Create and share diagrams by writing sentences

May be fun to play with, but rather limited, as tools based on natural language tend to be.<p>For more flexible diagram work try the Artist-mode/ditaa combination (<a href="http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/ArtistMode" rel="nofollow">http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/ArtistMode</a>, <a href="http://ditaa.sourceforge.net" rel="nofollow">http://ditaa.sourceforge.net</a>)<p>Or course once you get really serious you'd use Graphviz <a href="http://www.graphviz.org" rel="nofollow">http://www.graphviz.org</a><p>Diagrams in text = version controlled = win!

You should note the security model here sucks. You embed your diagram with the same unique Id that is used to edit it. However, editing isn't authenticated. So anyone who can see your diagram can figure out the edit page and alter it.

<a href="http://www.websequencediagrams.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.websequencediagrams.com/</a>

That is quite cool, but I found I had to give a bit too much though to plural/singular in order to get a diagram that made sense. If it could understand that "templates" and "template" are the same thing it would make a big impact on usability.

Very cool. Here's one for Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice:<p><a href="http://diagrammr.com/edit?key=dvvAjKyVhCs" rel="nofollow">http://diagrammr.com/edit?key=dvvAjKyVhCs</a>

It maxed out at 18 sentences for me, but I didn't notice it was just overwriting the last one until after I had typed another 25 or so. D'oh.<p>Was using it to map out and notate the people I'm following on twitter: <a href="http://diagrammr.com/edit?key=dXUsqPIKKKP" rel="nofollow">http://diagrammr.com/edit?key=dXUsqPIKKKP</a>

I think I just won the game: <a href="http://diagrammr.com/png?key=dVDri1xYrbp" rel="nofollow">http://diagrammr.com/png?key=dVDri1xYrbp</a>

Also worth seeing: <a href="http://yuml.me" rel="nofollow">http://yuml.me</a>

Yup, I think the world of visual programming is approaching... I know we've tried and failed before, but all the new people trying again don't know that. <i>sssh</i><p>Pretty cool stuff.

Very cool, one problem I found is that you can't have 2 word objects.<p>Example: Router connects to Web Server<p>It uses Router and Server as the objects with "connects to Web" as the connection. Putting the 2 word object (Web Server) in quotes confused it:<p>Example: Router connects to "Web Server"<p>It should be possible to have a 2 word object with some kind of escape character to create an object with more than one word without having it think you are supplying it with part of a connection.

While very neat, I'm not sure entering these with text is the easiest approach. As soon as the automation fails to pick the right flow, you're basically stuck. A combination of text input and graphical manipulation might work better.<p>For a nice graphical approach, I've found <a href="http://lucidchart.com" rel="nofollow">http://lucidchart.com</a> to be excellent.

Anyone know of anything like this for data models? I'd love to build something like:<p><pre><code> Customers have a name, address, and phone customers have many orders orders have many items items have a name, description and price </code></pre> Something like that.

Would be great if you could export as Graphviz dot files (which it looks like it's using behind the scenes). That way it would be useful sketching out the basics but you wouldn't have to throw all that away once you needed more features.

it's like graphviz (<a href="http://www.graphviz.org" rel="nofollow">http://www.graphviz.org</a>) with natural language

"I ate a popsicle, which was melting into a pot of cold soda."<p>It thought I was melting!

Anyone knows how the natural language detection work (especially that fast). Resources?

Really cool