[petepete]

I use Excalidraw extensively at work. For me, it's really close to perfection.

It has an excellent UI, selections work way better than Lucid or Figma etc, the sketchy look makes it clear designs are rough and not blueprints, it's private and loads instantly.

The one negative is that it's a pain to get the multiplayer self-hosted version running.

[ndezt]

Yeah, Excalidraw is really nice diagramming tools that I frequently used as well on my day-to-day works.

For the self-host, finally I build the solution myself so I can self-host Excalidraw and several other plaintext diagramming format while still able to working with my peers using realtime collaboration.

I open sourced it on https://github.com/andes90/collabmd, and if you want to try you can play around with the demo on https://demo.collabmd.app

[macintux]

The company where I'm contracted retired Excalidraw in favor of Lucid and, while I understand that big companies are going to go with big, enterprise-y solutions, what went from a weekly "sketch something out to help with communicating my ideas" turned into "once every few months I begrudgingly document something".

Excalidraw is excellent for low-friction sketches.

[fabbbbb]

I was surprised about that, too. Tried a bit but found very few sources online.

A self-hosted version with storage (multiplayer) plus any Claude access would be a killer setup for team planning etc and let us drop Miro.

[foobarian]

My favorite aspect of it is the keyboard shortcuts. It makes things so much faster.