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While the charts are nice for illustrating the flows, they could use a little bit more love. The process flowchart doesn't need to have any crossing lines, but it has multiple. While removing the crossings is a small change, it reduces cognitive load considerably.

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This is my gripe with mermaid, and is where excalidraw really took over the space. Sure mermaid can be stuck in any text file, but it's not worth the tradeoff of the diagram being unreadable.

Yea I should have used excalidraw instead of mermaid, thats on me. I am trying to focus on writing good content and I try to not get stuck on the stuff I'm bad at which is making nicer charts.

Hey, getting the work out there is always better than it sitting in the drafts waiting to be perfected! Thanks for the great article.

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