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Re: Monosketch

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Post by lemontheme »

Apreche wrote: post #4
jonpalmisc wrote: post #3

For 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.

Maybe it's just more or less feature-complete? Was curious, as someone who hadn't heard of it before, so I checked the blog. Last post is from April last year and concerns public testing of a new release. That's not particularly old, if you ask me?

Re: Monosketch

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Post by bargainbin »

aanet wrote: post #2

Looks fab. Great design. Can it make polygons? Basically, shapes other than rectangles? If so, how? (maybe I missed it?)

Not the author but I'm making a similar tool currently, and the reality is no because of the nature of it being character based.

You can theoretically have "artistic" polygons where it renders using a mixture of characters to emulate how that grid would be filled if a certain shaped was laid over it but the end result wouldn't be very functional for the purposes of diagramming.

Re: Monosketch

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Post by Sharlin »

Hate to be that guy, but ASCII doesn't contain box-drawing characters or arrows. I guess it's a lost cause though…

Re: Monosketch

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Post by rvz »

sbondaryev wrote: post #5

Nice project! This pairs nicely with ASCII-Driven Development - for iterating and modifying layouts with AI. https://medium.com/@calufa/ascii-driven-development-850f6666...

That does not make any sense at all in the long run.

Not everything has to be done in arcane ASCII diagrams because of vibes and LLMs.

This is yet another fad destined to be forgotten.

Re: Monosketch

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Post by baalimago »

aanet wrote: post #2

Looks fab. Great design. Can it make polygons? Basically, shapes other than rectangles? If so, how? (maybe I missed it?)

It's not an ascii renderer, but a ascii diagram drawing tool

Re: Monosketch

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Post by jen729w »

Apreche wrote: post #4
jonpalmisc wrote: post #3

For 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.

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.

Re: Monosketch

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Post by nasso_dev »

this 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

Re: Monosketch

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Post by lemontheme »

Oh nice, this is going in the tool belt. Simple and self-explanatory. Hits the same notes as excalidraw.

Only thing I couldn't figure out right away is how to copy the drawing itself (not the JSON data). Eventually I found cmd+shift+c in the keyboard shortcuts. Bit later I found 'Export Text' by clicking on the project name (default: 'Undefined').

I'd put that functionality a bit more front-and-center

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