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3,469 | 9,522 | |
5.0% | 1.9% | |
9.1 | 9.9 | |
1 day ago | 5 days ago | |
TypeScript | TypeScript | |
MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Mermaid
- Mermaid Chart, a Markdown-like tool for creating diagrams, raises $7.5M
- FLaNK Stack Weekly 22 January 2024
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LLMs and Programming in the first days of 2024
I'm not OP, but I just ask GPT to turn code or process or whatever else into a mermaid diagram. Most of the time I don't even need to few-shot prompt it with examples. Then you dump the resulting text into something like https://mermaid.live/ and voilà.
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Open-source drawing tool – Excalidraw
I like excalidraw for live discussions but if I want to make more detailed or better looking diagrams, I really enjoy these two tools:
- For drag-and-drop/WYSIWYG, I really like DrawIO. They have a web version https://app.diagrams.net/ but I strongly recommend the desktop version https://github.com/jgraph/drawio-desktop/releases/
- For text-as-diagram, I think Mermaid wins this by default since GitHub added markdown support for these: https://mermaid.live/ (This was github's announcement https://github.blog/2022-02-14-include-diagrams-markdown-fil... )
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Nomnoml
You can export to PNG and other formats in the Mermaid editor https://mermaid.live/
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Sequence diagrams, the only good thing UML brought to software development
with a fancier image for the customer than a box. Try it out at https://mermaid.live (linked from https://mermaid.js.org/)
Or this one, from a service I worked on a couple of years ago:
sequenceDiagram
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Show HN: Databasediagram.com – Private, Text to Entity-Relationship Diagram Tool
ditto, it's very impressive with all types of mermaid [0] diagrams! even helps w/ styling and formatting tweaks. It's helped me so much with better 'coverage' and maintainability on diagrams for projects I'm working on.
- structural diagram drawing helper plugin
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Is there an AI that can generate logical diagrams or er diagrams like these?
You can ask it for mermaid code. I just had it generate the following two diagrams, you can input the code into https://mermaid.live to check them out.
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The "Show Me" plugin lets GPT-4 create diagrams and is pretty neat
You can ask gpt to output as (mermaid / graphvis digraph) format via a code block. Then view inside a valid viewer like https://mermaid.live or https://dreampuf.github.io/GraphvizOnline
Zettlr
- Obsidian 1.5 Desktop (Public)
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Zettlr VS Einwurf - a user suggested alternative
2 projects | 20 Dec 2023
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Why note-taking apps don’t make us smarter
I can't recommend the Zettlekasten Method enough: https://zettelkasten.de/introduction/
You can do it with index cards or you can use software to practice the method and grow your note collection. I now prefer Zettlr (https://www.zettlr.com) after using Joplin (https://joplinapp.org), which are both FOSS.
One of the core strategies of the Zettlekasten Method is to link notes to each other. That's how knowledge grows: connections and synthesis (internalization/application of the connections)
Here's a 3-year-old video on the method that serves as a good primer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFZHuWLA09M
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Beaver Notes: A Privacy-Focused Open-Source Note-Taking App
I’ve been using zettlr [1] for the same thing. Been pretty happy with it.
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A collection of useful Mac Apps
Zettlr - Price: Free (with optional donations) Markdown editor for Mac that features a user-friendly interface and advanced features for writers.
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Notion alternative: AppFlowy vs Outline vs Affine?
I discovered recently [logseq](https://logseq.com/) and it's beautiful. I use quite a lot Zettlr for taking notes on concepts and ideas but I have to say that logseq has become my starting point for daily, short, notes and tasks. I need to work on an integration with Zettlr however, I like the possibility of the latter to organize and connect the texts, especially convenient when writing essays.
- How would you read your files if Obsidian disappeared?
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Any alternatives to Obsidian that are not built on Electron?
Zettlr - https://github.com/Zettlr/Zettlr
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I read the top ten Zettelkasten articles on Hacker News so you can do something more wholesome with your day
GitLab software engineer Tomas Vik runs through the slip-box method, based on Sönke Ahrens's book, How to Take Smart Notes. He recommends creating individual plain text (markdown) files and gives clear examples of how this is structured. He used Zettlr as his markdown-enabled text editor of choice, but mentions alternative apps that do similar things. As a bonus, there's a follow-up post a year later, in which the author describes how his process has changed (not much) and why he now uses Logseq instead of Zettlr.
What are some alternatives?
plantuml - Generate diagrams from textual description
logseq - A local-first, non-linear, outliner notebook for organizing and sharing your personal knowledge base. Use it to organize your todo list, to write your journals, or to record your unique life.
kroki - Creates diagrams from textual descriptions!
Trilium Notes - Build your personal knowledge base with Trilium Notes
obsidian-export - Rust library and CLI to export an Obsidian vault to regular Markdown
marktext - 📝A simple and elegant markdown editor, available for Linux, macOS and Windows.
obsidian-pandoc - Pandoc document export plugin for Obsidian (https://obsidian.md)
obsidian-releases - Community plugins list, theme list, and releases of Obsidian.
QOwnNotes - QOwnNotes is a plain-text file notepad and todo-list manager with Markdown support and Nextcloud / ownCloud integration.
zotero - Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, annotate, cite, and share your research sources.
obsidian-kanban - Create markdown-backed Kanban boards in Obsidian.