I’ll try to prioritise this over the next few weeks.
Thanks for all the kind words to everyone who likes Monodraw.
(Developer of Monodraw)
- https://web.archive.org/web/20210503172024/https://fatiherik...
And the 'ascii-driven-development' blog post mentioned downthread even uses emojis.
In big ASCII letters on the landing page: Unleash your ideas with ASCII [] MonoSketch is a powerful ASCII sketching and diagramming app that lets you effortlessly transform your ideas into visually stunning designs.
:-)
echo "[ Berlin ] -- train --> [ Bonn ] [ Bonn ] --> [ Berlin ]" | graph-easy -as boxart ┌───────────────────┐
∨ │
┌────────┐ train ┌──────┐
│ Berlin │ ───────> │ Bonn │
└────────┘ └──────┘
1. When working with small rectangles, I had trouble getting the rectangle to move instead of enlarge. It looks like holding down the mouse button for a second makes moving more reliable. The UI should make it clearer what I'm actually doing.
2. If I open MonoSketch in another tab, I can't make a second diagram at the same time as the first -- there seems to be one shared context between tabs. I would like to be able to make a new diagram separate from my current one.
Great little app. And it's $10, once. Hardly breaking the bank.
I think in this case the name alone is not enough to suspect a replacement; perhaps it’s just a similar product in the same domain (_mono_space visual editors).
- Text searchable
- Easy to adjust
- Supported by a surprising number of markdown viewers.
graph TD
User -->|Enters Credentials| Frontend[React App]
Frontend -->|POST /auth| API[NodeJS Service]
API -->|Query| DB[(PostgreSQL)]
API --x|Invalid| Frontend
DB -->|User Object| API
API -->|JWT| Frontend
+-------+ +-------------+ +---------+
| User | | React App | | NodeJS |
+-------+ +-------------+ +---------+
| | |
| Enters Creds | POST /auth |
|--------------------->|---------------------->|
| | |
| Invalid | <-- [X] Error -----|
|<---------------------| |
| | Query DB |
| |---------------------->| [ DB ]
ASCII to me represents something that can work in my term, in my source code, checks into git a bit more sanely than binary does, etc.
I still quite like it
(Not to take anything away from Monosketch, which is cool.)
A car has had largely the same shape since its creation, indeed since antiquity.
Sometimes, a problem space is explored to most humans' needs, and no more innovation is needed.
(edit: this said, I'm hopeful there is something new, and people like Bret Victor may show the way with things like https://dynamicland.org/ )
This is not historical reasons, this is just that moving my hands from the keyboard to the mouse is inefficient and technically unnecessary. I prefer mouse only on niche (for me) tasks like screenshot cropping or something.
I am about to test out Niri on my laptop and I expect to be quite pleased with the change.