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Without a doubt one of the most useful 100% free software tools a dev has at their disposal.
Draw.io and Web Sequence Diagrams really improved my code documentation because I actually want to use them. Pretty rare for software imo.
For me, the biggest advantage Draw.io has over many of its competitors is that it can be self-hosted.
I've tried drawing diagrams with these tools and it seems so much harder for quick drafting than just using pen and paper and also a lot of work to get anything even remotely good looking (like aligning things or making boxes of the same size, ie performing mass operations). I would like to use a tool where I first describe the relations in text/code and the layouting and formatting is done separately, and formatting…
> it seems so much harder for quick drafting than just using pen and paper I don’t consider that a reasonable criticism. Of course using pen and paper is quicker and easier. The advantage of any digital format is that it is distributable, universally readable and persistent.
I have a "smart pen" that saves anything I write as a PDF on my phone that can be searched and stored where I choose (including cloud services).
The downside is that you have to write on special paper or in special notebooks. But it's not as terrible as it sounds because the notebooks are very reasonably priced.
It also works as an actual pen.
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I’ve found the draw.io experience to be so far above Visio that I just can’t imagine going back. I put it up there with VLC and Handbrake as quality apps. Even as a common dirty pirate; I donated to all of those.
I'm a fan as well. My org ended up dropping our draw.io intergration in Confluence in favour of Lucidchart; I'm still not really sure why as it appears to be worse in functionality as well as slower and more tied to a cloud backend.
(former employee)
When trying to create a new drawing, if I select the "not in my root folder" option, it a) tries to log me in despite my already being logged in, and b) fails anyway.
https://www.screencast.com/t/g4wnSWLDtOLk
Clicking the "Sign in" button closes the dialog and reopens it. It does this cycle twice, then shows this error pane:
> draw.io is a client-side, static web application. There is no user authenication or data storage concept in this repo. The online version stores data in mainstream cloud storage options, currently Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, Github, Gitlab or Trello. I love this about Draw.io. This is how I want to build my applications. I don't want to deal with storing any user data and rather let them handle it how they see…
You may be interested in https://remotestorage.io/ .
Ok, just a note to everyone ! It is online service and your diagrams are stored in the "cloud" and you have zero control over it. Please, do not post your company's secret in form of diagrams. Recently, we caught one of the contractors using Draw.io to make diagrams of brand new systems that we are designing(we are fortune 40 company). System is expensive, very sensitive.
I made a diagram on Sunday and saved it to my local device without logging in; nothing stored in the cloud. Just opened it again from my local storage and it loaded into draw.io with no problem.
Fascinating to hear the other uses, and thankyou for a wonderful and elegant tool!
I've tried drawing diagrams with these tools and it seems so much harder for quick drafting than just using pen and paper and also a lot of work to get anything even remotely good looking (like aligning things or making boxes of the same size, ie performing mass operations). I would like to use a tool where I first describe the relations in text/code and the layouting and formatting is done separately, and formatting…
> it seems so much harder for quick drafting than just using pen and paper I don’t consider that a reasonable criticism. Of course using pen and paper is quicker and easier. The advantage of any digital format is that it is distributable, universally readable and persistent.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’ve found the draw.io experience to be so far above Visio that I just can’t imagine going back. I put it up there with VLC and Handbrake as quality apps. Even as a common dirty pirate; I donated to all of those.
I'm a fan as well. My org ended up dropping our draw.io intergration in Confluence in favour of Lucidchart; I'm still not really sure why as it appears to be worse in functionality as well as slower and more tied to a cloud backend.
(disclaimer: employee of Lucid Software)
Ok, just a note to everyone ! It is online service and your diagrams are stored in the "cloud" and you have zero control over it. Please, do not post your company's secret in form of diagrams. Recently, we caught one of the contractors using Draw.io to make diagrams of brand new systems that we are designing(we are fortune 40 company). System is expensive, very sensitive.
> your diagrams are stored in the "cloud" and you have zero control over it I made a diagram on Sunday and saved it to my local device without logging in; nothing stored in the cloud. Just opened it again from my local storage and it loaded into draw.io with no problem.