger stroke from bottom left to top right crossing the box. (A red line will indicate your gesture.)
- to select boxes: draw a line around them (A blue line will indicate your gesture)
- to jump inside a box: tap, wait, double tap.
- to drag one box inside another: drag it over another box and hold

Typical usages
- take and organise notes
- keep an personal KANBAN
- capture and rework an argumentation during discussions
- sketch business-charts
- prepare workshops and capture results
- visualise your own thoughts
- keep a simple and flexible to-do list
- build a storyline
- sketch an org-chart
- create cause-and-effect graphs
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Quoi de neuf dans la dernière version ?

Maintenance Release
- The App is now iOS 13+ compatible. Minimum iOS 12.0 is required.