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Free/easy way to make a flow chart?

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BertieBotts · 11/03/2023 07:40

Can anyone suggest a free and easy way to make a flow chart? I have a couple of ideas for graphics that I want to make but despite googling and trying out some of the things that come up none of them seem to work in the way I want them to!

I don't have any Office etc programs but I'm on a desktop computer. Happy to use graphics software or word processing type software or something web based. Would like to be able to move things around without breaking the whole thing.

I'm sure this must exist! Help me :)

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Cornishmumofone · 11/03/2023 07:59

Try www.visme.co/flowchart-maker/

notsayingmuch · 11/03/2023 08:09

Canva.com might be good for you as well if you are making a presentation.

doadeer · 11/03/2023 08:11

Lucid you can make a free flow chart

wobytide · 11/03/2023 08:12

Libre office Impress is an open source PowerPoint equivalent. Not Visio but if you just need shapes for flow chart should give you an idea

www.libreoffice.org/discover/impress/

Twinedpeaks · 11/03/2023 08:13

Miroboard

pingugopoo · 11/03/2023 08:15

I use Lucid chart when I don't have access to Visio.

Is it a 'paper based' flow chart that you want to make? Or a flow of questions/answers? Ie Is the light red or green?, you click the answer and it takes you to the next page with advice for red lights or green lights? And so on. Like a decision tree or diagnostic tool. There are other apps out there for that, as a plain flow chart gets pretty wild if it's complex.

BertieBotts · 13/03/2023 09:03

Thank you, I will look at all these!

I was thinking of the kind that is all on one page and you can see it all at once.

The first one is a decision tree - but it's fairly simple (4 questions) and I don't want to complicate it by having multiple pages.

The second is more to show progression, ie, these are the options from the start and then once that's finished with you can move onto X, Y, Z. If you've chosen X then that can later lead onto A or B, if you've chosen Y that can later lead onto B or C, etc. I think it helps to see it all at once.

Actually there was a third which is more like a diagnostic tool and could/should exclude options based on questions answered but I haven't thought that one through as much.

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