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There's also Monodraw, ASCII drawing with a native MacOS GUI and more advanced tools.

https://monodraw.helftone.com/




Monodraw is incredible, and vastly more useful than ASCIIFlow just by dint of the fact that objects remain objects after drawn - you can drag them around and the graph remains intact.


ASCIIFlow does keep models of drawn boxes, lines, and arrows. If you use the "resize/move boxes and lines" tool, you can adjust drawn objects.


Ah, so it does. Not especially well, but it does. My mistake!


Author here - it does but it doesn't, which is why it doesn't always work so well. It never actually keeps track of the shapes in a seperate data model - the text itself is the only data model. When you resize, it retraces out the lines that need editing. I did this as the expected use case is for diagrams in code, where diagrams may be copy pasted in and out of the tool and I'd lose any underlying models that I was working with. For fun: https://github.com/lewish/asciiflow2/blob/master/js-lib/draw...


Grateful user here. I've relied on ASCIIFlow for all the diagrams in my Internet drafts since IETF 88. Truly an essential tool in my arsenal.


Wow - I just love this! Thanks very much for the info - feels like a new pair of shoes for 2018 (coming from 15 years of omnigraffle)...


I've been using Monodraw for awhile now and it's been great!




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