Asciiflow

There's also Monodraw, ASCII drawing with a native MacOS GUI and more advanced tools. https://monodraw.helftone.com/

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For what it's worth, I keep a file in my home folder containing some box drawing characters. It's not super fast to draw by copy-paste but the result usually looks quite nice. ─ │ ┌ ┬ ┐ ┄ ┆ ├ ┼ ┤ ╲ ╱ ┈ ┊ └ ┴ ┘ ━ ┃ ┏ ┳ ┓ ┏ ┯ ┓ ┏ ┳ ┓ ┏ ┯ ┓ ┅ ┇ ┣ ╋ ┫ ┣ ┿ ┫ ┠ ╂ ┨ ┠ ┼ ┨ ┉ ┋ ┗…

The problem with visual diagramming tools as far back as Visio, is how much of a time suck they are even for simple diagrams. If you're one of those folks who manages to stick with one long enough to create a stable of templates for common diagrams, you can become somewhat more efficient, but it's always going to be fiddly. I've embraced the diagrams-as-code world, with graphviz, plantuml, Structurizr DSL, AsciiDoctor Diagram, Mermaid, and WebSequenceDiagrams all having a place. It's…