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Re: Monodraw

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Post by supertron » Sat, Mar 09, 2024, 5:54 PM UTC

Monodraw is great. I occasionally use it to document system architecture in code comments and project READMEs etc. [0]

Also handy as a quick way to document CSS styles to help visualise which parts of a layout a given style targets [1]

[0] https://gist.github.com/supertr0n/f006a5f61b60160862ec13024e...

[1] https://gist.github.com/supertr0n/462325ec3f7fbea02780039150...

Re: Monodraw

#62

Post by russellendicott » Sat, Mar 09, 2024, 5:56 PM UTC

notnmeyer wrote: post #45

monodraw has been one of my favorite diagramming tools, but never seemed to be popular with the folks i worked with.

Yeah, I'm known as the ASCII diagram guy at work because I use ASCIIFlow a lot. Still not sure if people think I'm a joke.

https://asciiflow.com/#/

Re: Monodraw

#63

Post by durandal1 » Sat, Mar 09, 2024, 5:59 PM UTC

Julesman wrote: post #56

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Because beautiful diagrams that can be edited and viewed anywhere and any developer tool and platform on the planet.

Re: Monodraw

#64

Post by russellendicott » Sat, Mar 09, 2024, 5:59 PM UTC

paulirish wrote: post #41

Looks nice. https://asciiflow.com/ is a web-based alternative that's been my go-to for a decade.

I use ASCIIFlow all the time. I still haven't figured out how to get browsers to render the monospace fonts correctly see example diagram on this page: http://uggly.bytester.net/#how-it-works

Re: Monodraw

#65

Post by synthmeat » Sat, Mar 09, 2024, 6:01 PM UTC

milen wrote: post #46

techn00 wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The code will be packaged up and sold by unscrupulous people who will not contribute back Choose a good license then

A license wouldn't stop the unscrupulous people, they'll keep making clones of it and ignoring the license. This means I have to start chasing any clones, engage legally and try to take them down. It's just not worth the time - I would rather spend the time on improving Monodraw instead.

To voice support for current state - do what you're already doing, and I agree on focusing on opening up the format.

Don't hesitate to charge for v2, if improvements pile up and you have affordances to do so. Will gladly pay.

It's pretty great already as-is. Thank you.

Re: Monodraw

#66

Post by bayindirh » Sat, Mar 09, 2024, 6:02 PM UTC

I use Monodraw since the first day it came out. I use it to draw software architecture, diagrams, and most importantly login banners to the systems I manage personally.

It's a nice, to the point tool.

Re: Monodraw

#67

Post by supertron » Sat, Mar 09, 2024, 6:05 PM UTC

milen wrote: post #44

hanniabu wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Curious what some of the requested features are since it seems feature complete to me

The main requests have been for: - Plaintext format (in progress) - Dark mode support for the main canvas (in progress) - Auto/Dynamic Layout - Table support - ANSI export

> Dark mode support

Hell yeah! I'm a long time user of Monodraw (thanks for the awesome work!) and this would be an instant upgrade for me :)

Re: Monodraw

#68

Post by constantinum » Sat, Mar 09, 2024, 6:13 PM UTC

One of the first few tools I install on a new machine. Absolutely no subscription nonsense.

Re: Monodraw

#69

Post by sigma5 » Sat, Mar 09, 2024, 6:13 PM UTC

how does it compare to excalidraw ?

Re: Monodraw

#70

Post by ukd1 » Sat, Mar 09, 2024, 6:19 PM UTC

I've been using this since 2015 - and just found out today they have a cli tool! But, I bought through the App Store so it's not available for me. For any users, is the cli tool useful?