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I use whiteboarding too, but yeah, it's basically a snapshot / dump of institutional knowledge that resides in an individual's head. Updated my post to mention that I'm looking for something electronic / scalable

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Depending upon the situation it can make sense to just take a picture of the whiteboard with a camera (or use a smartboard) and save that image somewhere. At that point the diagram isn't 'editable' per-say, but that can still be great solution.

I definitely prefer something editable. The use-case is if someone improves the system, then this visual diagram needs to be updated.

I want to avoid the situation where the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing. Any person on the team doesn't have to go hunt down the person who knows the system, but can just look up the diagram at a high level and know where to start.

There are definitely some apps in this space but unfortunately I don’t remember any, on top of my head now

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