Is there software for goal factoring?

post by philip_b (crabman) · 2020-02-18T19:55:37.764Z · LW · GW · No comments

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Is there software for goal factoring (the CFAR technique)? I want to use it to create a directed graph, which is not necessarily a tree and may have cycles (this requirement disqualifies mind mapping software). Nodes are goals, they have attached text. There's an edge from goal x to goal y iff fulfillment of x directly contributes to fulfillment of y. There should be an easy way to see the graph and modify it, preferrably in a visual way.

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answer by Eli Tyre (elityre) · 2020-02-18T20:16:21.193Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

To my knowledge, Yed is the least worst existing graphing software.

I use it, as does Andrew Critch, and people at Leverage / Paradigm, generally.

↑ comment by philip_b (crabman) · 2020-03-31T21:57:10.444Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Thanks to your advice, I've tried it for goal factoring and for drawing various diagrams. It's great! (by which I mean it's less awful than other software)

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↑ comment by Raj Thimmiah (raj-thimmiah) · 2021-04-27T10:34:17.295Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Are you still using it now or did you find a better solution?

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↑ comment by philip_b (crabman) · 2021-04-27T11:37:14.095Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

I don't do goal factoring regularly, so I haven't used yed that much. For very small graphs I find graphviz better. If for some reason I need to draw a large graph and I don't need it to look very good, I'll probably go for yed again.

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