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Re: Generate Flowcharts from Text

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Post by josephjrobison »

Love this interface, slight deviation but related question:

If I wanted to hire a web developer to build a web app that let the user quickly build marketing funnels, what type of person would I be looking for? Front end JavaScript developer?

Essentially like LucidChart lite

Re: Generate Flowcharts from Text

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Post by stevesimmons »

vjeux wrote: post #77
lifeisstillgood wrote: post #67

I have come to the conclusion there are two kinds of audience and two kinds of diagram, abs they almost exactly overlap 1. Engineering diagrams, explaining concepts to other engineers who are using the diagram as a jumping off point to deeper explorations 2. "Business" diagrams - the sort of thing we want to see in a Medium article or presentation. The style and correct placement matters far more than engineering. Th…

I would love to see an integration with excalidraw where you write text to seed the diagram and then do the touch ups with something like excalidraw. That would solve I think your workflow.

Please give me a combination between Excalidraw and Graphviz, with stylesheets, and layouts generated via a straightforward Python API, immediately displayable in a Jupyter notebook, with a display widget having hooks to move items around, giving auto-updating a Python property dict.

Re: Generate Flowcharts from Text

#104

Post by asimjalis »

I love it. One thing that would be nice is lines and boxes that look like they are hand-drawn. Like Excalidraw. And maybe comic sans font. Or a way to enable that. Because that would be more fun in a brainstorming session.

Re: Generate Flowcharts from Text

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Post by aembleton »

lifeisstillgood wrote: post #67

I have come to the conclusion there are two kinds of audience and two kinds of diagram, abs they almost exactly overlap 1. Engineering diagrams, explaining concepts to other engineers who are using the diagram as a jumping off point to deeper explorations 2. "Business" diagrams - the sort of thing we want to see in a Medium article or presentation. The style and correct placement matters far more than engineering. Th…

This tool (flowchart.fun) does let you download the SVG. You can then edit it in Inkscape.

Re: Generate Flowcharts from Text

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Post by rckrd »

I love when underlying data structures boil down to directed graphs. Turns out that indentation is a bad way to represent graphs (as someone who has tried many times to encode large Kubernetes service topologies in YAML). A language like dot or virgo (https://github.com/r2d4/virgo) seem more appropriate for this task

Re: Generate Flowcharts from Text

#108

Post by statstutor »

lifeisstillgood wrote: post #67

I have come to the conclusion there are two kinds of audience and two kinds of diagram, abs they almost exactly overlap 1. Engineering diagrams, explaining concepts to other engineers who are using the diagram as a jumping off point to deeper explorations 2. "Business" diagrams - the sort of thing we want to see in a Medium article or presentation. The style and correct placement matters far more than engineering. Th…

Is this not exactly what you want?

You can write the markdown and then drag and drop boxes (or directly edit the SVG).

Re: Generate Flowcharts from Text

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Post by genericone »

tonerow wrote: post #49
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)

Here's the raw netlify domain - https://agitated-knuth-acd401.netlify.app/

That works perfectly, thank you.
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