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Generate Flowcharts from Text

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Re: Generate Flowcharts from Text

#12
This seems really nice as a sketchpad for small flowcharts. I'd definitely use it to map out a small piece of work, because I'm terrible at laying out flowcharts on scrap paper without wasting space or painting myself into a corner.

One minor annoyance: I can't use tab/shift+tab to indent or dedent lines.

Re: Generate Flowcharts from Text

#13

This seems really nice as a sketchpad for small flowcharts. I'd definitely use it to map out a small piece of work, because I'm terrible at laying out flowcharts on scrap paper without wasting space or painting myself into a corner. One minor annoyance: I can't use tab/shift+tab to indent or dedent lines.

Thank you, that's a good suggestion. Making a note

Re: Generate Flowcharts from Text

#14
I'm in love. I want this as part of an assertion workflow for some of the graph building interfaces we're envisioning for biological data. For example you could allow lines to call from autocompletes, and store some metadata (e.g. extensions of labels) so that the whole widget could be embedded in your tool.

Re: Generate Flowcharts from Text

#15
post #13

This seems really nice as a sketchpad for small flowcharts. I'd definitely use it to map out a small piece of work, because I'm terrible at laying out flowcharts on scrap paper without wasting space or painting myself into a corner. One minor annoyance: I can't use tab/shift+tab to indent or dedent lines.

Thank you, that's a good suggestion. Making a note

Do it for all the selected lines, when multiple lines have been selected and tab pressed.

Re: Generate Flowcharts from Text

#16

I would love to see this as a cli, I'm tired of PlantUML's[1] document compilation time. Guess even the plain text tools are made in React nowadays, sigh [1]: https://plantuml.com/

I've had no problems with PlantUML's compilation time. How large are these documents?

Re: Generate Flowcharts from Text

#19
I have now used this to explain some of our architecture to a client over Teams.

If you guys haven't tried building up a diagram, live, step by step like an ad-hoc slideshow, I seriously recommend it.

Re: Generate Flowcharts from Text

#20
It would be great to have an option to be able to save the text to a file, and load text from a file.

Also an ability to click a line and create a connected node.

Also it would be great to drive the app from the diagram, ie generate text from the diagram.

Anyway I like it. I've used Linux Mint's built in Web Apps tool to create an offline version.

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