What is the crowd's opinion of Lucidchart?

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Lucidchart is what the company I work for is slowly standardizing on. You can call up any icons you'd like through a search interface, and it draws very much like Visio. Best of all, each user on the paid version can have their own folders on the site that they can choose to share or not share, so if you have some topologies that aren't done yet or have some network diagrams that certain groups don't need access to, you can build that permission structure in the paid version. It will also export to Visio VDX format (very slowly).

Free version is limited to 5 active projects at once, Only 60 items per drawing, and will not export to Visio.

>Having a Zoom meeting with a dozen or so people is difficult.

No it isn't. I have Zoom meetings daily with 12 or more people. We do everything from code reviews, to cross training, to architecture work using tools like LucidChart.com etc..

I've been using LucidChart.com. You can easily import any existing visio shapes you have downloaded. All the shapes I've grabbed from VisoCafe over the years loaded right in.

I'm likely going to be working remotely during the week out of state but doing some online consulting for another company via software apps (office.com, lucidchart.com, etc.) and conference calls through ring, slack, and teams. I would also be using this for TV/movies during my downtime. I have a MacBook Air (2015 version) which I can carry with me as well as a Mac Pro (at the house). Assuming the iPad Pro is sufficient for this. Which keyboard would be best?

Oh! excalidraw.com is great for quick paper style diagrams. I have used it a fair bit. The roam integration is good. But I always revert back to draw.io because it's open sourced, simple to use and just works :D
if you are looking for more, a paid option would be lucidchart.com

PS: I second the learningdita.com suggestion. The company that owns it, easyDITA.com, has a free trial you can mess around with.

Other important tools with free basic offerings include Confluence, Salesforce (free dev edition), and Lucidchart.com

Good luck!

I got the idea after reading about construction grammar, combined with a data structure I've been studying. The vertices could be any "construct", and any edge could connect to or from vertices or other edges. I use lucidchart.com for diagramming, which makes it fairly easy to draw the shapes and arrows. There are multiple ways of representing the same thing. There could be a way to represent multiple ways of representing one thing, but I get bored before that level of detail. Need better tooling for that.

ESSENTIAL TOOLS? Relevant to most types of technical writing?

Basic Screen Capturing:

• SnagIt (or one of a dozen free tools)
  

Basic Authoring:

• MS Word or Google Docs
  

Basic Diagramming:

• Visio or Lucidchart.com
  

Basic Repository:

• Confluence

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IMO:

Advanced Authoring:

• FrameMaker
• Madcap Flare