Love Excalidraw. Used it for decades now, but reach for more powerful tools pretty often as I hit its limits. I'm not asking for the world, but some basics like being able to bold or italicize text would help out a lot.
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I use Excalidraw to manage my diagrams for my blog
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#72I love diagramming, but I genuinely don't understand how people can use these wonky looking tools. It looks off, I had to make my own[1] to create something that's easy to use and looks good/normal. [1] https://grafly.io
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Brand new account minutes ago and first post advertising. Awesome.
Re: I use Excalidraw to manage my diagrams for my blog
#75I love diagramming, but I genuinely don't understand how people can use these wonky looking tools. It looks off, I had to make my own[1] to create something that's easy to use and looks good/normal. [1] https://grafly.io
The best way to drive adoption to your product is to not shit on someone else's labour of love. Just a little pro-tip.
Re: I use Excalidraw to manage my diagrams for my blog
#76Obsidian also offers a full excalidraw integration
Re: I use Excalidraw to manage my diagrams for my blog
#77Obsidian also offers a full excalidraw integration
Not what I needed - my concepts life in one excalidraw, containing multiple frames of interest like https://github.com/martin-lysk/martin-lysk/blob/main/blog/26.... The blogposts reference some of them like here: https://blog.lysk.tech/nfs3-event-side-channel
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#78I have noticed diagrams are most useful early in thinking, but once things get complex they either become outdated or too hard to maintain. Curious how people here deal with that, do you keep diagrams in sync with code, or treat them as disposable?
I have reverted to using mermaid where we are beyond the ideation phase. Then the mermaid code can live next to the document source, and I need not search for the original diagram file to edit and export. Confluence has a nice mermaid plugin.
That way, the diagram source and
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#79Wow, I had no idea that excalidraw could "import" mermaid!! This is just awesome.. I can have my LLM generate mermaid, which it is really very good at. And then I can edit the diagram!
Re: I use Excalidraw to manage my diagrams for my blog
#80I love diagramming, but I genuinely don't understand how people can use these wonky looking tools. It looks off, I had to make my own[1] to create something that's easy to use and looks good/normal. [1] https://grafly.io
Questions:
1. Will you be making the source code public?
2. How to export the JSON for SCM, then re-import for updating/maintenance?