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Re: Generate Flowcharts from Text

#21

Post by silasb » Mon, Mar 01, 2021, 5:15 PM UTC

Would be cool if you modified the chart and it kept it's position when editing.

Re: Generate Flowcharts from Text

#22

Post by tijuco2 » Mon, Mar 01, 2021, 5:16 PM UTC

I'd like to suggest this one here too https://asciiflow.com/. I've been using it to share ideas with engineers and everybody likes it

Re: Generate Flowcharts from Text

#23

Post by monkeydust » Mon, Mar 01, 2021, 5:16 PM UTC

A lot of my emails are becoming like this - structured, bullet points, 'if-then-else' like statement although not that explicit. This could be a nice way to add visualisation to it. Maybe - although everytime I have tried to do something too different with email it has failed.

Re: Generate Flowcharts from Text

#24

Post by regus » Mon, Mar 01, 2021, 5:20 PM UTC

I love this idea.

It would be great to have this as a command line tool.

I can envision a lot of cool features for this, like being able to add color via text markup, or being able to use circles instead of boxes for the nodes.

Re: Generate Flowcharts from Text

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Post by JustSomeNobody » Mon, Mar 01, 2021, 5:21 PM UTC

regus wrote: post #24

I love this idea. It would be great to have this as a command line tool. I can envision a lot of cool features for this, like being able to add color via text markup, or being able to use circles instead of boxes for the nodes.

Github link is at the bottom.

Re: Generate Flowcharts from Text

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Post by oneweekwonder » Mon, Mar 01, 2021, 5:29 PM UTC

definitely cool for being a spa!

Alternatives is blockdiag[0] with a online demo[1], and then of course graphviz[2] shipped with most distro(s).

[0]: http://blockdiag.com

[1]: http://blockdiag.com/en/blockdiag/demo.html

[2]: https://graphviz.org

Re: Generate Flowcharts from Text

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Post by kowlo » Mon, Mar 01, 2021, 5:30 PM UTC

Can achieve something similar in Jupyter Notebook with bockdiag https://datacrayon.com/posts/tools/jupyter/block-diagrams-wi...

Re: Generate Flowcharts from Text

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Post by awaythro15234 » Mon, Mar 01, 2021, 5:32 PM UTC

There is also Pikchr, made by Richard Hipp (creator of SQLite).

https://pikchr.org/home/doc/trunk/homepage.md

Re: Generate Flowcharts from Text

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Post by pstuart » Mon, Mar 01, 2021, 5:33 PM UTC

Another somewhat similar tool (from the team at SQLite, and used to make the diagrams contained therein): https://pikchr.org/home/doc/trunk/homepage.md

Re: Generate Flowcharts from Text

#30

Post by smusamashah » Mon, Mar 01, 2021, 5:33 PM UTC

A list I compiled of 40+ similar text to diagram tools. https://xosh.org/text-to-diagram/

Input in this one is very simple and cool.