Excalidraw Diagrams
Use this for fast visual thinking. Do not use it as the final route for journal figures unless the user explicitly wants hand-drawn style.
Workflow
- Identify the core idea, audience, and stage of work.
- Sketch the smallest useful diagram: actors, stages, flows, dependencies, or uncertainties.
- Keep text sparse and readable.
- Use visual grouping to show alternatives, open questions, and next decisions.
- Export or save the editable Excalidraw artifact when possible.
Best Uses
- Early system architecture.
- Research plan brainstorming.
- Method alternatives before committing to a formal figure.
- Meeting explanation diagrams.
- Visual comparison of competing workflows.
Boundaries
- For editable method figures, prefer
drawio-diagrams. - For source-controlled architecture diagrams, prefer
d2-diagramsorplantuml-diagrams. - For README flowcharts, prefer
markdown-mermaid-writing.