Absolutely FANTASTIC Online Tool (Costs Nothing)

by Rob Cornish | 60 comments

I think you’ll LOVE this.

Click PLAY on this short video to see:

Let me know what you think by posting a comment below please. Cheers, Rob. 🙂

60 Comments

Lee Wood on January 12, 2017 at 12:30 pm

Rob

Great tool. Just about to publish my first two novels in February.

Wished I’d known about this before.

I’ll certainly be using it for the outline of my 3rd book.

Lee
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- Rob on January 12, 2017 at 2:20 pm
  
  Well done one the completion of your novels and thanks for your comment Lee 🙂
Tony Hine on January 12, 2017 at 12:32 pm

Have you seem Draw IO?

https://www.draw.io/
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- Rob on January 12, 2017 at 2:18 pm
  
  Nope so thanks for posting the link Tony.
Anthony on January 12, 2017 at 12:36 pm

Nice Tool. thanks for sharing.
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- Rob on January 12, 2017 at 2:18 pm
  
  My pleasure, thanks for your comment 🙂
Leslie Dahl on January 12, 2017 at 12:44 pm

Looks useful. Thanks, Rob.
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- Rob on January 12, 2017 at 2:18 pm
  
  It’s a pleasure Leslie, hope it comes in handy for you.
Stuart Turnbull on January 12, 2017 at 12:47 pm

Thanks for the heads up on this free tool, Rob – it will enable me to include flow charts in my ebooks and courses – very useful!

Stuart
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- Rob on January 12, 2017 at 2:17 pm
  
  Yes, it’s great for that Stuart. Appreciate your comment 🙂
Joe on January 12, 2017 at 12:47 pm

A great tool and two free lessons in one! Thanks Rob
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- Rob on January 12, 2017 at 2:17 pm
  
  Thanks Joe, appreciated 🙂
Andrew Tomkinson on January 12, 2017 at 12:54 pm

Rob, after watching the video I went to the web site, Lucidchart is very comprehensive and integrates with all sorts of applications. AWS (Amazon Web Services) and UML (Unified Modeling Language) are two that I had a look at. Definitely a replacement for Microsoft Visio if people use that.
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- Rob on January 12, 2017 at 2:17 pm
  
  Yep, it’s excellent Andrew. Glad you like it!
Rob on January 12, 2017 at 1:01 pm

Thanks Rob, for this really useful info. Funnily enough I was walking my dogs in a very rainy Devon earlier thinking that I need to find a tool online that would allow me to do exactly what this does, so the timing could not have been better.
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- Rob on January 12, 2017 at 2:16 pm
  
  Perfect timing then – hope you didn’t get too wet! Thanks for your comment 🙂
Ronald Palmer on January 12, 2017 at 1:12 pm

Thank you, Rob, as always great useful information
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- Rob on January 12, 2017 at 2:15 pm
  
  My pleasure Ronald, glad it was useful to you.
Nick East on January 12, 2017 at 1:26 pm

Really good tool
And it looks simple to use !
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- Rob on January 12, 2017 at 2:15 pm
  
  It certainty is Nick, thanks for your comment 🙂
Allan on January 12, 2017 at 3:50 pm

Looks a great tool Rob.Many thanks for letting us know about it.
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- Rob on January 12, 2017 at 5:23 pm
  
  My pleasure Allan, always like to share tools that I find valuable myself. Appreciate you taking the time to comment 🙂
Juan Morris on January 12, 2017 at 4:35 pm

will look more indepth. could be a replacement for my staruml
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- Rob on January 12, 2017 at 5:22 pm
  
  Cool, take a look and see what you think. Good to hear from you here on the blog Juan.
Alicia Carr on January 12, 2017 at 4:40 pm

Thanks, Rob, I got the free account. It will help getting better organized.
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- Rob on January 12, 2017 at 5:22 pm
  
  Great stuff, I hope you enjoy it Alicia and appreciate the comment 🙂
Jack Miller on January 12, 2017 at 4:54 pm

Hi Rob, Great tutorial and tool. Will give it a go. I have been using a Free mind mapping software for a couple of years now called Freemind.

http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
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- Rob on January 12, 2017 at 5:22 pm
  
  Yes that’s a good one too Jack. Thanks for sharing and commenting!
Bob on January 12, 2017 at 5:24 pm

Hi Rob,
this takes the “imagination ” out of design as you can see it clearly in two dimensions. It makes any thing clear to do.
Very good work on your part for finding this for us. I will definitely use this.
Best
Bob
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Melanie on January 12, 2017 at 5:41 pm

Thank you so much for once again sharing such great tips and tools with your audience. You’re the best, Rob!
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- Rob on January 12, 2017 at 7:34 pm
  
  Thank you for your kind words Melanie, you’re very welcome and thanks for your comment 🙂
David on January 12, 2017 at 7:01 pm

Such a great brainstorming tool, releasing the burden of retention. Many thanks.
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- Rob on January 12, 2017 at 7:35 pm
  
  I like the way you’ve put that David – glad you like it 🙂
Kjell on January 12, 2017 at 7:58 pm

Thanks for sharing Rob, really a great tool, I would try it out myself 🙂
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- Rob on January 13, 2017 at 7:29 am
  
  Do that Kjell, it’s quite goo fun to use! Thanks for posting your comment.
Mike on January 12, 2017 at 9:50 pm

Hi Rob,
Nice tip from you and a cool video tutorial – and free. Thanks.
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Mal on January 13, 2017 at 3:53 am

Hi Rob,
just another option I found recently which is very similar.

This is a software download.

http://pencil.evolus.vn/

I have used this to create some flowcharts for some eBooks.

Does a pretty good job.

Free or Donation.

cheers, Mal.
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- Rob on January 13, 2017 at 7:28 am
  
  Thanks Mal, always nice to have choices. Thanks for sharing!
Andrew Baber on January 13, 2017 at 10:55 am

Great share Rob, really useful as you say, wish i’d had it years ago when I was making many process maps for electronic tools. I managed with Paint Shop Pro, but this is really easy
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- Rob on January 13, 2017 at 12:47 pm
  
  I’m sure it would have been great for that. Good to hear from you here on the blog Andrew 🙂
Tony Crofts on January 13, 2017 at 11:37 am

Thanks for this Rob

I’ll be using it for storyboarding videos and perhaps for book planning.
Hopefully it will paste into Scrivener to make things easier.
Looks to be much easier to use than Visio, as Andrew said.

Cheers

Tony
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- Rob on January 13, 2017 at 12:46 pm
  
  Thanks for your thoughts Tony and glad you found this useful 🙂
Simon Oliver on January 13, 2017 at 3:15 pm

Great tool Rob. I shall definitely be using it. Thanks.
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- Rob on January 13, 2017 at 3:59 pm
  
  Fabulous Simon, hope you get a lot out of it and thank you for commenting 🙂
Brendan C on January 13, 2017 at 5:43 pm

Great free online tool.will test it out.

I use other free Mind map called Mindomo at first and found it easy to create for online tutorial even better I can use desktop app if pay upgrade $29 because I uses premium now.

Tips: inform them you are doing for educational purposes so get good discount prices.

Thanks for sharing.
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- Rob on January 14, 2017 at 6:15 pm
  
  Thanks Brendan, appreciate you mentioning Mindomo. Always good to have options and discover new tools.
Peter Castle on January 13, 2017 at 9:15 pm

Hey Rob,
Thanks for the heads up…Love it…
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- Rob on January 14, 2017 at 6:14 pm
  
  My pleasure and thanks for saying so Peter.
Philip Lord on January 14, 2017 at 12:28 am

Excellent Rob Thank you for your Brilliant presentation Looks like a very useful tool for Mind Mapping flow charts and presentations
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- Rob on January 14, 2017 at 6:14 pm
  
  Absolutely! Good to hear your views Philip, thank you 🙂
Marie on January 14, 2017 at 3:10 am

Hey Rob that is a very simple tool, thank you. And also thank you for all the obvious and more subtle training you give in your videos at the same time. You really lead the way.

I was thinking that after you download your flow chart you could delete it and be able to make more charts utilizing your 3 freebies over and over again. Long term it would be better to subscribe but initially that could be a good way to go.

Cheer, Marie
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- Rob on January 14, 2017 at 6:13 pm
  
  Glad you noticed Marie, you’re the first to comment on that! Yes, you can do a lot with the free account. I will probably upgrade as I like to pay for things I find really valuable but either way it’s a great tool in my book.
Rob McLennan on January 14, 2017 at 3:50 am

Sure looks like a tool I would have loved to have had years ago when I was doing that kind of ops management work manually on gridded paper. I shall have a go at the sofware version of that 3ft wide roll of paper.

Thanks Rob.
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- Rob on January 14, 2017 at 6:12 pm
  
  Haha! Thanks for the comment Rob 🙂
Joseph W Stasaitis on January 14, 2017 at 8:08 pm

Great info! Thanks Rob.
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- Rob on January 16, 2017 at 9:29 am
  
  No worries Joseph, thanks for commenting.
Kobus and Henriette on January 15, 2017 at 12:37 pm

Thanks so much Rob! We will certainly make use of this very useful tool!
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- Rob on January 16, 2017 at 9:28 am
  
  That’s great Kobus, I hope you get a good boost from using it! Appreciate your comment 🙂
Michael Gorman on March 29, 2020 at 9:27 am

Being able to visualise processes, and present these to people can make a huge difference, this is still a good option.
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- Rob Cornish on March 29, 2020 at 11:49 am
  
  Absolutely Michael, a picture is worth a thousand words! Thanks for sharing your thoughts 🙂