I have to admit, diagrams are a bit harder to do in text, especially interconnected graphs. That said, I could imagine something that uses triples to define a

I have to admit, diagrams are a bit harder to do in text, especially interconnected graphs. That said, I could imagine something that uses triples to define a rendered graph, similar to how RDF for the semantic web works. Say #BEGIN_GRAPH 'Paul Graham' founded YC 'Sam Altman' leads YC YC funded AirBnB YC funded Reddit AirBnB <> Accommodation #END_GRAPH Leads to a graph like [Paul Graham]----founded----->[YC]------funded----->[AirBnB]<------>[Accommodation] [Sam Altman]-----leads------->[ ] `---->[Reddit] Now that could be prettier, but I am too lazy to copy and paste box drawing characters. With a simplified form like that, all the data is in the form of subject predicate object sentences, which makes for easy parsing. The data could also be fed into a diagram making application like yED for pretty graphical output.