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That's what I do. Boxes and lines between them. It helps a lot when thinking up new concepts and brainstorming too, so that the tool doesn't slow you down.

I use Freeform now, which is super simple but works. Mark two objects and cmd-click/right click, then click "add connecting line".

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One step further: Powerpoint. Sooner or later the diagrams will usually be needed in a presentation. Having them in a presentable format saves another step, and is a constant reminder to produce something worth presenting.

Those diagrams that don't end up in presentations will be write-only anyway, and could be in any random format. No-one is going to read them.

That’s a really good point, I’ve had to redo diagrams before to fit them into a presentation, and because they were sprawling all over the place in Figma or Miro, they required extra work to fit correctly and be readable. Powerpoint or Google Slides forces you to concision and the aspect ratio of the slide, for good or bad.

Freeform is basically a simplified Keynote, which it is based on. I used Keynote before. Might actually return to it since Freeform is pretty basic right now (it's pretty new).

Is it Freeform as the Apple Freeform? I tried it last week to create high Level design, still not as smooth as I expected. Mainly the text editing flow feels not seamless yet, the deal breaker was I couldn't get the file successfully shared thru any available options.

To be fair it's still in its early of its time, I'll wait bit longer.

Apple Freeform yes, comes with macOS. Before that I used Keynote.

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