Open-source drawing tool – Excalidraw

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  • excalidraw

    Virtual whiteboard for sketching hand-drawn like diagrams

  • drawio-desktop

    Official electron build of draw.io

    • 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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  • Mermaid

    Edit, preview and share mermaid charts/diagrams. New implementation of the live editor.

    • 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... )

  • obsidian-excalidraw-plugin

    A plugin to edit and view Excalidraw drawings in Obsidian

    • For those using Obsidian, the Excalidraw plugin plays really well within it.

    https://github.com/zsviczian/obsidian-excalidraw-plugin

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