Be Creative. Be Productive. Be Knowledgeable.
New to Inspiration 11
- Themes – Apply effective and visually appealing colour coding to your maps and diagrams with one click. As well as easing visual stress, applying a coloured theme to your diagram is incredibly effective for organising information, engaging visual thinkers, and helping with memory retention. This also helps stop procrastination and ensures any added visual cues are beneficial to thinking and learning.
- Symbols – Symbols and images within Inspiration allow users to quickly add visual cues to their diagrams which helps with comprehension and retention. While some old favourites remain, the majority of the symbols library has been updated to provide more updated and engaging graphics.
- Visual updates – The new starter screen has been updated and includes a recent files list for users to easily jump back into projects. Also, the Diagram View default settings have been modernised to better engage users.
- Exam mode – Switch off the built-in spell checker and word guide, perfect for when exam regulations require this.
Inspiration 11 is a simple but powerful visual thinking tool for creating mind maps, concept maps, graphic organisers, outlines and presentations with ease!
Inspiration makes it easy to quickly capture your ideas and visually organise them to communicate concepts and strengthen understanding. Transfer your visual diagram to a written outline in just one-click, perfect for structuring writing plans for papers and reports.
Then effortlessly transfer your diagrams and outlines to Word, Google Docs, PowerPoint, OneNote, PDF, HTML or as a graphics file.
Inspiration 11 encourages strong critical thinking skills, supports the writing process, and helps you build conceptual understanding to map out your knowledge.
Key Features
- Brainstorm quickly with the RapidFire® tool.
- Use Inspiration’s range of images and symbols, or import your own to represent information and trigger memory.
- Show relationships between ideas with linking phrases.
- Add notes to symbols to expand on ideas.
- Add references and hyperlinks using the Citation tool. Inspiration will then create an alphabetically organised Bibliography section at the end of your outline.
- Organise ideas effortlessly using the Arrange tool to create various tree diagrams and webs.
- Apply theming to colour code, highlight key concepts and group information.
- Use the Checklist feature to plan work and tick off tasks.
- Access 150 templates: thinking skills, education and workplace related
- Transform diagrams and mind maps to written outlines with one click. Export effortlessly to Microsoft Word, Google Docs, PowerPoint, OneNote, PDF or as a graphics file.
Designed To Be Used By Everyone
Inspiration 11 is designed to be used by everyone, but is particularly beneficial for users who:
- Have difficulty with short-term memory, retaining and processing information.
- Get distracted when there is too much text to deal with.
- Find it challenging to express ideas in writing.
- Struggle with the structure and layout of essays.
- Often have to take extended recovery breaks from working to alleviate symptoms (e.g. mental health difficulties).
- Have difficulties organising ideas and remaining focused long enough to get ideas written down (e.g. Autistic Spectrum Disorder or mental health difficulties).
- Find it hard to develop and deliver presentations.
Visualize & Develop Ideas, Understand & Retain Concepts
Create mind maps, concept maps, webs, idea maps, graphic organizers, process flows and other diagrams for thinking, organizing and writing. Use these proven visual thinking and learning techniques to brainstorm ideas, explore and explain relationships, and integrate new knowledge with what you already know. Inspiration encourages deeper critical thinking, improving creativity, comprehension and retention.
Plan & Organize Written Work
Effectively organize and structure your ideas for projects using Inspiration’s Outline View. Keep track of research information, create essay outlines and develop a logical flow for written and oral communication.
Outlining allows you to quickly develop hierarchical ideas and add detail, ensuring you write with purpose. Outline View synchronizes with your visual view, so you can move seamlessly between visual and written expressions of your thinking to expand and refine ideas and produce quality work.
- Transform diagrams and mind maps to outlines with one click.
- Continue the writing process by adding topics, subtopics and notes text. Diagram View and Map View update automatically.
- Organize ideas and information with power outlining tools.
- Keep visual connections intact with the option to see associated symbols and linking phrases from Diagram View in Outline View.
- Meet word and page count requirements with the Word Count tool.
Improve Communication & Build Presentations
Improve communication and share what you’ve learned with Inspiration’s Presentation Manager. Use the content you’ve developed in Diagram, Map and Outline Views and expand your work into more compelling presentations and final projects. Inspiration provides all the tools to create organized, polished, formal presentations that clearly convey your knowledge. Simply present in Inspiration 10, or export to PowerPoint or PDF.
Sharing Your Work & Productivity
- Transfer your work to Microsoft Word and PowerPoint to streamline and support project completion.
- Use the Copy to Clipboard feature to export your diagrams and outlines to Google Docs, OneNote and other apps.
- Style headings will apply to Inspiration 10 outlines when they are transferred to Microsoft Word or copied to clipboard.
- Save documents as PDFs.
- Print your diagrams, maps, outlines and presentation.
- Use the Site Skeleton® export to transform diagrams into HTML web sites.
- Export diagrams and mind maps as .jpg, .gif, .png, .bmp or .wmf files to insert in other documents.
Share Files with Inspiration Maps for iOS
Import & export documents between Inspiration 10 and Inspiration Maps.
Inspiration Maps is a visual thinking and learning app for iPads and iPhones. Build beautiful diagrams, graphic organizers and outlines with ease! Getting organized has never been this simple.
Helping Users Overcome Barriers to Study and Work
Inspiration 10 is designed to be used by everyone, but is particularly beneficial for users who:
- Have difficulty with short term memory, retaining and processing information.
- Get distracted when there is too much text to deal with.
- Find it challenging to express ideas in writing.
- Struggle with the structure and layout of essays.
- Often have to take extended recovery breaks from working to alleviate symptoms (e.g. mental health difficulties).
- Have difficulties organizing ideas and remaining focused long enough to get ideas written down (e.g. Autistic Spectrum Disorder or mental health difficulties).
- Find it hard to develop and deliver presentations.
