ASCII diagram creator (asciiflow.com)

I like this. I like this a lot. This is perfect for someone who just needs to get a few thoughts together and can't be bothered with firing up Dia or something similarly bloated.

If this was a standalone application it would replace my notepad usage for notetaking 100%...

I know this is a beta, but one suggestion: have an option to export the HTML wrapped in a div/span/pre/<something> which has a monospace font style, this would make it truly effortless to export the html and save it as-is.

Also I couldn't figure out how the arrow cursor worked or what one was supposed to do with it.

my remarks aside, very cool app!

Needless to say, Emacs can do it (M-x artist-mode)

Awesome! Bookmarked for future usage.

Oh wow, nice.

Just what I needed to make a directory tree example for a readme.txt

Too clever. Can VIM do it too?

Some ideas for more features:

    ,----------------.
    | Round-cornered |
    |      boxes     |
    `----------------'

    -+
     |
     >- Stretchy braces
     |
    -+

Also, GUI control mockups:

    ( Buttons )

    [ Dropdown lists |v]

    [X] Checkboxes

    (o) Radio buttons

    Sliders: ---|---------- 

    +-------------^
    | Scroll bars #
    |             #
    |             |
    |             v
    <----######-->

    Spin-boxes: [ 37.0 |:]

...you get the idea.

Being able to select drawn items and move them around after the fact would also be great.

I'm really enjoying this, the utter simplicity of it has a certain appeal. I would really like the ability to add columns / rows at the cursor position, though. Moving things around / feature heaven / hell would be fun, but that I think would be a net improvement without breaking the simplicity at all.

Perl has a module called 'Graph::Easy' which can create a diagram from a graph automatically, and can also do ASCII-output. See http://bloodgate.com/graph-demo for an interactive demo.

  [Sun] -- [Pear]
  [Apple] --> [Pear]
  [Pear] -- [fruit] --> [Pineapple]
  [Pear] --> [Cherry]
  [fruit] ==> [Done]

Renders to:

                +--------+
                | Cherry |
                +--------+
                  ^
                  |
                  |
  +-------+     +--------+     +-------+     +-----------+
  | Apple | --> |  Pear  | --- | fruit | --> | Pineapple |
  +-------+     +--------+     +-------+     +-----------+
                  |              H
                  |              H
                  |              v
                +--------+     +-------+
                |  Sun   |     | Done  |
                +--------+     +-------+

  (user@air) /Users/user $ dot -Tascii

  Format: "ascii" not recognized. Use one of: bmp
  cgimage cmap cmapx cmapx_np dot eps exr fig
  gd gd2 gif gv imap imap_np ismap jp2 jpe jpeg
  jpg pct pdf pict plain plain-ext png ps ps2 psd
  sgi svg svgz tga tif tiff tk vml vmlz vrml wbmp
  x11 xdot xlib canon

This would make a good nethack level editor!

Just needed this the other day and found this application: http://www.jave.de/ More features, but also feels more complex.

Screenshot: http://www.jave.de/screenshots/60rc2_screenshot.png

What about ASCIIO? It's great because it allows you to move and connect the blocks after you created them. It's great to document source code.

http://search.cpan.org/dist/App-Asciio/lib/App/Asciio.pm

Must you young'uns always try and reinvent the wheel?

Thedraw FTW: http://www.syaross.org/thedraw/

Now get off my LAN

Honestly? This is the first online wireframing tool that I've been able to use and instantly display what I want.

Great work!

Reminds me of TheDraw from back in the day:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheDraw

Very nice website!

I tried to do the same with a 28x4 canvas with unicode for twitter, but client and host unicode rendering differences turn it into an unintelligible mess most of the time (www.draw140.com)

Cool! This is something I wanted to have and had started making for myself. Mine is much less useful than asciiflow but the thing I like most about it is that it allows writing and drawing more in the way I use my notebook. It's easy to write little blocks of text that aren't aligned along the left margin.

Feature request: In text mode, assign <enter> to move the cursor down a line and to the column that text entry began.

Here's my prototype: http://norstrulde.org/tty/tty.html

This is very cool. And you can quickly create mockups for roguelike levels.

                                     +-------+     +------------+                                   
            +---------------+        |       |     |     >      |     -4/124                        
            |               |        ||   <  | +---+%%%         |     15/15                         
            |   >   =       |        |       | |   |%     \     |                                   
            |               +--------+   %   | |   |     !!     |                                   
            |         %     |        |       | |   |            |      +----+                       
            |     %         |        |       | |   |            |      |%   |                       
            +---------------+        |  %%   +-+   +-----+------+      |    |                       
                                     |       |           |             |   >|                       
                                     |       |           |             |"   |                       
                                     |   %   |           |             +-+--+                       
                                     +----+--+           +---------+     |                          
                      +---------+         |                        |     |                          
                      |((       |         |    +------------+  +---+-----+--+                       
                      | ( O     |         |    |~~ P        |  |            |                       
                      |  @K  %  |         |    |~~~~     <  +--+      %   / |                       
                      |   %  Y  |         |    |~~~         |  +------------+                       
                      |   %   Y |         |    |            |                                       
                      |    c    Y---------+----+      ]     |   Slow Poisoned                       
                      |         |              |            +                                       
                      +---------+              |            |                                       
                                               |   <        |                                       
                                               +------------+          D:24                         
                You teleport.                                                                       
                The centaur shoots an arrow of flame. The arrow hits you.                           
                You die...                                                                          
                Xom says:"I guess I need a new plaything now."

This is one of the best things I've seen all week. I hate traditional flowcharting tools, they're wonky and a pain when you have to convert them to anything else. ASCII is the portable data format basically.