AsciiFlow
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AsciiFlow. Is a browser-based editor for drawing simple boxes-and-arrows diagrams as plain ASCII.
Blurb
Infinite ASCII diagrams, save to Google Drive, resize, freeform draw, and export straight to text/html.
Summary
When it helps: quick architecture napkin sketches, Slack/PR comments, or README boxes where a PNG feels heavy and you already live in monospace.
Why hold: drawings are not structured source; resizing, diffs, and refactors are painful; output must render in a monospace font or alignment breaks; no real collaboration or export story compared to Diagramming tools you version-control.
Graduate to: Mermaid when the diagram should live in Markdown/docs and evolve with the repo; Draw.io when you need layers, icons, or shareable .drawio files.
Details
| Topic | Notes |
|---|---|
| Output | Copy-paste ASCII; treat as disposable unless you snapshot it |
| Rendering | Test in target font (GitHub, terminal, email) before publishing |
| Maintenance | Manual edits only, no codegen from code or IaC |