Vithanco
Structured Visual Thinking
Only for Mac
Free · In-App Purchases
Analysis made easy with Vithanco! Capture, analyse and plan all relevant aspects of any project, system, improvement, etc.
• Using visuals helps you to keep the (literal) overview. See the whole at once, zoom into parts, and hide the less relevant elements (through "clusters").
• Auto-layout keeps you focusing on the task, not on the layout. It allows you to focus on the job and makes you more productive. A one-minute change to the content doesn't mean 10 minutes of reformatting.
• Visual grammars make it easy to follow structured methods by providing guidance. The resulting diagram conforms to the chosen method. However, diverge from a rigid method if you want to.
• Use resulting visuals to help you communicate with all relevant stakeholders. What do they say? "A picture says more than 1000 words."
Use Vithanco to create diagrams that concisely present your thinking. Use the predefined domains to choose the right diagram type. In addition, Vithanco provides out-to-the-box support for the following:
• Theory of Constraints Thinking Processes (like Current Realty Tree/CRT, Evaporating Cloud, etc.) provides a complete methodology for improvement, from identifying the root issue to planning the solution.
• Concept Maps help capture existing terminology and decrease confusion. Therefore, they are perfect as a starting point for any project.
• IBIS diagrams capture dialogues/discussions or do deep analysis in groups or alone.
• Mind Maps can capture anything and be used for planning.
• Benefit Breakdown Structure is a business analysis technique that analyses "backwards" from the benefit towards the enablers, including IT enablers and hence keeps the Business Case realistic.
• Gojko Adzic's Impact Mapping is a well-known approach to generate the next features for your product/project.
• Causal Loop Diagrams (System Thinking) describe the dynamics of a system. They are a powerful analysis tool for understanding and explaining complex behaviours.
• Decision Trees allow us to write down how to reach a decision. Especially useful for designing decision points in a process.
And more will come.
Vithanco has, amongst others, the following features:
* Ensuring correct structure of diagrams
* Autolayout - no need to waste your time on moving boxes
* Change relationships with easy drag and drop
* Keyboard controls
* Darkmode supported (requires macOS 10.14 Mojave)
* Export to PDF, JPG, SVG and PNG
* Import Compendium, Flying Logic or CMapTools files
* Cluster parts of the diagram (allows un-/folding of clusters)
* Design your node styles to adjust the Diagram
* Design your graphical language ("Domain")
* Zoom in and out
and much more.
more • Nodebuttons are now entirely within Node, avoiding conflict with edge ending (easier to select the right one)
• Fixed some nuisances regarding Causal Loop Diagrams.
• Logo updated
• Toolbar updated
• SVG export improved
• Some icons updated
• OPML import and Export (export only for acyclic graphs)
1.9.15 09/08/2023
• Nodebuttons are now entirely over Node itself to not conflict with edge ending (easier to select the right one)
• Fixed some nuisances regarding Causal Loop Diagrams.
• Logo updated
• Toolbar updated
• SVG export improved
• Some icons updated
• OPML import and Export (export only for acyclic graphs)
1.9.13 01/08/2023
Maintenance Release
1.9.12 28/03/2023
V1.9.11
• Fixed an UI bug from V1.9.10
• Added new "unsure" Node Types for Concept Maps. You can add them to the model via the "Domain" menu.
• Export HTML now avoids whitespaces in filenames. Makes it easier to use on some file servers.
V1.9.0-1.9.10
• Moved the buttons outside of the node, increases visibility of node text when hoovering over
• Navigation with buttons works again
• fixed that long cluster labels were too far left
• better layout of in-place editor, now providing more space & with same font as box
• the view no longer moves to center clicked node if possible
• add graph name, author, version to diagram via settings -> "document", will be added to exported documents as well
• Improved Node Type Editor, now allowing coloured text and a new node look (icon & text without a line around the node)
• Selection of predecessors / successors moved to menu from toolbar.
• Can now repeatedly select predecessors / successors.
• Improved selecting nodes, especially when zoomed.
• New Focus on Concept button allows highlighting a concept with adjacent concepts. Useful for big concept maps.
• Added the Goal Tree, a less often used diagram from the Theory of Constraint family.
• Improved startup dialog for a new document.
• A new settings dialog "Unflatten" - allowing to distribute "children" nodes in 2 dimensions.
• Fixed several bugs
1.9.11 09/06/2022
V1.9.10
• Moved the buttons outside of the node, increases visibility of node text when hoovering over
• Navigation with buttons works again
• fixed that long cluster labels were too far left
• better layout of in-place editor, now providing more space & with same font as box
• the view no longer moves to center clicked node if possible
• add graph name, author, version to diagram via settings -> "document", will be added to exported documents as well
V1.9.0-1.9.9
• Improved Node Type Editor, now allowing coloured text and a new node look (icon & text without a line around the node)
• Selection of predecessors / successors moved to menu from toolbar.
• Can now repeatedly select predecessors / successors.
• Improved selecting nodes, especially when zoomed.
• New Focus on Concept button allows highlighting a concept with adjacent concepts. Useful for big concept maps.
• Added the Goal Tree, a less often used diagram from the Theory of Constraint family.
• Improved startup dialog for a new document.
• A new settings dialog "Unflatten" - allowing to distribute "children" nodes in 2 dimensions.
• Fixed several bugs
1.9.10 04/06/2022
V1.9.9
Improved Node Type Editor, now allowing coloured text and a new node look (icon & text without a line around the node)
V1.9.0-1.9.8
• Selection of predecessors / successors moved to menu from toolbar.
• Can now repeatedly select predecessors / successors.
• Improved selecting nodes, especially when zoomed.
• New Focus on Concept button allows highlighting a concept with adjacent concepts. Useful for big concept maps.
• Added the Goal Tree, a less often used diagram from the Theory of Constraint family.
• Improved startup dialog for a new document.
• A new settings dialog "Unflatten" - allowing to distribute "children" nodes in 2 dimensions.
• Fixed several bugs
1.9.9 28/05/2022
V1.9.8
• Fixed an issue where a selection window wasn't always shown.
V1.9.0-1.9.7
• Selection of predecessors / successors moved to menu from toolbar.
• Can now repeatedly select predecessors / successors.
• Fixed a bug that made the app crash for bigger graphs.
• Improved selecting nodes, especially when zoomed.
• New Focus on Concept button allows highlighting a concept with adjacent concepts. Useful for big concept maps.
• Added the Goal Tree, a less often used diagram from the Theory of Constraint family.
• Improved startup dialog for a new document.
• A new settings dialog "Unflatten" - allowing to distribute "children" nodes in 2 dimensions.
1.9.8 26/05/2022
V1.9.7
• Selection of predecessors / successors moved to menu from toolbar
• Can now repeatedly select predecessors / successors
V1.9.0-1.9.6
• Fixed a bug that made the app crash for bigger graphs.
• Improved selecting nodes, especially when zoomed.
• New Focus on Concept button allows highlighting a concept with adjacent concepts. Useful for big concept maps.
• Added the Goal Tree, a less often used diagram from the Theory of Constraint family.
• Improved startup dialog for a new document.
• A new settings dialog "Unflatten" - allowing to distribute "children" nodes in 2 dimensions.
1.9.7 23/05/2022
V1.9.5-1.9.6
Keep on going until the problem is fixed for everyone.
V1.9.0-1.9.4
Fixed a bug that made the app crash for bigger graphs.
Improved selecting nodes, especially when zoomed.
New Focus on Concept button allows highlighting a concept with adjacent concepts. Useful for big concept maps.
Added the Goal Tree, a less often used diagram from the Theory of Constraint family.
Improved startup dialog for a new document.
A new settings dialog "Unflatten".
1.9.6 18/05/2022
1.9.5
Fixed another bug that made the app crash for bigger graphs.
1.9.0-1.9.4
Fixed a bug that made the app crash for bigger graphs.
Improved selecting nodes, especially when zoomed.
New Focus on Concept button allows highlighting a concept with adjacent concepts. Useful for big concept maps.
Added the Goal Tree, a less often used diagram from the Theory of Constraint family.
Improved startup dialog for a new document.
A new settings dialog "Unflatten".
1.9.5 17/05/2022
1.9.4
Fixed a bug that made the app crash for bigger graphs.
1.9.0-1.9.3
Improved selecting nodes, especially when zoomed.
New Focus on Concept button allows highlighting a concept with adjacent concepts. Useful for big concept maps.
Added the Goal Tree, a less often used diagram from the Theory of Constraint family.
Improved startup dialog for a new document.
A new settings dialog "Unflatten".
1.9.4 15/05/2022
1.9.3
Improved selecting nodes, especially when zoomed.
New Focus on Concept button allows highlighting a concept with adjacent concepts. Useful for big concept maps.
1.9.0-1.92
Added the Goal Tree, a less often used diagram from the Theory of Constraint family.
Improved startup dialog for a new document.
A new settings dialog "Unflatten".
1.9.3 26/04/2022
Added the Goal Tree, a less often used diagram from the Theory of Constraint family. Clearly, some bug fixing is part of this as well.
1.9.2 27/03/2022
Fixed a rare bug that prevented some files from opening.
1.9.1 26/03/2022
Two slightly bigger improvements
• Startup dialog for a new document improved & problems fixed
• A new settings dialog "Unflatten". Unflatten distributes siblings that would otherwise be just next to each other in the same row/column. Now they can be spread out into several rows/columns.
1.9.0 21/02/2022
Improved Flying Logic Importer.
1.8.3 26/04/2021
Bugfixes
1.8.2 17/03/2021
Small Things:
• App is again available for macOS 10.15
• SVG will now produce clickable nodes if the node has an URL associated with it.
• Rights to access files seemed to have a bug that some users experienced.
1.8.1 01/03/2021
• Optimised for Apple Silicon.
• Bugfixes
• Changed some mouse interaction back to previous state.
1.8.0 24/01/2021
This version introduces Templates. Any of your documents can become a template. Once saved as a template you can load use it as a starting point for a new diagram. A template will save all the changes you made to the domains and the current set of nodes. The changed domain and the nodes will be available in the new file after loading the template.
Choose Save and Load Templates from File Menu.
1.7.0 20/04/2020
Minor bug-fixes and UI improvements.
The previous release had major changes:
• SVG export. SVG has the advantage that you can scale it.
• Show all nodes types in new node dialog when pressed option key even when dialog is already open
• Use + and - for creation successors and predecessors
• A new green frame highlights the current node for keyboard controls. This node will be used for +/- commands etc.
• Autosave on change or save, choose formats in "General Settings"
• Node Types got a usability attribute, controls whether nodes can be used without being part of domain model, like annotations or AND/OR junctors
• You can no create a new node with a right click. It is now instead an option click.
And in addition many smaller improvements and bug fixes.
Please let me know what you think, I love to receive your feedback!
1.6.1 23/03/2020
This version contains the following major changes:
• SVG export. SVG has the advantage that you can scale it.
• Show all nodes types in new node dialog when pressed option key even when dialog is already open
• Use + and - for creation successors and predecessors
• A new green frame highlights the current node for keyboard controls. This node will be used for +/- commands etc.
• Autosave on change or save, choose formats in "General Settings"
• Node Types got a usability attribute, controls whether nodes can be used without being part of domain model, like annotations or AND/OR junctors
• You can no create a new node with a right click. It is now instead an option click.
And in addition many smaller improvements and bug fixes.
Please let me know what you think, I love to receive your feedback!
1.5.2 17/03/2020
Release 1.5 is focusing on supporting big diagrams. Please see upcoming Vithanco blog post for all details.
To mention a few improvements:
• Table View, to quickly edit a set of nodes
• Select nodes with NodeStatistics - click on a node type while holding Option key.
• Reports are more flexible now. Create the report you like.
• Select predecessor tree by clicking while holding Shift
• Select successor tree by clicking while holding Shift + Option keys (V1.5.1)
• Newly created Nodes are staying in view, directly editing new node (V1.5.1)
• Focusing on a Cluster doesn't show the cluster itself anymore (V.1.5.1)
... and many other smaller improvements not targeting on big diagrams. Just to mention a few:
• Links in PDF
• Menu improved
• Ability to create a new file with the current Meta Model (in case you made changes)
• GraphType setting, mostly relevant when clusters are folded
• Change Cluster Colors
• Adjust Fonts, use general settings to change base font
• Nodes with Image are better layouted (V1.5.1)
Please let me know your wishes.
1.5.1 18/11/2019
This release is focusing on supporting big diagrams. Please see Vithanco blog post for all details. To mention a few improvements:
• Table View, to quickly edit a set of nodes
• Select nodes with NodeStatistics - click on a node type while holding Option key.
• Reports are more flexible now. Create the report you like.
• Select predecessor Tree by clicking while holding Shift
... and many other smaller improvements. Just to mention a few:
• Links in PDF
• Menu updated
• Create a new file with the current Meta Model
• GraphType setting
• Change Cluster Colors
• Adjust Fonts, use general settings to change base font
Please let me know your wishes.
1.5 10/11/2019
Many improvements found their ways into this version. Amongst them:
* Editing behaviour changed: Text changes (Node, Edge, Cluster) can be done on the canvas. Use [CMD] click or right click to open respective editor.
* Flying Logic, CMapTools import and exports
* Focus View: Select a number of nodes and press Focus View to see a diagram only with these nodes.
* New Node Types, and more in preparation
* Benefit Breakdown Structure domain received a report. The report incorporates focus views for each benefit and a report file in markdown format with annotations, etc. Please let me know which other reports you would like.
* Rendering "Bias": to which side should the canvas align?
* Shift + click: selects predecessor tree
* Export as Graphviz DOT file
And many other changes and improvements.
1.4 16/09/2019
• Nodebuttons are now entirely within Node, avoiding conflict with edge ending (easier to select the right one)
• Fixed some nuisances regarding Causal Loop Diagrams.
• Logo updated
• Toolbar updated
• SVG export improved
• Some icons updated
• OPML import and Export (export only for acyclic graphs)
more Version 1.9.15 09/08/2023
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