Hate to be that guy, but ASCII doesn't contain box-drawing characters or arrows. I guess it's a lost cause though…
Doesn't it have those characters via extended ASCII? I seem to recall making boxes with characters back in my BASIC class.
Monosketch
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Re: Monosketch
#22Pedantic note to people using 'ASCII' in this thread (although Monosketch tool does't (EDIT actually does) claim to be ASCII). It uses e.g. "◎" U+25CE BULLSEYE which definitely isn't.
And the 'ascii-driven-development' blog post mentioned downthread even uses emojis.
Re: Monosketch
#23Pedantic note to people using 'ASCII' in this thread (although Monosketch tool does't (EDIT actually does) claim to be ASCII). It uses e.g. "◎" U+25CE BULLSEYE which definitely isn't. And the 'ascii-driven-development' blog post mentioned downthread even uses emojis.
> Pedantic note to people using 'ASCII' in this thread (although Monosketch tool does't claim to be ASCII).
In big ASCII letters on the landing page: Unleash your ideas with ASCII [] MonoSketch is a powerful ASCII sketching and diagramming app that lets you effortlessly transform your ideas into visually stunning designs.
:-)
Re: Monosketch
#24Pedantic note to people using 'ASCII' in this thread (although Monosketch tool does't (EDIT actually does) claim to be ASCII). It uses e.g. "◎" U+25CE BULLSEYE which definitely isn't. And the 'ascii-driven-development' blog post mentioned downthread even uses emojis.
> Pedantic note to people using 'ASCII' in this thread (although Monosketch tool does't claim to be ASCII). In big ASCII letters on the landing page: Unleash your ideas with ASCII [] MonoSketch is a powerful ASCII sketching and diagramming app that lets you effortlessly transform your ideas into visually stunning designs. :-)
I claimed a few things. I never claimed I could read.
Re: Monosketch
#25I'd love some version of these tools that could reliably round-trip pure text. Some heuristic or model that can actually recognise boxes, lines with anchors, parent-child relationships etc, so you can paste in pure text and immediately start rearranging stuff. My experience with Monodraw was that you had to maintain the original file format to do this, so once a diagram was in a markdown file or whatever, you couldn't just cut and paste it and easily edit it. At that point it might as well be any file format rendered as an image.
Re: Monosketch
#26https://github.com/jlongster/tigma there is also this
Re: Monosketch
#27this is super cool as an art form but ASCII art is an accessibility nightmare so please don't use it for docs unless you know what you're doing and have made it accessible in some other way
Good reminder to keep in mind.
At the same time, I don't think one should necessarily limit your expression based on constraints like accessibility.
Re: Monosketch
#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Pedantic note to people using 'ASCII' in this thread (although Monosketch tool does't claim to be ASCII). In big ASCII letters on the landing page: Unleash your ideas with ASCII [] MonoSketch is a powerful ASCII sketching and diagramming app that lets you effortlessly transform your ideas into visually stunning designs. :-)
I claimed a few things. I never claimed I could read.
Maybe if it was all in emoji?
Re: Monosketch
#29For a native macOS app, there is also Monodraw [1], which is great. [1] https://monodraw.helftone.com
Mono draw is in maintenance mode and non-free. Based on the name, pretty sure that Monosketch is an explicit replacement.
> Based on the name
I think in this case the name alone is not enough to suspect a replacement; perhaps it’s just a similar product in the same domain (_mono_space visual editors).
Re: Monosketch
#30I use Monodraw[0]. Best purchase I ever made.