Gallery of Templates for Inspiration Software^® Features

Overview
Inspiration is the premier tool for graphic thinking and organizing ideas. Its interface and user controls are simplicity itself. Simple controls allow new users to rapidly rise to a level of competency sufficient for their own use.

This product is designed exclusively for users who’d like to push the limits of their understanding of the special power of Inspiration to show ideas graphically and in outline form.

Over the past several years we’ve created a series of Templates that push to the very edge of the product’s capabilities. We’ve been freely sharing these Templates with customers and, at their suggestion, we’ve collected some of the better ones into one place for release to our customers.

You’ll find a variety of Models & Templates that cover uses in business and higher ed. Many of them are real ‘live’ or ‘battle tested’ (i.e. they’ve been used repeatedly in the boardroom or on projects in a production environment, under ‘live conditions).

Purpose
The Gallery of Templates for Inspiration shows how to use Inspiration to capture, annotate, analyze, and communicate idea maps. The Templates support basic strategies for mapping that would normally be found only in tools costing hundreds or thousands more! Inspiration's ease of use makes it accessible to a much broader range of workers than more complicated tools that require weeks of training.

Regardless of your level of proficiency, you will find the example Models and Templates as invaluable tools to begin your idea mapping. You will quickly notice yourself returning again and again with a greater insight and appreciation for the benefits that idea mapping can provide, such as clarity, efficiency, productivity, and profits.

Finding the right template
58 unique Models and Templates are supported in three Gallery documents (Parts I, II, and III). These Gallery documents present a thumbnail visual of the model and hyperlink navigation to either the Model, Template, or Template Wireframed.

Many of the Models & Templates are shown in a number of different ‘reveal’ views, a total of 231 individual Models and Templates in all. Beyond the thumbnail and hyperlinks, each of the three gallery documents provides a brief description of the model and a series of links to all the files for your review.

Options for you review
There are several approaches for exploring the idea maps. You may want to open all the files sequentially or use the Gallery documents to first preview the Models. Either way you decide to approach them, it will be easy for you to bring the richness of the Models & Templates to the fore, and to your fingertips.

Suggested steps and instructions with Templates
Templates and Templates Wireframed bring you a detailed set of guidelines for usage. Start with any Template and build your diagrams easily and without complication. Use the Wireframe to begin a fully custom model choosing colors and affects.

Detailed examples for all concepts
Examples from a wide range of actual clients make the concepts in the Gallery of Templates come alive! See how the tools and concepts appear in for-profit firms and public sector agencies, and higher education.

Value
Creating a map is not an end in itself, but merely a tool for focused thought on how to work faster, smarter, and better. Use the Models and Templates to spur your thought and ignite your creativity going forward.