I use Monodraw[0]. Best purchase I ever made. [0] https://monodraw.helftone.com/
+++ Monodraw is awesome!
Monosketch
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Re: Monosketch
#52this 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
Is there any way to make images accessible other than the alt tag? I'm sure SVGs are more machine-readable, but how would that help vision-impaired folks?
Re: Monosketch
#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
Monodraw got an update the other week. It isn't being changed, but it doesn't need to. Great little app. And it's $10, once. Hardly breaking the bank.
But it's not open, and can't be edited by those who want to. We should always support FOSS.
Absolutely we should. But this one isn't FOSS.
Re: Monosketch
#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
Doesn't it have those characters via extended ASCII? I seem to recall making boxes with characters back in my BASIC class.
"Extended ASCII" is just a sloppy term for a bunch of other encodings that are not, in fact, ASCII. If your BASIC class used (or emulated) a C64 or compatible, you were using https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PETSCII and if it used MS-DOC you were using https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codepage_437
We used QBasic, but I don't recall what version (maybe 4.5?). Codepage 437 looks similar to what I recall seeing, though.
Re: Monosketch
#55Pretty cool (and the linked in the comments monodraw I’m buying today it looks great too).
I’ve actually been tinkering with a web app (as a test bed for various spec driven dev frameworks with Claude code) a wireframing tool for TUI apps. Conceptually similar to figma almost, infinite canvas and all that jazz, but has premade components for the Ink TUI library (idea would be to support a few popular TUI frameworks eventually) and you can just drag and drop and design TUI interfaces, then download the skeleton code generated by the app for the whole frame.
I don’t know how far I’m going to take it, but it works so far. A picture is worth a thousand words, a picture of word characters in a ui layout is worth something right?
I’ll probably open source it eventually, I doubt there’s much of a commercial market opportunity for it
Re: Monosketch
#56Pretty cool (and the linked in the comments monodraw I’m buying today it looks great too). I’ve actually been tinkering with a web app (as a test bed for various spec driven dev frameworks with Claude code) a wireframing tool for TUI apps. Conceptually similar to figma almost, infinite canvas and all that jazz, but has premade components for the Ink TUI library (idea would be to support a few popular TUI frameworks e…
Love this idea. Would be cool to have a wysiwyg for https://ratatui.rs
Re: Monosketch
#57I use Monodraw[0]. Best purchase I ever made. [0] https://monodraw.helftone.com/
I also use Monodraw, can only recommend with one caveat:
@Dear Monodraw developers, if you're reading this, please please please implement discarding text edit popups using ESC, it's been years and I still keep reaching for ESC every time I use Monodraw. I tried decompiling it to binary patch it, but unfortunately it messes up the update mechanism.
Re: Monosketch
#58Looks promising. Coming from excalidraw, I can't live without the numbered 1-5 shortcuts to select the tool (instead of remembering R for rectangle, L for line, ...). Also a mode to "lock in" the current tool so I can draw many rectangles back to back. Those two things would make a huge difference in how fast I can sketch things out in this.
Re: Monosketch
#59That circuit schematic in the header is wrong enough to look like an AI-generated hallucination of what a schematic is from the "human with extra fingers" stage of image generation. Inconsistent symbol styles, missing pin labels, a shorted capacitor in the upper-left, etc.
Re: Monosketch
#60If you use Emacs, there's a pretty nifty package https://github.com/tbanel/uniline