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> Plain text has been around for decades and it's here to stay. Monodraw allows you to easily create text-based art – like diagrams, layouts, flow charts and vi
by Dewie 12y ago
> Plain text has been around for decades and it's here to stay. Monodraw allows you to easily create text-based art – like diagrams, layouts, flow charts and visually represent algorithms, data structures, binary formats and more. Because it's all just text, it can be easily embedded almost anywhere.
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> Monodraw is designed for the Mac from the ground up – everything from the text layout engine to the interface is made to take advantage of OS X.
Is that perhaps a philosophical disconnect, or is it just me?
Granted, the most significant thing is that files created with this tool can be used anywhere else. Not that the editing experience of those files will be the same everywhere.
- milen 12y agoYou're quite right that the most important thing about the tool is that you can take the exported plain text result and put it in your code, web pages, etc. But when it comes to actually creating the content, we want to provide the best user experience. Monodraw can be thought of as a drawing app which was designed assuming the output would be ASCII. In my view, those aspects are orthogonal - you can have a hard to use tool that exports into a standard format or an excellent tool that produces proprietary files.