Friday, December 20, 2024

Plain Text Drawings#monodraw.helftone.com

When writing some documentation for work this week I purchased Monodraw to create some plain text diagrams.

It's an awesome tool. I kind of want to invest some time into it to get better at plain text drawings. There's an art form to it.

I also want to sometimes do some plain text diagrams on the blog. They output really nicely in code blocks.

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│   ┌──────────────┐   │            ╱           ╲
│   │ Hello world  │   │──────────▶▕             ▏
│   └──────────────┘   │            ╲           ╱
│                      │       ┌──────────────────────┐
│                      │       │Plain text is awesome!│
└──────────────────────┘       └──────────────────────┘
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