Links connecting items being some kind of items themselves

Posted by Zman
Sep 13, 2010 at 08:41 PM

Zoot 6 is slowly taking over the funcitons of most of my other info toys…but its not great at visualization (neither is InfoQube’s Map view). I ran across an interesting program today and remembered this disucssion - check out “Visual Understanding Environment”

http://vue.tufts.edu/index.cfm

This has a lot of hidden power and in fact among other things provides for annotation of links between nodes - to include the ability to attach/link them to files or URLs. I’m playing with it to see if there is a way to import my PersonalBrain info to it cleanly (looks possible via XML). I’m impressed at the quality given that its open source. will play with export capabilites too.

I haven’t seen this discussed in this forum (though that does not mean it has not been mentioned)...Anybody used it before?

Zman
(a long time lurker and first time poster with a very long and chronic CRIMPer habit MAC/PC/LINUX)