Visual Understanding Environment
Visual Understanding Environment (VUE) is a mind-mapping and concept-mapping tool. It is also a non-linear presentation program.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
The project seems no longer developed. Last version, 3.3.0, released in October 2015, can be still downloaded from the official website and from GitHub.
Features
- Java IDE
- Non linear presentation
- Mind Mapping
- Concept Mapping
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What is Visual Understanding Environment?
The Visual Understanding Environment or VUE is a free, open source concept mapping application written in Java.
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. Using VUE's concept mapping interface, faculty and students design semantic networks of digital resources drawn from digital libraries, local and remote file systems.
Visual Understanding Environment information
Developed by
TUFT University Licensing
Open Source and Free product.Written in
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- English
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Office & ProductivityGitHub repository
- 602 Stars
- 149 Forks
- 49 Open Issues
- Updated
Comments and Reviews
VUE does not have as many features and options as many other mapping programs (no preset icons and little hover effects and text pop-ups or lots of other things. VUE is basically just simpler for really good mapping layout. The tools look great, are responsive… This is one of those programs you just play with and in five minutes you understand everything. It isn't dense and frustrating. And somehow the results just look better, more clean and professional than most other options.
For people wanting to just create simple mind-maps or concept-map charts or non-linear presentations, this is superb. Full rich-text formatting, import for images, programmed presentation paths…
Great stuff! And ethical for being Free and Open Source!
[Edited by wolftune, August 26]
It seems more powerful then other Mindmap App, more complex
But it's broken. Not just abandoned, but broken. It doesn't import old maps, it doesn't export in reasonable formats. It's a waste of your time, a complete dead end. Too sad, but we must look for an alternative
Despite the project having not been updated for years, it remains my go-to utility for sketching out concept maps and other informal graphs because it's so flexible and easy to use. As far as I'm concerned, nothing else even comes close. It's played a very important role in my academic work over the years, and I'm sad Tufts seems to have stopped developing it.