How do you prepare your projects?

[eluser]Daniel Moore[/eluser]
I've decided to try to find a better alternative to flow charting myself.

I have been doing it with pencil and paper, and once complete, putting it into Open Office Draw, which works, but has been a real pain.

I have just discovered Dia. It's open source, and it is available for Linux and has been ported to Windows. It's not available for the Mac, so I suppose Mac users will continue to use Omnigraffle or something similar.

http://live.gnome.org/Dia

You can get the Windows installer at the following link.
http://dia-installer.de/index_en.html

I know there has been a bit of discussion about good flow charting software in the past, and I've never seen a consensus on what is a good program for either the Windows platform or Linux platform. Have a go at it and report back what you think. It's free, fun, and easy to use.

Use the drop down box below the main buttons, and select "Other Sheets>" then select "Flow Chart" or what ever else you would like to design.

Take a few minutes to learn it, and you won't be sorry. I've spent 10 minutes learning it, just playing around, and already I can now create a flowchart easier in this than on paper.