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Monodraw: ASCII art editor for the Mac

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Re: Monodraw: ASCII art editor for the Mac

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Post by themodelplumber »

webwielder2 wrote: post #57

This is why I love the Mac. Even obscure apps have a beautiful interface and easy to use web site. I know this is incendiary, but I must say it: on Windows, this app's site would have seven giant, fake download buttons, the actual download would play an ad, and the app would look like something from a fever dream.

There was a windows compatible app posted here and I can't see ads or fakery. I do see the fever dream aspect, but you have to concede that we are talking about ANSI art here. Which is basically fever dream art in a lot of cases.

Re: Monodraw: ASCII art editor for the Mac

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Post by themodelplumber »

oneweekwonder wrote: post #43

While Monodraw seems to have business related features I feel the need to mention "Mœbius ANSI Art Editor"[0] a cross platform open source alternative. Moebius is a new ANSI and ASCII Editor for MacOS, Windows, and Linux. With a neat Moebius Server feature that allows collaboration by multiple users on the same canvas through a server instance. [0]: https://blocktronics.github.io/moebius/

That's pretty neat. I didn't realize 16 Colors uses the server feature. https://16colo.rs/servers/

Re: Monodraw: ASCII art editor for the Mac

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Post by themodelplumber »

ynac wrote: post #27

Long-time user here. Laying out newsletters, flow charts, diagrams, and figlets. It has very few issues these days, and only a couple minor points of frustration in the UI. For my purposes, it's the best thing out there. A couple of workflow tips for using Monodraw: * Open a few docs in Monodraw at a time and leave them open for your different needs: text boxes, figlets, diagrams. Each with a few elements already wai…

That's cool that you use it in these ways. Do you have any example newsletters or flowcharts we can look at?

Re: Monodraw: ASCII art editor for the Mac

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Post by app4soft »

oneweekwonder wrote: post #43

While Monodraw seems to have business related features I feel the need to mention "Mœbius ANSI Art Editor"[0] a cross platform open source alternative. Moebius is a new ANSI and ASCII Editor for MacOS, Windows, and Linux. With a neat Moebius Server feature that allows collaboration by multiple users on the same canvas through a server instance. [0]: https://blocktronics.github.io/moebius/

> a cross platform

Not a cross-platform, but JavaScript-extension with cross-platform Chromium browser bundled.

Re: Monodraw: ASCII art editor for the Mac

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Post by typon »

oneweekwonder wrote: post #43

While Monodraw seems to have business related features I feel the need to mention "Mœbius ANSI Art Editor"[0] a cross platform open source alternative. Moebius is a new ANSI and ASCII Editor for MacOS, Windows, and Linux. With a neat Moebius Server feature that allows collaboration by multiple users on the same canvas through a server instance. [0]: https://blocktronics.github.io/moebius/

This has like...none of the features of Monodraw? Drawings aren't objects - this is just a canvas. This is not an alternative to Monodraw - but an ASCII painting app.
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