Quick Start Guide

Get started using Webspiration™ to tap creativity, organize ideas and solve problems. The following quick start will show you how in less than 20 steps.

Brainstorm and capture ideas

Use symbols and links to visually represent concepts and connections in Diagram View.

1. Click Diagram on the Starter screen to open a new diagram.
2. Enter a title for your document. The title becomes the central topic or main idea for your diagram.
3. To add a new idea quickly, click on the workspace and begin typing. A new symbol to hold your text is automatically created.
4. To capture additional ideas, you can:
   • Drag symbols from the Symbol Palette.
   • Use RapidFire®  to create a series of ideas that are connected.
   • Add new linked symbols with Create .

5. Organize and show the connections between your ideas:
   • Simply drag symbols to visually rearrange them.
   • To connect related concepts, select the symbol where you want a link to begin, click Link , and then select the symbol where you want the link to end.

6. Expand your ideas and begin writing with notes. To add a note to your diagram, click a symbol on the workspace, then click Note and begin typing.

Organize your work

Ensure your project achieves its intended purpose in the integrated Outline View.

7. Click Outline to switch to Outline View.
8. Further develop your ideas by adding new topics and subtopics with Topic and Subtopic .
9. Organize and rearrange ideas easily by dragging topics and subtopics.
10. Change the hierarchy of one or more of your ideas with one command:
    • To promote a set of subtopics, select the topic that contains the subtopics and choose Promote on the Outline menu. All subtopics will move to the left one level, raising them in the outline hierarchy.
    • To demote a set of topics, select the topic immediately above the set of topics you want to move and choose Demote on the Outline menu. The topics move to the right one level, making them subtopics of the selected topic.

11. Expand and refine your writing in the Notes area below topics. To add a new note to a topic (or subtopic), select the topic and press Enter (Windows) or Return (Macintosh), or click Note .
12. If you discover that a topic or note contains two ideas, you can split it into two separate topics. To split a topic or notes text, click where you want to split the text, and choose Split Topic on the Outline menu.

Collaborate online, anytime and anywhere

Invite anyone with an email address to collaborate with you.

13. To invite users, click Invite , enter their email addresses and select their roles as viewers or collaborators. If the person you invite doesn’t already have an account, the email they receive will guide them through the process of how to create one.
14. Use built-in Chat to communicate online when working together, and the Email Document Users… option under the Sharing menu to send email messages to the whole team.
15. You can also publish your document to the Internet, and embed it in a web page, blog or wiki:
    • To publish your document, click the Publish to a Web Page… option on the Sharing menu. You can choose to copy or email the associated URL to yourself.
    • To embed in a web page, blog or wiki, click the Copy Embedding Code link at the bottom of your published document.

We hope this Quick Start has been helpful in showing you how to get started using Webspiration quickly and easily. For more detailed information on how to use Webspiration’s diagramming, outlining and collaboration tools, please visit Help.