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Over last 10 years have used Freemind & (last few years) Xmind to kind of make superfast flow charts in the tools dressed as mindmap tools. So i can see the appeal of knoted here for quick jotting down of thought flows.

But have also enjoyed making nice diagrams in mermaidjs especially the sequence diagrams. Prefer markdown to digram for code maintainability. Was recently seeing a youtube talk from C4 author on composable diagrams and agree to a lot of what was said in the talk. Src: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Za1-v4Zkq5E

Keyboard to diagram is much faster than mouse based diagram tools and have found them better for long term use cases. Quick diagraming in excalidraw or figjam doesn't hurt though when brainstorming especially with not very technical folks as they can easily contribute.




Mermaid? I like mermaid, but it is not fun, it is not fast and it is not comfortable, especially when you have bigger diagrams or must edit them.




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