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What free or open source tools are you using on small to medium scale projects to help you noodle out your thoughts into design and architecture?

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2021-11-03

Obsidian.md Excalidraw Roam Research draw.io Notion Atom
Note Taking Knowledge Management Task Management
  1. Obsidian.md Landing Page
    Obsidian.md Landing Page
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    Obsidian.md

    A second brain, for you, forever. Obsidian is a powerful knowledge base that works on top of a local folder of plain text Markdown files.
    Https://obsidian.md/ for documenting notes for yourself.

    #Knowledge Management #Knowledge Base #Markdown Editor 1454 social mentions

  2. Excalidraw Landing Page
    Excalidraw Landing Page
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    Excalidraw

    Excalidraw is a whiteboard tool that lets you easily sketch diagrams that have a hand-drawn feel to them.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    Https://excalidraw.com/ for a whiteboard with collaboration support.

    #Sketching #Digital Whiteboard #Digital Drawing And Painting 208 social mentions

  3. Roam Research Landing Page
    Roam Research Landing Page
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    Roam Research

    A note-taking tool for networked thought

    #Note Taking #Todos #Task Management 101 social mentions

  4. draw.io Landing Page
    draw.io Landing Page
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    draw.io

    Online diagramming application
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    I like https://draw.io. If you use VSCode, there is a really nice extension that implements draw.io. https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=hediet.vscode-drawio.

    #Diagrams #Flowcharts #Wireframing 714 social mentions

  5. Notion Landing Page
    Notion Landing Page
    5

    Notion

    All-in-one workspace. One tool for your whole team. Write, plan, and get organized.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    When I'm ready to start putting it together, I either keep it low-tech and just write things up in a text editor (I like atom), or lately I've been really enjoying Notion as well. Lot of flexibility, can embed stuff like excalidraw diagrams directly in the page.

    #Productivity #Work Collaboration #Note Taking 438 social mentions

  6. Atom Landing Page
    Atom Landing Page
    6

    Atom

    At GitHub, we’re building the text editor we’ve always wanted: hackable to the core, but approachable on the first day without ever touching a config file. We can’t wait to see what you build with it.
    When I'm ready to start putting it together, I either keep it low-tech and just write things up in a text editor (I like atom), or lately I've been really enjoying Notion as well. Lot of flexibility, can embed stuff like excalidraw diagrams directly in the page.

    #Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 152 social mentions

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