Over the last few years, I’ve tried out different graphical organizers, including Inspiration, CmapTools, Freemind. But recently someone left a comment that included a reference to VUE.

The Visual Understanding Environment (VUE) is an Open Source project based at Tufts University. The VUE project is focused on creating flexible tools for managing and integrating digital resources in support of teaching, learning and research. VUE provides a flexible visual environment for structuring, presenting, and sharing digital information.

VUE also provides supports for in-depth analysis of maps, with the ability to merge maps and export connectivity matrices to import in statistical packages. VUE also provide tools to apply semantic meaning to the maps, by way of ontologies and metadata schemas.

VUE also provides supports for in-depth analysis of maps, with the ability to merge maps and export connectivity matrices to import in statistical packages. VUE also provide tools to apply semantic meaning to the maps, by way of ontologies and metadata schemas.
Source: http://vue.tufts.edu/

It’s available for GNU/Linux, Mac and Windows (XP and Vista). It’s very easy to work with, lacking the clunkiness of CmapTools and the forced structure of Freemind.

Here’s a quick overview of the graphic organizers I’m aware of that I made using VUE (right-click to view full size)

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