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Mermaid
- Conquering System Design Diagrams: My Shift to Mermaid.js
- 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.
obsidian-releases
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Ask HN: Has Anyone Trained a personal LLM using their personal notes?
[2] https://obsidian.md/
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Replatforming from Gatsby to Zola!
So I've had my fair share of personal websites and blogs. I have built them on stacks ranging from the most basic HTML and CSS, to hosted frameworks like Wordpress and Laravel, to the more modern single page applications built in Vue and React. For a simple content blog I think you can't go wrong with a Static Site Generator though. These days I am almost exclusively writing everything in Obsidian. Which is great because its all in standard markdown format. This allows for a really neat and easy content publishing workflow.
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Show HN: Godspeed is a fast, 100% keyboard oriented todo app for Mac
Consider making an Obsidian[^1] plugin, or writing to Obsidian-compatible Markdown files :)
[^1]: https://obsidian.md/
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Setting Up Obsidian for Content Planning and Project Management
Obsidian is a writing application created to allow for offline / private note taking in markdown format, in an interface that looks a lot like our regular programming IDE. It is very flexible, with a good collection of community plugins that you can use to customize Obsidian to your heart contents.
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What is Omnivore and How to Save Articles Using this Tool
Obsidian support via our Obsidian Plugin
- Tools that Make Me Productive as a Software Engineer
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Where Is Noether's Principle in Machine Learning?
Thank you!
In the beginning, I used kognise'z water.css [1], so most of the smart decisions (background/text color, margins, line spacing I think) probably come from there. Since then it's been some amount of little adjustments. The font is by Jean François Porchez, called Le Monde Livre Classic [2].
I draft in Obsidian [3] and build the site with a couple python scripts and KaTeX.
[1] https://watercss.kognise.dev/
[2] https://typofonderie.com/fr/fonts/le-monde-livre-classic
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Show HN: Reor – An AI note-taking app that runs models locally
Great job!
I played around with this on a couple of small knowledge bases using an open Hermes model I had downloaded. The “related notes” feature didn't provide much value in my experience, often the link was so weak it was nonsensical. The Q&A mode was surprisingly helpful for querying notes and providing overviews, but asking anything specific typically just resulted in less than helpful or false answers. I'm sure this could be improved with a better model etc.
As a concept, I strongly support the development of private, locally-run knowledge management tools. Ideally, these solutions should prioritise user data privacy and interoperability, allowing users to easily export and migrate their notes if a new service better fits their needs. Or better yet, be completely local, but have functionality for 'plugins' so a user can import their own models or combine plugins. A bit like how Obsidian[1] allows for user created plugins to enable similar functionality to Reor, such as the Obsidan-LLM[2] plugin.
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DevDocs
Not a complete answer, but I hope Markdown is or becomes the standard for offline docs and text for local/offline consumption. I only ever write in markdown anyway (usually with http://obsidian.md).
The closest thing I know of for a service like RSS to download documents is [Dash for macOS - API Documentation Browser, Snippet Manager - Kapeli](https://kapeli.com/dash).
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Ask HN: What do you use for note-taking or as knowledge base?
I keep absolutely everything in a single folder. Saved documents, images, movies, financial records, game saves, it doesn't matter. My hierarchical naming scheme takes care of organization. On the odd occasion I actually need a folder, I just append ".d" to the filename.
I use . as a hierarchy delimiter, so file extensions are just part of the hierarchy, and I can have multiple files with the same name except for the extension. For example, "film.spongebob.png" is a photo of spongebob, "film.spongebob.org" is a note about spongebob, and "film.spongebob.s1.e7" is my favorite episode.
I use org-roam [1] for note-taking and task/time-management. I absolutely require a plain-text system so it either had to be markdown or org-mode. Emacs was the deciding factor, else I would have still been using Dendron [2]
If OneNote is your thing, I'd probably recommend Obsidian [3] over org-roam. Despite it being the greatest program ever created, Emacs is a lot to learn "just" for taking notes.
If you like VS Code, check out Dendron. It's the one that got me into more serious PKMS instead of just chucking notes in a folder all willy nilly.
- [1]: https://www.orgroam.com/
- [2]: https://www.dendron.so/
- [3]: https://obsidian.md/
What are some alternatives?
plantuml - Generate diagrams from textual description
Trilium Notes - Build your personal knowledge base with Trilium Notes
kroki - Creates diagrams from textual descriptions!
QOwnNotes - QOwnNotes is a plain-text file notepad and todo-list manager with Markdown support and Nextcloud / ownCloud integration.
vimwiki - Personal Wiki for Vim
TiddlyWiki - A self-contained JavaScript wiki for the browser, Node.js, AWS Lambda etc.
AppFlowy - AppFlowy is an open-source alternative to Notion. You are in charge of your data and customizations. Built with Flutter and Rust.
Zettlr - Your One-Stop Publication Workbench
syncthing-android - Wrapper of syncthing for Android.
golang-nextjs-portable - Go program with embedded Next.js app.
notesnook - A fully open source & end-to-end encrypted note taking alternative to Evernote.
autocomplete - IDE-style autocomplete for your existing terminal & shell