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Looks beautiful but seems to be only for trees which you can sort of do just by indenting in a text editor. I sometimes want to organize things as a DAG and that's where indenting text starts to fail.

I wish there was a very general purpose graph editing and visualizing tool that could be as general purpose as spreadsheets.

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When I need a tool to organize things with a graph I usually just use yEd. You can do a surprising number of things with it:

- Graph layout algorithms

- Graph scoring (centrality etc.)

- Variety of node types

- You can add custom node types (to a point), even use pictures of things

- Cross-platform (not open source sadly)

- Swim-lanes, grids, grouping structures

- Graphs are saved as .graphml xml

and so on. It's not perfect, I wish I could also just drop in multi-media type files and turn them into node representations.

https://www.yworks.com/products/yed?

> I sometimes want to organize things as a DAG and that's where indenting text starts to fail.

Leo can do this.

http://leoeditor.com/

You can 'clone' nodes into different parts of the tree.

Have you seen Kumu?

It's a general purpose property-graph editor, backed by a CSS-like language that allows you to transform and style your graphs.

- https://kumu.io

- https://docs.kumu.io/guides/views-advanced.html

(disclosure: cofounder / lead dev)

This request seems to come up occasionally whenever a topic on graph management comes up but I wonder how many people actually need a general purpose graph editor.

I am currently working on Solvent and one of its features is an object graph management system that can be used to construct any sort of hierarchical data structure, in particular I have started demoing in to DevOps people configuring things like Kubernetes, cloudformation..etc.

Product page: http://codesolvent.com/config-mgr/

I just built this: akud.github.io/graphs

Was going to do some polishing before I did a Show HN.

Feel free to reach out to the email in my profile if you want to talk about it.

Would Graphviz [0] work for your purposes? Check out the gallery [1] for some examples.

[0]: http://www.graphviz.org

[1]: http://www.graphviz.org/Gallery.php

Does graphviz support interacting with the graphs?

Doesn't have an editor GUI, but a simple general graph editor and visualizer: https://github.com/fiatjaf/rel

(I wanted a nice GUI, but failed to make it)

Isn't something like a DAG doable by indenting in a text editor? Why not?

Each tree node only has one parent, which is easy to indicate through the indentation structure. In a DAG a node can have multiple parents - I'm not sure how this can be modeled with indentation.

I can't visualize how you would represent a node with multiple inbound edges in text, but it could be because I'm only halfway through my first coffee. Can you demonstrate in a comment box?

Graphviz's "dot" language supports this.

I think the confusion is that it sounded like the idea was without repetition.

Have you looked at the editor built right into OrientDB? http://orientdb.com/docs/2.0/orientdb-studio.wiki/Graph-Edit...

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