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    Need a diagramming web app for your Chromebook? Check out Draw.io

    Kevin TofelBy Kevin TofelJanuary 24, 2020Updated:September 4, 2025No Comments2 Mins Read
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    I’ve been using a Chromebook for my college Computer Science classes to code for a year now. I was using a Pixel Slate but later upgraded to the highest configuration available for the Acer Chromebook Spin 13 with 16 GB of memory.

    Thanks to Linux app support, I have my choice of integrated development environments, code editors and other tools. This week, however, I was tasked to create a flowchart for an algorithm and wondered if there was a better online tool than Google Sheets to build it.

    I found several different options but eventually settled on Draw.io, a free browser based diagramming tool. It integrates with Google Drive as well as Microsoft One Drive and you can save diagrams locally as well.

    I find that the available range of elements alone makes Draw.io super useful. And there are plenty of advance options as you can see above as well.

    Diagramming isn’t just for flowcharts though.

    When starting a new diagram, Draw.io offers more than 100 different options and sub-options including Charts, Cloud diagrams, Network maps, and UML or Unified Modeling Language documents; something else I need to create from time to time in my classes.

    The Google Drive integration is awesome: I shared a flowchart with one of my classmates via a sharable link. When I changed my diagram, she saw the updates in near real-time. So there’s a collaboration aspect that adds value here as well.

    Again, there are a number of these types of tools available online. But Draw.io just got added to my Chromebook toolbox because it’s easy to use, powerful and has a broad array of diagram options.

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    After spending 15 years in IT at Fortune 100 companies, Kevin turned a hobby into a career and began covering mobile technology in 2003. He writes daily on the industry and has co-hosted the weekly MobileTechRoundup podcast since 2006. His writing has appeared in print (The New York Times, PC Magazine and PC World) and he has been featured on NBC News in Philadelphia.

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