Summarize ideas with a synoptic table maker
Organize information and immediately see the connections between concepts with the synoptic table maker. Improve your team’s ability to reduce complexity and innovate.
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Uncover insights with a synoptic table
Similar to a concept map, a synoptic table connects ideas and allows you to analyze concepts in-depth, creating a logical hierarchy that helps bring clarity to projects.
Analyze ideas
Visualize and explore how concepts relate. Organize and synthesize ideas using colors, images and branches with Miro’s synoptic table maker.
Quickly edit
Miro lets you edit your synoptic table with just a few clicks. Simply drag, drop, and connect elements. Choose the synoptic table maker that gives you the flexibility you need.
Why Miro is the best synoptic table maker
Built for collaboration
Create your synoptic table with others, offering teams the space and tools they need for blue-sky thinking. With Miro’s collaborative features, easily share your board and work on implementing ideas and tracking developments easily.
Connect the dots
Easily illustrate your project's concepts in Miro's infinite canvas to see how ideas connect, and concepts are intertwined. Start a conversation with stakeholders and get buy-in with well-rounded projects and ideas presented clearly.
Customizable features
Edit and add elements to your synoptic table according to your team's needs. Miro’s robust features allow you to customize your board by adding files and other artifacts needed to support your session.
Share it
Circulate your insights so stakeholders can weigh in or export at high fidelity. Use your synoptic table in presentations, meetings, and more.
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How to create a synoptic table
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Start with a topic
Add a topic into a box or shape — this is your starting point. From there, add a bracket and more ideas related to the previous one.
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Organize your ideas
Pay attention to the areas you know well and others you need to research. That’s the hint to gaps you need to work on.
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Collaborate in real time
Invite your team to co-create your synoptic table and get instant feedback directly on your board with comments and sticky notes.
Synoptic table maker FAQs
A synoptic table organizes information effectively, showing links between primary and secondary concepts, and breaking down complexity. It’s an excellent tool for running an in-depth analysis and bringing clarity to projects.
Use a synoptic table when you need to reduce complexity and get clarity on projects. The synoptic table helps you organize ideas hierarchically, breaking down concepts into subtopics and bringing a broader understanding of the problem.
Even though both processes can be used to bring clarity and organization to ideas, a synoptic table uses a structured overview to summarize and classify information, while a concept map organizes ideas through connections, with or without a hierarchical structure.
Miro’s collaborative workspace is perfect for sharing and co-creating your work with your team. To share your synoptic table, send your board link to your team, and they will have instant access to your work. Miro’s synoptic table maker allows you to work on your ideas collaboratively in real time or async, from anywhere.
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