Tools for writing: Visual Thesaurus
I like Visual Thesaurus. It’s a graphical browser for words. I prefer it to the unadventurous thesaurus that’s in Word. It comes in two flavours: an online version and one that is downloaded and integrated into Word. You can try it for free but a full subscription costs $20 a year. The coolest thing is seeing all the words shuffle around.
Full disclosure: having been a customer for about nine months already, I was very flattered when they asked me to write a regular column for their online magazine for subscribers.
fishzle wrote:
This visual thesaurus doesn’t offer you any new words that you can’t find by other means. The only value add is a simple little graphical presentation of synonyms already available for free on the internet (eg, answers.com or thefreedictionary.com).
There’s an alternative (novel and perhaps more interesting) use for the same graphic technique.
http://www.aharef.info/static/htmlgraph/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.badlanguage.net%2F%3Fp%3D135
Or, if the link doesn’t work, put your URL into
http://www.aharef.info/static/htmlgraph
Posted on 14-Jun-06 at 5:27 am | Permalink
Notes from the Field wrote:
Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus…
I had the need today to look up a synonym so I hit up google instead of my usual trip to http://thesaurus.reference.com/...
Posted on 15-May-07 at 8:50 pm | Permalink