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Ask HN: How do you create diagrams in documentation?
- rsmaniak 13y agoGliffy(www.gliffy.com) works great for me.
- bsaunder 13y agoInkscape
- radq 13y agoI use Dia: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Dia https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Dia
- fromdoon 13y agoI had started with using MS Visio at my job. Though I had absolutely no experience in making diagrams, Visio was quite easy to get started and become comfortable in quick time. The downside of course is that it is not free. I would also like to know open source alternatives to MS Visio. I can see that Ubuntu 12.04 comes with Libre Draw, but I haven't tried it yet.
- ahtomski 13y agoHave you tried UMlet? It's limited but great for nailing UML diagrams.
- ahtomski 13y agoYeah I quite like Gliffy. More often than not, we take photos of whiteboards and email them round the team.
- phantom_oracle 13y agoLibreOffice Draw is reasonable if you are coming from Linux. Otherwise there is GIMP too. +1 to all the other open source solutions mentioned here.
- alok-g 13y agoMicrosoft Word and PowerPoint. Sometimes Excel when diagram could be made by drawing borders around cells and resizing rows and columns as per need. This helps when unplanned non-linear horizontal and vertical scaling is needed while making the diagram. The SmartArt concept they introduced was quite promising, though I find the current state of it lagging. I am sad that it never picked up.
- chatmasta 13y agoBalsamiq
- atsaloli 13y agoBlockdiag
- hnjake 13y agoGive www.draw.io a go. I have used it a few times at work.
- BraveNewCurency 13y agoIf you want a diagram you can embed in text and check into source control, take a look at GraphViz. http://www.graphviz.org/ http://www.graphviz.org/ You can even embed it in other things, like Wikis. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GraphViz https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GraphViz