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Excalidraw

Excalidraw is a whiteboard tool that lets you easily sketch diagrams that have a hand-drawn feel to them.

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    2020-04-05

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  • Tools that Make Me Productive as a Software Engineer
    However, Notion and Obsidian can only help you write documentation. Well, how about some visuals? Let's talk about Excalidraw. - Source: dev.to / about 1 month ago
  • Ask HN: Anyone use a code to mindmap/flowchart tool?
    I was happy to find out recently that there is a way to make Mermaid diagrams WYSIWYG / drag and drop editable that the open source https://excalidraw.com has and did I mention it's open source!? With a LLM, you can go full loop back to Mermaid again after a few rounds of manual editing. "What a time to be alive!". - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago
  • Show HN: Batch Image Manipulation Toolkit in Browser
    Would love more ideas for what I could add to bother, ideally mundane batch image processing tasks that can be automated. [1] https://excalidraw.com/#json=VB-95wXb8mmw-WEIe2pNu,Abn9sV1PylQ2ZPuRfwKjKQ. - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago
  • Ask HN: What development tools are you using for your current project?
    I'm working on a personal project and found myself looking for an alternative to Postman/Insomnia this morning. This made me realize I've been using the same tools for so long for work (mobile development, finance) that this project may be a good time to try out some new things. Here are a few tools that I've been using lately that I really enjoy: https://pocketbase.io/ - A dead-simple self-hosted... - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago
  • Penrose – Penrose
    Sketch easy and go back to work... https://excalidraw.com/. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago
  • Show HN: Airdraw
    Would like this on https://excalidraw.com/. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago
  • Anyone able to actually use Architecture Diagramming Tool?
    I know that it uses Excalidraw for the diagraming canvas, which uses LocalStorage to store the diagram, but this tool doesn't seem to have any persistent state. Source: 4 months ago
  • SQLSync – Stop Building Databases
    I don't know what program the author used, but I'd be surprised if he did them by hand. Excalidraw (https://excalidraw.com/) will give a very similar feel. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago
  • Ask HN: What's the best way to write a book in Markdown?
    Hey, I've wrote a few books (https://kerkour.com/books) with only markdown, https://excalidraw.com and https://figma.com I've detailed my complete setup and shared the Dockerfile that I use to convert the markdown into ebooks (EPUB, PDF and Kindle) on my blog: https://kerkour.com/book-self-publishing-pandoc. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago
  • Ask HN: Looking for applications that allow collaboration without authentication
    No login required, so I've used it a lot for remote job interviews. https://excalidraw.com/. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago
  • 10 Lesser-Known Tools and Websites to Spice Up Your Developer Toolbox
    Excalidraw is a collaborative virtual whiteboard where you can sketch diagrams, flowcharts, and wireframes. It's perfect for brainstorming and discussing design ideas with your team. - Source: dev.to / 6 months ago
  • Google Ending Support for Jamboard Devices
    I've been enjoying Excalidraw a lot[^1]. It lets you share diagrams without accounts and you can even collaborate in real-time. [^1]: https://excalidraw.com/. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago
  • Ask HN: What are some well-designed websites?
    Modern at first sight, but quickly dull the senses. Passable for their supreme usability (the Vercel dashboard works better on mobile than many websites on desktop). On the bottom right corners are the grandiloquent, the pompous, the extravagant. See them on Awwwards. Somehow, I feel a sizeable of Web3 websites fall into this, though I have only superficial exposure to them, with their overuse of transitions and... - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago
  • The Surprising Impact of Medium-Size Texts on PostgreSQL Performance (2020)
    The tables look like they have been created with https://excalidraw.com/. - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago
  • The ReMarkable Streaming Tool v2: Elevating Remote Work Efficiency
    Plug for Excalidraw: https://excalidraw.com/ https://blog.excalidraw.com/ Which, FWIW, supports Apple Pencil and iPad quite well since 2022: https://twitter.com/excalidraw/status/1491044642493992960 As well as a seemingly evergreen release of the Obsidian plugin that gets people Doge levels of Such Wow: https://www.reddit.com/r/ObsidianMD/comments/s58d2o/just_discovered_the_excalidraw_plugin_for/ Video walkthrough... - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago
  • Draw.io
    I came across Draw.io while looking for diagramming tools for algorithms interviews. While it worked well, I preferred the simplicity (and aesthetic) of Excalidraw: https://excalidraw.com/ Github: https://github.com/excalidraw/excalidraw. - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago
  • Network Diagram Software Recommendations
    So the one you will find the most on here is https://draw.io however I personally like excalidraw as it's a bit more DIY style as it tries to replicate as if your just penciling it in. So if you want a very tight one go with draw but if you want smth quick I like excalidraw. Source: 9 months ago
  • What is the fastest, easiest and cheapest way to create website mocks for non-designers
    I use this website to design my projects. Source: 9 months ago
  • [Online][Other][Mausritter][Fridays, 19:00 CEST = GMT+2]
    Time, date and format: We play every other week on Friday, 7pm CEST (= 5pm UTC+0). Click here for a quick timezone converter. The next session is this Friday (1-2 days after this post depending on your timezone). The game is mostly theater of the mind, we use Discord voice chat with a dice bot and an excalidraw whiteboard for quick sketches. It's an open table type game where people can generally sign up for each... Source: 10 months ago
  • Visual for the modules I took from AY19/20 - AY22/23
    Another app I often use for simpler graphs and visuals is Excalidraw. No need to sign up for this one. Source: 10 months ago
  • Thoughts on Svelte(Kit), one year and 3B requests later
    Actually, it looks like Excalidraw[1] to me. The shading and line style match very closely. [1] https://excalidraw.com/. - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

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5 great diagramming tools for enterprise and software architects
As your system evolves, you must update your diagrams to reflect those changes. Because Excalidraw is a browser-based tool, you have to open a browser tab and make changes visually, which can be inconvenient. You also can't easily see your history of changes. While Excalidraw has fans, I prefer a text-based diagram tool.

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