SOCKit

An easy-to-use tool for creating and exploring concept-maps in your browser.

Tutorials: Basics | Links | Subsystems

SOCKit is an interactive, dynamic, web-based tool for creating and exploring concept maps. Use simple, intuitive gestures to add concepts and link them together. The whole concept map responds when you move things around, making it easy to rearrange and organize, and it works great on mobile devices.

Concepts are connected by labeled links with arrows. Related concepts can be grouped into subsystems, which helps users divide complex systems into more manageable chunks. Subsystems also express the limits of the system being explored, and help to promote "systems thinking".

Diagrams can be downloaded as .socme files, and later reloaded into the SOCKit web page. Diagrams can also be exported as graphics, in SVG and PNG formats.

The System-Oriented Concept Map Extension, or SOCME, is an approach to concept mapping that promotes and facilitates systems thinking. SOCKit's "subsystem" features are designed with SOCMEs in mind.

SOCKit was developed as part of IUPAC Project 2020-014-3-050.