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603 points mafro | 5 comments | 27 Aug 25 10:54 UTC | HN request time: 0.209s | source
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randomgermanguy ◴[27 Aug 25 11:33 UTC] No.45038211[source]▶
Bought this couple months ago, and am now always looking for more ways to include this for inline-documentation.

the fact i can export to clipboard and re-import it and reconstruct all the shapes etc. almost flawlessly is such a big win.

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1. Etheryte ◴[27 Aug 25 11:37 UTC] No.45038246[source]▶
On one hand, this could provide a lot of value as some things are just plain hard to explain using only words. On the other hand, aren't you worried about when someone else comes along and needs to update one of those comments? If they're not aware of this tool, it's either going to be incredibly tedious or simply not going to happen.
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2. dsego ◴[27 Aug 25 11:47 UTC] No.45038344[source]▶
Add a one line comment stating that it was edited by monodraw.
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3. bayindirh ◴[27 Aug 25 11:53 UTC] No.45038391[source]▶
Since they're text files, you can also say "Please copy to a ASCII diagram editor and update there (e.g. Monodraw, asciiflow, etc.)".
4. makeitdouble ◴[27 Aug 25 11:57 UTC] No.45038438[source]▶
Looks like Monodraw a mac only BTW. That should be fine if macs are mandatory for all the devs on a project, but it would otherwise create a kinda weird situation.
5. randomgermanguy ◴[27 Aug 25 12:46 UTC] No.45038913[source]▶
As the other commenters put it, i dont think this is a huge issue. I usually use this for architecture level diagrams, and that shouldn't change often/at-all. In-case it does change, doing a new diagram is perfectly in-scope of whoevers working on that.