QnA Markup is an excellent and playful coding editor from lawyer/coder David Colarusso. Its code is available on GitHub for others to use & build from. It allows you to program out a series of questions and paths for the user to answer & follow. It allows for very fun, lively, conversational experiences. There is real promise here as a … Read More
How to create a Gantt Chart in Excel
Use Gant Charts to create a project management system, or a way to see what needs to happen before you get a finished project. You can create cascading dependencies based on time, so that you see how time changes will affect other parts of the process & the final deliverable. Here is a tutorial from SmartSheet. What Is a Gantt … Read More
Make an Interactive Timeline: TimelineSetter
ProPublica has created an interactive timeline-maker TimelineSetter. You can create a spreadsheet with special formatting & layout, and then load it into the code that you’ve installed on your website. TimelineSetter 0.3.2 TimelineSetter creates beautiful timelines. It is a command-line utility that takes a specially-structured CSV file as input and outputs standards-compliant HTML/CSS/JavaScript. It supports any span of time from … Read More
Make interactive stories & games with Twine
Twine is an open-source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories. You can create games or stories — including legal ones — to help create more instructional, scenario-based legal tools. You don’t need to write any code to create a simple story with Twine, but you can extend your stories with variables, conditional logic, images, CSS, and JavaScript when you’re ready. … Read More
Make A Beautiful Timeline
Timeline JS is an online tool from the Knight Lab at Northwestern University, that lets users make beautiful timelines in an easy & intuitive way. You have to prepare the times & contents in a spreadsheet, and then the tool lays it out into a gorgeous interactive tool. It’s just four steps to get a great timeline!