I use Excalidraw to manage my diagrams for my blog
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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
#2Should be Show HN.
Now it reads like an ad for some extension to a program I've never heard about.
Re: I use Excalidraw to manage my diagrams for my blog
#3Should be Show HN . Now it reads like an ad for some extension to a program I've never heard about.
Apparently Excalidraw is An open source virtual hand-drawn style whiteboard. Collaborative and end-to-end encrypted.
Re: I use Excalidraw to manage my diagrams for my blog
#4Same. I started using it for Gethly blog. It's not perfect, some things make me crazy but overall it is better than draw.io that I used to use before. Excalidraw also has these great styles that just feel right :)
Re: I use Excalidraw to manage my diagrams for my blog
#5You can also bootstrap your initial schema with LLMs with the excalidraw MCP "app" [0]. But MCP "apps"[1] are quite new and not very well supported yet.
[0] -- https://github.com/excalidraw/excalidraw-mcp
[1] -- https://modelcontextprotocol.io/extensions/apps/overview
Re: I use Excalidraw to manage my diagrams for my blog
#6Should be Show HN . Now it reads like an ad for some extension to a program I've never heard about.
Apparently Excalidraw is An open source virtual hand-drawn style whiteboard. Collaborative and end-to-end encrypted. https://github.com/excalidraw/excalidraw
Both Excalidraw and TLDraw are the two most popular apps of their kind, simplistic whiteboard tools, so I don't think it's that surprising and I don't see any reason why this post should be a "Show HN".
TLDraw: https://www.tldraw.com/
Excalidraw: https://excalidraw.com/
Re: I use Excalidraw to manage my diagrams for my blog
#7Should be Show HN . Now it reads like an ad for some extension to a program I've never heard about.
Apparently Excalidraw is An open source virtual hand-drawn style whiteboard. Collaborative and end-to-end encrypted. https://github.com/excalidraw/excalidraw
I use Excalidraw extensively at work. For me, it's really close to perfection.
It has an excellent UI, selections work way better than Lucid or Figma etc, the sketchy look makes it clear designs are rough and not blueprints, it's private and loads instantly.
The one negative is that it's a pain to get the multiplayer self-hosted version running.
Re: I use Excalidraw to manage my diagrams for my blog
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Apparently Excalidraw is An open source virtual hand-drawn style whiteboard. Collaborative and end-to-end encrypted. https://github.com/excalidraw/excalidraw
Both Excalidraw and TLDraw are the two most popular apps of their kind, simplistic whiteboard tools, so I don't think it's that surprising and I don't see any reason why this post should be a "Show HN". TLDraw: https://www.tldraw.com/ Excalidraw: https://excalidraw.com/
For me, draw.io is still the winner, and especially now that it runs locally also on Linux. As for works in progress, I hope this one succeeds (and would also run locally at some point):
TikzMaker: https://tikzmaker.com/
Re: I use Excalidraw to manage my diagrams for my blog
#9Should be Show HN . Now it reads like an ad for some extension to a program I've never heard about.
Apparently Excalidraw is An open source virtual hand-drawn style whiteboard. Collaborative and end-to-end encrypted. https://github.com/excalidraw/excalidraw
I love excalidraw, but don't need the excalidraw+. But Excalidraw open source is the frontend only, which means I have to delete my drawings each time. So I built the backend so I can create many canvases.
Re: I use Excalidraw to manage my diagrams for my blog
#10I simply just draw in excalidraw and take a ss and past it in my obsidian note, I have a setup that automatically parses posts from my vault and then pushes them to my site