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I love this tool. This is one of those that you buy it and keep it, even if you use it once a while.



Have you had this for a long time, or are you speculating that it’s the type of software you like?

This looks very cool to me, though. If you have used it, can you share how you’ve used the generated diagrams? I can imagine a screenshot of the diagram, but the raw text would probably be too big in (e.g. a terminal).


> Have you had this for a long time ..

Similar to the OP, I've had it for years, and used it every and now then through those years.

> .. can you share how you’ve used the generated diagrams?

The website mentions exporting in text and images. I use the text importing (to clipboard), with "Trim trailing whitespace".

> .. but the raw text would probably be too big in (e.g. a terminal).

It's as big or small as you want it to be? With the obvious constraints of the different banner styles. People have had ASCII banners in consoles for decades, there's nothing new about the ASCII banners from Monodraw.


As other have mentioned I’ve used it for diagrams in code comments and READMEs (before GH added mermaid integration).

Making readable diagrams with 80 character width can be a challenge.

I bought it back in either late 2017 or early 2018 and used it a fair amount at first but will admit it’s been a couple years since and haven’t tried reinstalling since my last clean OS wipe.


1Passwords shows that I bought a license on April 6, 2017.


Try installing figlet, for banner text.

At its simplest:

    figlet "Text"
or use fonts

    figlet -f small "Small Text"

     ___            _ _   _____        _
    / __|_ __  __ _| | | |_   _|____ _| |_
    \__ \ '  \/ _` | | |   | |/ -_) \ /  _|
    |___/_|_|_\__,_|_|_|   |_|\___/_\_\\__|


I bought license to Monodraw in 2018 and have used it off and on since, so I can attest to GP


The website design is also neat.




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