Ive been running a home lab for awhile and its gotten pretty sophisticated over the years. About to destroy and rebuild. As such I want to document things and plan it all out nicely (I’ve been inspired by posts here!)

My problem is most likely my usage of a Mac these days. Visio doesnt work on the mac in a thick client, and the web client is pretty cool, but it’s quite confining in terms of shapes. Curious what you guys are using with the logo’ed graphics for every vendor/brand etc. Ideally something free, but not opposed to paying for a quality service/software.

Thanks in advance!

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I use the Draw.Io desktop app, not the web version for obvious reason.

Use to do it on Visio… But well Microsoft destroyed it.

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Visio has been pretty much standard in all my work roles for rack elevation and network diagram drawings, so I use it for home stuff too

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Excalidraw, Open source, easy to use and no paywall. You can export your files and save them locally as well.

https://excalidraw.com/

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I like D2 because it is declarative and I can keep the model in source control.

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Yeah, this. I’m a big fan of the “diagrams as code” things like d2, mermaid, plantuml, nomnoml and all that. Obsidian has render plugins too so you can easily visualize things.

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My brain.

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Lol 😂 that’s what I was guna say

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