[caption id="attachment_748" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="John 3:6 using YEd Graph Editor"]
Before using yEd, I tried XMind and I like the colors and the look-and-feel. However, it cannot perform auto-arrange, and I have to manually reposition all floating topics. Floating topics are even harder to manage, since XMind is more for brainstorming where there is hierarchical organization of some topics. I can't even move the group of floating topics without disordering them. It looks like the one below.
[caption id="attachment_749" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Romans 8:28 using XMind"]
Personal Brain looks complicated to use, and it seems to behave like XMind, but I only spent few minutes trying the software. I was not able to run Prototype Composer because it requires .Net Framework 1.1 and I did not want to install .Net 1.1 just to run the program. I tried some web-based, and I'm also not satisfied with their features. Most of them are flash-based and they lack the ability to auto-arrange the nodes.
yEd works well and they have considered most of what I need especially in customizing the styles of the nodes and the edges. The default colors and styles of the edges and nodes are plain and simple. I customized them using the color and styles of XMind then I added these components to my palette so I can use them in creating new objects. The objects can even be grouped inside another box. Clicking the background creates new nodes, and performing a mouse drag gesture over a node creates an edge.
[caption id="attachment_750" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="yEd Romans 8:28"]
I still need more time to study these representations I made. I'm not even 100% sure if using the available NLP resources, such representations can be made with high accuracy, and I'm also not sure if such representation correctly represents the meaning of the text.
I'll have to download yEd and give it a whirl. The auto-arrange feature sounds helpful. I'm currently using LucidChart and have overall been quite pleased with it.
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