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I was hoping something better than Mermaid. Mermaid is great, but esp. its Gantt chart is too simplistic.

Hey wiradikusuma, thanks for the reference to Mermaid. I've been looking for a week for something like this to let us drop diagrams into our internal website. This looks like it will do about everything we want.

Your point about Gantt carts may be right for you, but for our simple timelines it's good. The real winner for me was the state diagrams. Thanks!

Have you considered PlantUML[0]? There's plenty of examples on planttext[1].

It's my go-to tool whenever I need to document something visually, whenever I have a meeting with my peers and I want to get them quickly up to speed with the process I have in mind, I just create a quick sequence diagram and we can hit the ground running.

[0] https://plantuml.com/state-diagram [1] https://www.planttext.com/

I've been using a product Websequencediagrams, to create the sequence pictures. There is issues around the licensing, and the company wants to sell a a service. I'm in a lab well behind secure firewalls, so a non starter.

There is also the desire to have documents have more types of pictures/ drawings. A Swiss Army knife of drawing tools. In our case it's ok if some of the styles are not as powerful.

Thanks for the link!

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