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Re: Generate Flowcharts from Text

#31

Post by breck » Mon, Mar 01, 2021, 5:35 PM UTC

Love it!!!

Re: Generate Flowcharts from Text

#32

Post by monstersinF » Mon, Mar 01, 2021, 5:39 PM UTC

tonerow wrote: post #5

layer8 wrote: post #4

I’m surprised the line-number references don’t auto-adjust when inserting/splitting/joining lines. That’s not very practical.

I totally had this thought too when making it. The logic is super simple as-is, so I was scared if I went down the rabbit whole of trying to auto increment/decrement line numbers I might muddy things up. I'll see if add that functionality cleanly at some point (or if you'd like to feel free to take out a PR!) Thanks for the feedback!

Let the user create their own labels?

Re: Generate Flowcharts from Text

#33

Post by kleer001 » Mon, Mar 01, 2021, 5:44 PM UTC

tijuco2 wrote: post #22

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

Gorgeous!

I bet there's a lost history (or oral history, but they're the nearly same after 60+ years) of tools exactly like this that goes back to the times of the PDP-1 and super early hacker culture.

And I bet there's been a version of it written for every operating system at some point. It just seems so necessary and relatively straight forward.

Re: Generate Flowcharts from Text

#34

Post by jazzex » Mon, Mar 01, 2021, 5:46 PM UTC

I like excalidraw. https://excalidraw.com/

Exports to json or image.

Re: Generate Flowcharts from Text

#35

Post by genericone » Mon, Mar 01, 2021, 5:49 PM UTC

Unfortunately my corporate firewall/IT-Policy blocks this page, possibly due to the *.fun domain. Any other way to try this out for those working in an office? ( I know I'm an outlier at this time)

Re: Generate Flowcharts from Text

#36

Post by bleepbaboop » Mon, Mar 01, 2021, 5:52 PM UTC

Implementing the use of a '?' in order to generate a diamond shaped "if/else" would be nice. For example:

Some text(2) Yes: (line num) No: (line num)

Re: Generate Flowcharts from Text

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Post by Veuxdo » Mon, Mar 01, 2021, 5:53 PM UTC

smusamashah wrote: post #30

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.

Missing Ilograph: https://app.ilograph.com/

It's heavier-duty compared to most of the others you have listed, but should appeal to engineers who want something more robust.

Re: Generate Flowcharts from Text

#38

Post by voxic11 » Mon, Mar 01, 2021, 5:53 PM UTC

Another similar tool that I have used in the past is https://mermaid-js.github.io/mermaid/#/

Re: Generate Flowcharts from Text

#39

Post by persedes » Mon, Mar 01, 2021, 5:54 PM UTC

genericone wrote: post #35

Unfortunately my corporate firewall/IT-Policy blocks this page, possibly due to the *.fun domain. Any other way to try this out for those working in an office? ( I know I'm an outlier at this time)

https://www.wikihow.com/Use-Google-As-a-Proxy ?

Re: Generate Flowcharts from Text

#40

Post by bdorn » Mon, Mar 01, 2021, 5:56 PM UTC

This is nice! Wish it took over tab key for indentation though.