yEd Graph Editor

For my work I regularly need flowcharts to display data and structures. Today I will introduce you to yEd. It is a free graph editor even though I tried several alternatives I stick to it. I use it mostly for custom diagrams like the display of pages and button structures. Usually I try not to make complex graphs because it is a pain for most people to create the” big picture” from a graph. If others don’t get the main idea immediately, you failed. So i cut them in smaller areas and made them as simple as possible.

A nice feature of yEd is the automatic layout structure. You can select connected objects and choose a layout format, yEd is doing the rest for you. An introduction video to yED is shown below. It is a nice software, available for for Windows, Unix/Linux and Mac OS.

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