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Excalidraw's AI Tool – useful and underrated
tl;dr Easy 10x on generating sequence diagrams, flow charts and system diagrams.
I tweeted about using Excalidraw's AI tool recently: https://x.com/olshansky/status/1824168148867629340
I have a hunch that because it's not a standalone tool or a GitHub repo, it didn't get the love it deserved.
Aside from ChatGPT/Claude and Supermaven/Copilot, this has been one of the best AI tools I use on an almost daily basis.
Anytime I need to build a diagram, the first 50% (if not more) is done with this tool. I even have the option of a mermaid diagram for our docs or a pretty diagram for marketing material.
Like any AI tool, don't expect it to be perfect or get you 100% of the way there, but it will definitely save you some time and solve the blank page problem.
- purple-leafy 2y agoThis is an advert
- exhaze 2y agoI checked out the poster: 1. They don't seem to have any affiliation with the company 2. Excalidraw doesn't seem to have any sort of affiliate program 3. "Why is Excalidraw so good?" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29109995 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29109995 I think a lot of people just like it that much
- ssousa666 2y agoThe AI tool is actually quite good, too. I use it to generate sequence diagrams pretty frequently.
- dansult 2y agoI use mermaid.js a lot but not enough that I an fluent in the DSL. So I pump things into excalidraw's AI and tell it to create the mermaid chart. It gets my 80% of the way and I tweak/extend from there. If nothing else its awesome for that
- Olshansky 2y agoHaha, appreciate the extra checks. Sometimes you get so much value out of a free service you feel the need to tell the world :)