Node based planning program?

McGreed

Anyone know a node based planning program where you can quickly make nodes with text/images in them, and drag relations to other nodes? I was looking at the nodes in UDK and found it so much easier for me to gather my thoughts by using it, however I need to for planning and structuring with other programs/tasks. Anyone got any good ideas for programs? Free is possible.

Selaznog

This is the one we use in school for planning:
http://learn.mindjet.com/MindManager2012USA?cmpgn=Americas_-_Google_US_Mindjet&gclid=CLeJ2NS7-7ECFSXhQgodLXQANQ

Great for asset lists

Neox

so this tool is 400 euro per seat?

kary

http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page Sort of thing?

Selaznog

I'd recommend not buying it.

Neox

Dude, as you are in school i can just guess you plan to make a living in this industry.
So you want to live from the sales of the software you are working on.

McGreed

Yeah, FreeMind is kinda what I'm looking for, though I would prefer some box/container form for each entry, as well be able to use thumbnails in them. More visual 'blocks' then text blocks.

Ben Apuna

https://live.gnome.org/Dia

McGreed

Ah yes, that was more in the line of what I was looking for, cheers. And thanks for the other suggestions, will have a look at them as well.

ElysiumGX

Google Drive (formally Google Docs) has a Drawing feature for diagrams.

Fully supports images
Online real-time collaboration
Free

http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2010/04/introducing-google-docs-drawings.html

monster

I like Dia a lot. Recently I've been using Libre Office Draw. Just because I happen to have it installed.

http://www.libreoffice.org/features/draw/

Ben Apuna

Google Drive Drawing and Libre Office Draw look like great tools.

The only other one I know of worth mentioning is yEd http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html

I'm not sure if it supports imported image based nodes like Dia does though.

McGreed

yEd actually looks quite nice, and its easy to put in things and make relations, however as you said, it doesn't look like you can put images in, only icons.

Google Drive Drawing looks nice, it acts like drawing program and not a flowchart program, which in a way is nice. It's online, so it has it upsides like having your work whenever you want it, downside is that you need internet to use it.

So far Dia seem to be the best option for me, it can do relations, boxes and images, and is free.