Hi HackerNews!<p>What do you use to create beautiful charts / diagrams etc?<p>Let's say I have an Idea on my mind what I want to illustrate to others in my blog.<p>I can use Gimp or Photopea to create everything myself, of course.<p>But are there tools which make this much easier?<p>How do you do it and what do you use?<p>Thank you :)
For some things<p><a href="https://plantuml.com/" rel="nofollow">https://plantuml.com/</a><p>I am also a fan of making complex "boxes and lines" diagrams with Microsoft Powerpoint. I wish it had something better than<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9zier_curve" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9zier_curve</a><p>for the lines between the boxes, but I can get an idea out of my head onto the page quickly with Powerpoint which is not true about "better" vector tools like Adobe Illustrator.
<a href="https://excalidraw.com/" rel="nofollow">https://excalidraw.com/</a> -> This one is cool, it makes something look like it's hand drawn.<p><a href="https://app.diagrams.net/" rel="nofollow">https://app.diagrams.net/</a> -> this one has a big shapes library, so it can go from UML to cloud diagrams, it's also easy to use and a lot of export options