Question for you nerds: is there something like a "sketchpad" made for coders where you can place code snippets on a canvas and then write notes over them with how they connect to eachother or something? I've been doing it with screenshots but file references or raw text would be better.
This is for the purpose of mapping out legacy code that I have to learn. It's the best way to do it that I've come across so far.
@RustyCrab A printer, pencil, and scanner? Although that does give me an idea for a visual / textual hybrid editor where you can place boxes of source code that get parsed to add connectors to them.
@sepples ive seen jupyter before but I don't know how that would relate to this. Isn't that for interactive python calculations? This would be more like
@dragnucs no its like plopping down huge blobs of existing code on a canvas and then drawing arrows between them. It's nothing formal at all but it helps a lot. It could be done with any editor like excalidraw but it would be helpful if it understood code or basic syntax.
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