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I use Excalidraw to manage my diagrams for my blog

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Re: I use Excalidraw to manage my diagrams for my blog

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Post by lnenad »

everybodyknows wrote: post #80
lnenad wrote: post #22

I 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?

It's open source, I just haven't linked it in the project (my bad).

https://github.com/lnenad/grafly/

In the upper right there is an import/export button that could be used for this. It's stored in localstorage so you could also dump that to wherever you like.

edit: added link to the repo in the about modal. edit2: added import export of the entire localstorage entry on the bottom of the diagrams(left) panel.

Re: I use Excalidraw to manage my diagrams for my blog

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Post by lnenad »

beAbU wrote: post #75
lnenad wrote: post #22

I 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.

How did I shit on excalidraw? I don't like how it looks, it's a personal preference. I don't think saying that equates to shitting on it.

Re: I use Excalidraw to manage my diagrams for my blog

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Post by tom1337890 »

rykuno wrote: post #74
tom1337890 wrote: post #73

[dead]

Brand new account minutes ago and first post advertising. Awesome.

Well, no ads, just saying. I am using this myself.

I use excalidraw a lot and it's hard to manage different drawings. So the fact that each drawing is one note is great.

Further, publishing the drawing on a hosted instance gives you a permalink to it, so you would actually never need to export a drawing and would have a live reference.

I think this integration is really useful.

And yes, I did not find my old account, so I created a new one :-)

Re: I use Excalidraw to manage my diagrams for my blog

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Post by freedomben »

walthamstow wrote: post #14

Excalidraw has proliferated quite widely in my company since we got Claude Code. Its a shame the default font is ugly, childish and inaccessible.

I love excalidraw, but I have to agree. It also looks very unprofessional so if you ever have to write customer-facing diagrams, you have tool fragmentation. I just stick to draw.io now (aka diagrams.net)

Re: I use Excalidraw to manage my diagrams for my blog

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Post by gilbetron »

irl_zebra wrote: post #63

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.

Decades? Wasn't it created in 2020?

Re: I use Excalidraw to manage my diagrams for my blog

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Post by hhh »

count wrote: post #60
hhh wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

AI can generate mermaid diagrams, not excalidraw. If you use the mermaid to excalidraw, i guess it can be, but it just looks like a mermaid diagram then and not an excalidraw.

we have an excalidraw MCP for claude, it can easily do both :) (Excalidraw is basically just fancy SVG)

oh wow, cool

Re: I use Excalidraw to manage my diagrams for my blog

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Post by bundie »

lloydatkinson wrote: post #26
walthamstow wrote: post #14

Excalidraw has proliferated quite widely in my company since we got Claude Code. Its a shame the default font is ugly, childish and inaccessible.

Whiteboard handwriting is childish?

It just looks weird not childish.

Re: I use Excalidraw to manage my diagrams for my blog

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Post by mlysk »

quanta-rs wrote: post #70
mlysk wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Author here: Haha - yeah that is kind of meta - i know. Other content will be more about the acutual problems i solve. Check out https://blog.lysk.tech/sqlite-on-git-prologue ;-)

Hey, I found that interesting and went looking for an RSS feed link on your site but couldn't find any. Assuming you don't have it already, do you plan to add it?

on it

Re: I use Excalidraw to manage my diagrams for my blog

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Post by mlysk »

mlysk wrote: post #99
quanta-rs wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hey, I found that interesting and went looking for an RSS feed link on your site but couldn't find any. Assuming you don't have it already, do you plan to add it?

on it

https://blog.lysk.tech/rss.xml
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