

You’ll find it with the other libraries on the left side of your draw.io canvas. You can fill it with just what you need for your current diagram and then use it like any other library. Scratchpad is your own, individual shape library. Scratchpad can save you all that time and effort (along with your sanity).

You may even find yourself creating a custom diagram that utilizes shapes from multiple libraries, increasing your search time exponentially. You rarely need all of them, and the time spent searching through them all to repeatedly find the few you need can be frustrating, to say the least. No library card needed (and no shushing from the librarian).īut a lot of use cases include a huge amount of shapes and connectors and images. So, we mentioned draw.io’s libraries, which you can easily use to build virtually any diagram your imagination can conjure. You’ve got to do the prep work before anything hits the pan. Slicing the carrots, dicing the onions, mincing the garlic ingredients don’t come properly sliced, portioned, and ready to cook. Prep workĪs any chef will tell you, a large part of putting a great meal together is the prep work. It’s called the scratchpad, and it’s the draw.io sidekick you never knew you needed. Between the complete libraries provided by draw.io out of the box and the custom libraries you create, you can be covered for pretty much any diagramming situation.īut, between the out-of-the-box and custom library draw.io experience is another feature that can also make your life easier. In our last post, we talked about custom libraries and how they can personalize your draw.io experience so that you always have the right shapes close at hand for your current diagramming needs.
