For ASCII diagrams: http://www.asciiflow.com/ or http://ditaa.sourceforge.net/
Neat! Thanks.
Ask HN: What software for diagrams and flowcharts do you use?
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Re: Ask HN: What software for diagrams and flowcharts do you use?
#52http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html
Auto-layout is what makes tools like yEd special. I showed someone recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5vqVgd4KW8&t=2m10s
Re: Ask HN: What software for diagrams and flowcharts do you use?
#53Omnigraffle. Illustrator.
Re: Ask HN: What software for diagrams and flowcharts do you use?
#54Lekh Diagram ( http://www.avabodh.com/lekh ) Quick way to draw flowchart, block diagram etc. Only available for iOS though.
I had tried Lekh Diagram and Grafio both and found the latter to be better. You may want to try it out. http://www.tentouchapps.com/grafio
Lekh has better shape recognition and shape customizibility.
- you can resize vertically and horizontally independently which grafio can not
- you can move vertices of any polygon.
- You can draw bezier curve and modify it to any shape by changing the control points.
-Lekh recognizes different kinds of connections from your drawing.
Re: Ask HN: What software for diagrams and flowcharts do you use?
#55Omnigraffle pro
Re: Ask HN: What software for diagrams and flowcharts do you use?
#56Flowcharts are stupid. Simple systems can be internalized (kept in your mind, perfectly), and complex systems are too complex to graph to any human scale size or useful purpose. These two categories do not overlap. They apply recursively all the way down. Waste of time, no value.
Re: Ask HN: What software for diagrams and flowcharts do you use?
#57Flowcharts are stupid. Simple systems can be internalized (kept in your mind, perfectly), and complex systems are too complex to graph to any human scale size or useful purpose. These two categories do not overlap. They apply recursively all the way down. Waste of time, no value.
Flowcharts are waste of time.
But diagrams can be very helpful. The important thing to remember is that "a complete map" will be too noisy to be useful.
A diagram can describe a few parts of a complex system quickly and easily.
Re: Ask HN: What software for diagrams and flowcharts do you use?
#58Flowcharts are stupid. Simple systems can be internalized (kept in your mind, perfectly), and complex systems are too complex to graph to any human scale size or useful purpose. These two categories do not overlap. They apply recursively all the way down. Waste of time, no value.
Flowcharts are a great documentation and vizualization tool, if used properly it greatly reduce time required to understand system processes and behaviour.
Re: Ask HN: What software for diagrams and flowcharts do you use?
#59Powerpoint
Re: Ask HN: What software for diagrams and flowcharts do you use?
#60Used to use Omnigraffle, but these days I'm a Keynote kid.