I’ve been working on instructions for citing various resources and wanted an online flowchart generator – I found Gliffy.com. The free demo version lets you create up to five different charts at a time but allows multiple revisions, so I’ve just created a flowchart, saved as a jpg, revised it into a completely different flowchart, rinse and repeat several times and am still on my first free flowchart.

It’s startlingly easy to use – has way more features than I needed or understood but I found it easy to find the ones I did want. It’s all click-and-drag, and you can attach arrows to points on each box so everything moves in relationship to everything else dynamically.

For an example of what I’ve been doing with it, click ‘read more’…