[mnsc]

> Edward Tufte's. Beautiful diagrams

Did you mean _Beautiful Evidence_?

I also think diagram skills are impressive but almost every time I try to get my understanding into a single page diagram I just gets lost along the way and the resulting diagram lacks just One Thing to make it really illustrative but I can't pin it down.

[canadian_tired]

My bad. What I should have said was "Edward Tufte's books. They contain beautiful diagrams". LOL...Didn't know about "Beautiful Evidence" until you mentioned it.

I know exactly what you are feeling trying to get that One Thing. It's what separates the good stuff from the great. I don't try to show everything on one diagram... even if it fits contextually. If you force people to have to think too much when they try to unpack your diagram, they lose interest. Draw, edit, adjust. After many years, I have a few "general starting points" in my head, and go from there. I still need to edit a lot...but I get there faster these days.