Flowcharts, states, sequence mapping

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I’m mapping out some fairly complex workflows with materials being split and coming back together, jumping between devices and temperatures, all in a process that has some 150+ steps in the manual SOP. Flow charts are great but I find myself heavily annotating and color coding to convey all the information required. I’ve started playing with the sequence diagram maker on mermaid.live but it’s missing a few capabilities that would take it from good to really good. Has anyone found another kind of chart that works well for mapping complex workflows and/or tools to make it easy (and ideally free) to do digitally?

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Mermaid is the closest thing that I’ve seen but I agree it’s suboptimal. I bet it’s worth to try making something yourself! Mermaid is open source so you already have somewhere to start. Would be happy to give feedback on anything you make.

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u can also try YAML

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One option if you’re open to a more code-first paradigm is https://d2lang.com/. Haven’t had the need for it myself, but it might be more manageable than fully visual editors for complex workflows.

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This looks interesting because of the animations :heart_eyes:

Thanks for sharing

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Yeah lol the animations alone are enough to get me to try it

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Could you say more about using YAML for this? I’ve used it for software config files but nothing beyond that

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Lucid or miro are “ok” but for 150+ steps I’d think its more time than its worth