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by pier25 1067 days ago
Lately for flowcharts I've been using Figma's Figjam.

https://www.figma.com/figjam/

It's really an amazing tool. It's like a whiteboard that allows you to describe processes in different ways with contextual information (images, links, bits of code, etc). I've been working on a complicated feature for my current project and it has been invaluable.

The only thing I'm missing is really a way to describe database models with relationships.

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Huge fan of Figjam here. It has the right balance of easy to use, looks good out of the box (which is an issue with most other tools like excalidraw), and tons of extra options and plugins.

For example, we were able to hook up the JIRA plugin and actually build a dependency tree of features where each node is a JIRA ticket that updates its status live from JIRA.

Blew my mind when we first realized we could do that.

Same. It’s great for this sort of stuff