OmniGraphSketcher

I started working on Graph Sketcher in 2003 after discovering that no available software let me quickly make simple labeled diagrams for economics problem sets. I released version 1.0 as a commercial product in 2006. It was also the focus of my master's thesis and other academic papers including a CHI 2009 Best Paper award.

In October 2008, Graph Sketcher was acquired by the Omni Group when I joined the company as a software developer. In March 2009, we publicly released the first version of OmniGraphSketcher. In April 2010, we released the first version of OmniGraphSketcher for iPad.

The Omni Group stopped selling OmniGraphSketcher (for both Mac and iPad) in July 2013 and made the codebase open source in January 2014. The GraphSketcher apps and code are now freely available to download.

OmniGraphSketcher official website archive: May 2013 | May 2010

News and reviews - OmniGraphSketcher for Mac:

• The Omni Blog: New from the Omni Group: OmniGraphSketcher
• Macworld.com news: The Omni Group unveils OmniGraphSketcher 1.0
• Things That Are Brown review: Tolerate Only the Best
• Arstechnica review: Graph Sketcher app reborn as OmniGraphSketcher for Mac
• Macinscience review: OmniGraphSketcher 1.0 Beta
• The Holy Trinity of OSes review: OmniGraphSketcher
• Haystack Blog note: Graph Sketcher wins Best Note at CHI
• Andy Brown blog: OmniGraphSketcher Review
• MacUser product review: OmniGraphSketcher
• Statistics News blog: Cool Graphing Software
• Quantum Progress review: Omnigraph sketcher, will you marry me?

News and reviews - OmniGraphSketcher for iPad:

• The Omni Blog; Designing OmniGraphSketcher for the iPad
• Mac Rumors: iPad App Store Reveals Launch Apps
• Macworld review: OmniGraffle and OmniGraphSketcher for iPad
• TiPb blog: Quick Review: OmniGraphSketcher for iPad
• MacNN review: OmniGraphSketcher for iPad

Reviews for the original Graph Sketcher:

• Mac360 review: Lies, Damned Lies, Statistics, and Graphs On A Mac
• Casting Out Nines review: Where has this software been all my life?

Academic papers:

• Graph Sketcher: Extending Illustration to Quantitative Graphs. (with m.c. schraefel) Proceedings of the 27th ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2009.
• Interfaces for Creating Quantitative Conceptual Diagrams. Masters Thesis, 2008.
• Usability of a Pen Interface for Sketching Graphs. Multimodal Interfaces Final Project Report, 2007.
• Usability of an Interface for Sketching Graphs. Independent Study Final Report, 2005.