All tools are now available in English too

This article was created with the AI assistant Claude and published by Peter Hoenig.

After the website, my tools now speak English too: the coaching tools from the systemic board to the Ikigai, the 3D tools, the 8EM Modeller, the tools for the office and for projects, and all questionnaires. In every tool, the DE | EN switch sits at the top right next to the version information. One click is enough – the tool changes language immediately, without reloading and without your entries being lost.

At a glance

• Every tool and every questionnaire can be used in German or English.
• If you have not chosen yourself, the language follows your browser: German if German is your preferred language, otherwise English.
• From the English website, the tools open in English straight away.
• The interface, help, messages, printouts, exports and the built-in examples are translated.
• Your own texts stay as you wrote them; files can be opened in both languages.
• The language is only stored if you click “DE” or “EN” yourself – and only in your browser.

What is translated

Everything the tool itself brings with it is translated: menus, buttons, notes, the help, error messages and confirmation prompts. What a tool outputs also appears in the chosen language – the printable record, the picture sheet of the 3D tools, the exports to PDF, PowerPoint, LibreOffice Impress, Visio, SVG and PNG, and the column headers of many CSV tables. If you start a new board in English mode or load the example, you get English template texts – for example the circles in the Ikigai or the levels in the logical levels.

The examples of the tools for the office and for projects appear in English too: the Kunden-Navigator and Vertriebs-Navigator with their e-mail templates, the Kanban board, project management, the ITSM tool and the master data. If you switch the language while you are only looking at an example, it switches along – except in the master data editor: there, the example becomes your data as soon as it is loaded and stays in the language in which you loaded it. As soon as you change something in it, it stays as it is.

For the questionnaires, I paid particular attention to the statements, the answer levels and the examples for each statement. The notices remain complete: the questionnaires are trial versions, not scientifically validated, and the models behind them are models for reflection and dialogue, not diagnostic instruments. Coaching is not a substitute for psychotherapy.

What deliberately stays as it is

• Your entries: the tool does not translate what you type. A saved file looks the same in both languages and can be opened again in either language.
• Accounting: the accounting tool continues to follow German tax law. The interface is in English; technical terms such as EÜR (cash-basis income statement), Umsatzsteuer-Voranmeldung (advance VAT return) or ELSTER remain in German and are explained. Its example remains a German set of books; otherwise the change log, which records every entry, would report translated example data as a change.
• Data exchange: where a CSV file is later read in again – for example in the master data editor or in the Vertriebs-Navigator, my tool for sales prospecting – the tool translates only the column headers in English mode; the contents stay as they were saved. When reading a file in, it recognises both German and English column headers, so that the exchange works reliably.
• Legal notices: the licence, disclaimer and data protection notices are also available in English in the help window; the German version is authoritative.

Data protection

The language choice needs no cookies and transmits nothing. Without your click, the tool stores no language setting; it merely reads which language your browser prefers or whether the address carries the suffix ?lang=en. If you click “DE” or “EN”, your browser remembers this choice for all my tools (entry “Language of the tools” in the privacy policy). You delete it by removing the website data in your browser.

Try it out

You will find the tools under Experimental – to try out and under Resources and downloads. The English texts were translated by the AI assistant Claude according to my specifications; I am checking them step by step. If a wording strikes you, I would welcome a short message.