I’ve been a long time user of Microsoft Visio for creating flow charts and workflow diagrams. Someone recently suggested diagrams.net, an open source alternative to me as a site worth taking a look at.
I’m not really an advanced user of Visio and the site does allow me to create all of the diagrams I want and is flexible enough to allow me to format them as I want.
According to the about page, diagrams.net/draw.io is an open source technology stack for building diagramming applications, and the world’s most widely used browser-based end-user diagramming software.
You can choose the save location of the file when you create a new diagram:
They also make the following promise:
We promise you we won’t hide your data from you and will always give you some way to open and edit that data, at no cost
So far I’m impressed with what I’ve seen and would be interested if anyone else has used this site and has an opinion they’re willing to share?
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