Diagrams on The Augmented Scholar

Excalidraw — Thinking Diagrams, Instantly

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Overview

Excalidraw removes every barrier between a diagram in your head and one on screen: open the site, draw boxes and arrows, done. The deliberate hand-drawn style signals ‘conceptual sketch’ honestly, and the .excalidraw file format is JSON you can version in Git.

Mermaid — Diagrams as Code

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Overview

Mermaid turns indented text into flowcharts, sequence diagrams, Gantt charts, and more — inside Markdown. Because GitHub, GitLab, Obsidian, and most doc systems render it natively, the diagram source lives next to the code it documents and diffs like everything else.