Hi, Dragan.
>My method is somewhere between these two - I generally try to put the simple nodes (2 branches) between their neighbors, and for others just to shorten the lines. Then it goes like... well, pretty much as if this was the final drawing made on a transparent foil, but the foil was folded a number of times, so I try to find pieces that can be "unfolded" (by dragging all their points more or less symmetrically across the fold line). When I unfold them all, I just read the score.
It reminded me of my two girls. They love to play with threads ans every time they mess them, they bring them to me to untie all those tangle of knots. This is quite similar. Also, it could seen as a metaphor of untangling Spaghetti Code. 8-D
Regards,